What's funny is that most NH mountains are more prominent than anything in Colorado. Colorado is on a massive elevated plain, and what counts for "mountains" are dinky hills, which we have plenty of here in the Granite state, as well.
This is not the first time that Intel has ripped off a patent and just settled later.
The last time was Amberwave (they invented the methodology for building the wafers that Intel uses to make their chips) feel free to google "intel amberwave", the first hit is Intel news on the settlement.
Let's try this again. This is obviously bouncing hard off your skull, so perhaps several times might make it sink in.
Good luck getting AMD drivers for a new card (or even some old cards) to work under any distro at all at this point, without major headaches.
And crashes when you hit okay? Maybe you missed the big red exclamation marks that said the driver wasn't supported. Good job on the reading comprehension.
I don't think it's an "ease of use" issue, though for some it may be.
Ease of install on supported hardware... A chimpanzee could do it. For me that's a major "selling point" - I've done Red Hat since version 4, Slackware, Gentoo.. Ubuntu just works right out of the box if you have supported hardware.
However, I will say that some distros have to be tweaked and worked on to get the simple functionality you get with Ubuntu right out of the box.
This deserves a huge trollrating. Ubuntu is not responsible for the continuous, crashing, undeniable amateurism that AMD/ATI has been putting into their linux drivers for the last few years.
Nvidia Cards work flawlessly under Ubuntu and everything else.
I'm sorry, but this is simply false. Someone with your hardware configuration may have problems.
I've personally set up ubuntu on three machines with totally different configurations. One had an ATI video card. It went through Ubuntu, Slack, and Gentoo before I sold it off to build a new quadcore. ATI support, even with the new drivers, is horrible. Blame AMD for that, not Ubuntu.
There is almost no user intervention required for Ubuntu to be set up properly on supported hardware out of the box.
It's a worldwide marketplace. How many murderers do you think get their schtuff off ebay, anyway? There's no tracking.
Hell, I know military guys that get a lot of their stuff from ebay. This is mindless yellow journalism. How the hell was ebay to know, or the seller for that matter, that the buyer was going to use these perfectly legal items for bad?
The first thing I do whenever I get a new PC or a new client is remove the Symantec GARBAGE from it. The only thing that the company puts out that is remotely useful is Ghost, and even thay had to buy someone out to do it right. Pathetic claims, and even more pathetic business practices. Spybot works well for what it does and the PRICE can't be beat. Anyone that charges money for this sort of thing doesn't deserve any business, unless they can guarantee 90%+ protection. Since no one can do that, no one should be paid for it. It's ridiculous to claim Spybot, who pretty much started the entire arena, "corrupts ghost images" - maybe if Ghost wasn't broken since 2003 (it now copies live filesystems on the fly - most of you know this is a BAD idea), there wouldn't be a problem?
This is truly a sad, sad state of affairs when stupid, unresearched yellow journalism like this makes the front page of Slashdot. We have known for *years* about the cross licensing of patents between AMD and Intel. It's been reported ON THIS SITE.
I normally don't like to flame the editors, but this is nearly unforgivable.
KB obviously initiated the suit for declaratory judgement because of Infinium's actions. KB had no reason or right to otherwise. It's a basic "look the other way" ploy by Infinium.
As far as 'contact' with Texas, Infinium has apparently now retained counsel in Texas, so their 'contact' is now more than 'none at all'
As far as Federal vs State law, I'm unsure of the relevance of Texan law, as this is a Federal civil lawsuit.
I just read the motion to dismiss and supporting brief relating to the Texas suit. Infinium is not going to have much of a fun time in this suit. Their counsel are incompetent. I've yet to read anything prepared by [H]'s lawyers, but it's got to be better than the inane dribble that Infinium has sent to the Tx District Court. Misspellings, wrong words, never mind the fact that they're plainly disrespectful in some places, and oh, flat out wrong in some, too.
Is the RIAA prepared do defend itself against the eventual uprising that's coming its way? Torches and pitchforks aren't quite what they're going to get if they keep this up. They're stupid enough to start persecuting (yes, persecuting) family members of the wrong people and then it's going to get very ugly, very fast.
Stop supporting these extortionists. Stop buying labeled CDs. Stop buying DVDs. All you're doing is giving them more power.
IS when the RIAA hands a subpoena to one of our fine upstanding loony citizens. One of those people who puts all faith in teh intarweb and downloading free music, pr0n and moovies. Is the RIAA ready for Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kazinski? I hope so. They're really playing with fire now.
Not to mention the millions of armed Americans who also take their 'Civil Liberties' very personally. I wonder if the RIAA is ready for armed conflict. It should be interesting to watch, because they're not suing the dorks that sit in the dark with the 50TB raid anymore. They're suing everyone.
And he is using that crappy Swiftech block, which has a copper base and aluminum shroud. It'll probably corrode pretty quickly. Copper and aluminum work great for air coolers, though.
Sorry, but this has been on major hardware sites for two? three? weeks. Www.hardocp.com had an entire article on (and mostly started the hoopla over) this entire thing. Posting 3DMark scores to slashdot is a total waste of time anyway. There is no trusted system of comparison here. Most slashdot readers aren't hardcore performance nuts anyway. (Go ahead, be a troll or a classic weenie and take that statement out of context or whatever)
I just don't think this is the right forum for this type of story. Oh well.
The first interactive game was made on an oscilliscope by Higinbotham. The idea for an interactive game to be played by people at home on a TV was pong, written by Ralph Baer. Please see pong-story.com, and browse around.
I meant no disrespect to Ralf Baer. It's just that it's tough to keep a posting terse, when it's meant for a fast-changing news website like Slashdot. I suppose, rather than simply putting the phrase "father of video games" in quotes, which apparently didn't get the point across so well, I should have said something more like "considered by most the father..."
As for Pong, I specifically didn't call Nolan the "creator" of Pong for exactly this reason. He did bring it, and arcade games in general, to the masses. In that way, he is arguably the father of "video games" in a sense, since he pretty much started the video game "business" which we all know and... umm... love, I guess? (sigh)
You'll also notice the articles about Nolan that I pointed to said things like: "arguably the father of computer entertainment," "'I didn't invent the video game.... I just commercialized them,'" and "best known for bringing 'PONG'... to the masses." Ironically, it was the Wikipedia entry that was the most incorrect. (Of course, the nice thing about Wikipedia is that anyone with some spare time can fix that!)
Anyway, once again, I apologize for my terseness turning to a misleading statement. It's a tough line between being completely comprehensive, and being able to get something interesting actually posted on this damned site.;^)
Say 'hi' and 'sorry' to Ralf for me!
-bill! (wanders off in shame)
Don't be ashamed. It's more CowboyNeal that I had my beef with. Someone above noted that with a low four-digit UID that I should be used to it. I'll never get used to bad journalism. It's not right. Though this is the first time I've ever sent a complaint email:-)
But the articles are also indicative of a societal problem. We think the marketers of innovative products or ideas are the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet the true innovators, the scientists, get no credit.
I know Mr Baer personally, he is a close family friend from Manchester, NH. This story turned my stomach and I am disgusted that slashdot would EVER post such trash without researching a submission like this..
Slashdot Mirror
What's funny is that most NH mountains are more prominent than anything in Colorado. Colorado is on a massive elevated plain, and what counts for "mountains" are dinky hills, which we have plenty of here in the Granite state, as well.
You got that right.
Howdy from 501 (nee 121, 146 alum)
Computer...
End program.
This. Very fitting.
Rest In Peace.
The Original Series crew is slowly leaving us. It's a shame.
2.9 Billions dollars worldwide gross.
The studio owes the Tolkien Trust 218 Million dollars per the contract.
Lawyers should be signing on EN MASSE to get some of that shit, and I hope they win. New Line is a bunch of fucking thieves from what I'm seeing.
This is not the first time that Intel has ripped off a patent and just settled later.
The last time was Amberwave (they invented the methodology for building the wafers that Intel uses to make their chips) feel free to google "intel amberwave", the first hit is Intel news on the settlement.
Let's try this again. This is obviously bouncing hard off your skull, so perhaps several times might make it sink in.
Good luck getting AMD drivers for a new card (or even some old cards) to work under any distro at all at this point, without major headaches.
And crashes when you hit okay? Maybe you missed the big red exclamation marks that said the driver wasn't supported. Good job on the reading comprehension.
I don't think it's an "ease of use" issue, though for some it may be.
Ease of install on supported hardware... A chimpanzee could do it. For me that's a major "selling point" - I've done Red Hat since version 4, Slackware, Gentoo.. Ubuntu just works right out of the box if you have supported hardware.
However, I will say that some distros have to be tweaked and worked on to get the simple functionality you get with Ubuntu right out of the box.
This deserves a huge trollrating. Ubuntu is not responsible for the continuous, crashing, undeniable amateurism that AMD/ATI has been putting into their linux drivers for the last few years.
Nvidia Cards work flawlessly under Ubuntu and everything else.
I'm sorry, but this is simply false. Someone with your hardware configuration may have problems.
I've personally set up ubuntu on three machines with totally different configurations. One had an ATI video card. It went through Ubuntu, Slack, and Gentoo before I sold it off to build a new quadcore. ATI support, even with the new drivers, is horrible. Blame AMD for that, not Ubuntu.
There is almost no user intervention required for Ubuntu to be set up properly on supported hardware out of the box.
It's a worldwide marketplace. How many murderers do you think get their schtuff off ebay, anyway?
There's no tracking.
Hell, I know military guys that get a lot of their stuff from ebay. This is mindless yellow journalism. How the hell was ebay to know, or the seller for that matter, that the buyer was going to use these perfectly legal items for bad?
And the webby's cool too.
The first thing I do whenever I get a new PC or a new client is remove the Symantec GARBAGE from it. The only thing that the company puts out that is remotely useful is Ghost, and even thay had to buy someone out to do it right. Pathetic claims, and even more pathetic business practices. Spybot works well for what it does and the PRICE can't be beat. Anyone that charges money for this sort of thing doesn't deserve any business, unless they can guarantee 90%+ protection. Since no one can do that, no one should be paid for it. It's ridiculous to claim Spybot, who pretty much started the entire arena, "corrupts ghost images" - maybe if Ghost wasn't broken since 2003 (it now copies live filesystems on the fly - most of you know this is a BAD idea), there wouldn't be a problem?
Completely irresponsible and mindless work here.
This is truly a sad, sad state of affairs when stupid, unresearched yellow journalism like this makes the front page of Slashdot. We have known for *years* about the cross licensing of patents between AMD and Intel. It's been reported ON THIS SITE.
I normally don't like to flame the editors, but this is nearly unforgivable.
Goodbye Karma.
This is a good point, and a very interesting place to start thinking about what's really going on here.
KB obviously initiated the suit for declaratory judgement because of Infinium's actions. KB had no reason or right to otherwise. It's a basic "look the other way" ploy by Infinium.
As far as 'contact' with Texas, Infinium has apparently now retained counsel in Texas, so their 'contact' is now more than 'none at all'
As far as Federal vs State law, I'm unsure of the relevance of Texan law, as this is a Federal civil lawsuit.
I just read the motion to dismiss and supporting brief relating to the Texas suit. Infinium is not going to have much of a fun time in this suit. Their counsel are incompetent. I've yet to read anything prepared by [H]'s lawyers, but it's got to be better than the inane dribble that Infinium has sent to the Tx District Court. Misspellings, wrong words, never mind the fact that they're plainly disrespectful in some places, and oh, flat out wrong in some, too.
Motion to dismiss:
here
Is the RIAA prepared do defend itself against the eventual uprising that's coming its way? Torches and pitchforks aren't quite what they're going to get if they keep this up. They're stupid enough to start persecuting (yes, persecuting) family members of the wrong people and then it's going to get very ugly, very fast.
Stop supporting these extortionists. Stop buying labeled CDs. Stop buying DVDs. All you're doing is giving them more power.
So that way we can have something "legitimate" to share using Kazaa/etc.
What a load of monkey bollocks.
Welcome to *AA where everything we say is canon truth, or else we'll sue you!
IS when the RIAA hands a subpoena to one of our fine upstanding loony citizens. One of those people who puts all faith in teh intarweb and downloading free music, pr0n and moovies. Is the RIAA ready for Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kazinski? I hope so. They're really playing with fire now.
Not to mention the millions of armed Americans who also take their 'Civil Liberties' very personally. I wonder if the RIAA is ready for armed conflict. It should be interesting to watch, because they're not suing the dorks that sit in the dark with the 50TB raid anymore. They're suing everyone.
Get ready for some fireworks....
And he is using that crappy Swiftech block, which has a copper base and aluminum shroud. It'll probably corrode pretty quickly. Copper and aluminum work great for air coolers, though.
Sorry, but this has been on major hardware sites for two? three? weeks. Www.hardocp.com had an entire article on (and mostly started the hoopla over) this entire thing. Posting 3DMark scores to slashdot is a total waste of time anyway. There is no trusted system of comparison here. Most slashdot readers aren't hardcore performance nuts anyway. (Go ahead, be a troll or a classic weenie and take that statement out of context or whatever)
I just don't think this is the right forum for this type of story. Oh well.
Not quite.
The first interactive game was made on an oscilliscope by Higinbotham. The idea for an interactive game to be played by people at home on a TV was pong, written by Ralph Baer. Please see pong-story.com, and browse around.
I meant no disrespect to Ralf Baer. It's just that it's tough to keep a posting terse, when it's meant for a fast-changing news website like Slashdot. I suppose, rather than simply putting the phrase "father of video games" in quotes, which apparently didn't get the point across so well, I should have said something more like "considered by most the father..."
... I just commercialized them,'" and "best known for bringing 'PONG'... to the masses." Ironically, it was the Wikipedia entry that was the most incorrect. (Of course, the nice thing about Wikipedia is that anyone with some spare time can fix that!)
;^)
:-)
As for Pong, I specifically didn't call Nolan the "creator" of Pong for exactly this reason. He did bring it, and arcade games in general, to the masses. In that way, he is arguably the father of "video games" in a sense, since he pretty much started the video game "business" which we all know and... umm... love, I guess? (sigh)
You'll also notice the articles about Nolan that I pointed to said things like: "arguably the father of computer entertainment," "'I didn't invent the video game.
Anyway, once again, I apologize for my terseness turning to a misleading statement. It's a tough line between being completely comprehensive, and being able to get something interesting actually posted on this damned site.
Say 'hi' and 'sorry' to Ralf for me!
-bill!
(wanders off in shame)
Don't be ashamed. It's more CowboyNeal that I had my beef with. Someone above noted that with a low four-digit UID that I should be used to it. I'll never get used to bad journalism. It's not right. Though this is the first time I've ever sent a complaint email
But the articles are also indicative of a societal problem. We think the marketers of innovative products or ideas are the greatest thing since sliced bread, yet the true innovators, the scientists, get no credit.
The inventor of pong was Ralph Baer:
http://www.pong-story.com/rhbaer.htm
I know Mr Baer personally, he is a close family friend from Manchester, NH. This story turned my stomach and I am disgusted that slashdot would EVER post such trash without researching a submission like this..
Has it been five years? Damn. All the meept, Natalie Portman, First Posts, goat-ass, etc must have clouded the time. :-P
Well done Rob, Jeff and Nate, and the rest of you who joined on later. Here's to another five years!
Slainte!