loading a lot of very heavy individual things that require dexterity, but it seems like such a specific application
That's not "specific", it's about as vague as it gets. If you don't have to design for particular tool sets, and can make 100-lb things as generically manipulable as 1-lb things, you've saved enormously from concept to EOL. It could change the way all sorts of things look.
Considering how the idea of god has fucked up tens of billions of lives, wasting hundreds of Trillions of dollars of productivity and quality of life, it's worth a couple dozen $billion to straighten that fact out.
You mean they give me the knowledge I paid $14 billion for them to get. Ain't no "freely" about that. And someone ended up with that $14 billion, and will get the knowledge as well. If I'm not deliberately volunteering to effort the discovery, then I want my cut of both. But if I choose, I can download the program and run it for shits 'n giggles. If that's all the value I find in it.
I don't get this. Why would anyone care if Linux gets a shot at the desktops of big companies? It's not like free software is liable to make a bunch of money from being there. Or at all. It's the 0-cost solution, and being on more desktops won't change that. And it won't get improved faster just because it's there. The bug-reporting base is pretty mature by now. And, as I said, there won't be a lot of money coming in to create anything like and "investment" in it.
It's on my desktop. Well, this one of my desktops. That's enough for it to be alive. It really doesn't matter if General Mills or Kodak or First Solar or Lehman Bros. (what? oh, uh, just e.g. that one, then) has it. Doesn't make shit-all of a difference to most people who use it now.
When you can get me a cellphone with a 4Kx4K screen, never mind one the size of a twin bed, then I'll think you have a clue about this "future of gaming is mobile" nonsense.
I haven't read it either, but I think it should probably be overturned unless there's evidence for the extortion charge other than just doing a lot of it at once.
Extortion is about threatening harm to someone to get something you aren't owed. That's certainly a reasonable charge if I threaten to sue someone who doesn't owe me anything and I offer to take a small sum of cash rather than put them through the cost of a trial.
But if I own a patent and I see others selling products containing that idea, I'm owed royalties. The fact that there are a lot of infringers and I'm willing to settle immediately instead of demanding more and insisting on going to court to get it means I'm the good guy in the situation.
It's all about whether my case had merit. Maybe this guy's case didn't, for most of his targets.
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Did they get all the HIV out?
Are they sure?
Did they nuke it from orbit, or something?
loading a lot of very heavy individual things that require dexterity, but it seems like such a specific application
That's not "specific", it's about as vague as it gets. If you don't have to design for particular tool sets, and can make 100-lb things as generically manipulable as 1-lb things, you've saved enormously from concept to EOL. It could change the way all sorts of things look.
Wasted?
I want one of those things so bad I can smell it.
I wonder if they'll bundle it with a minigun...
Yup. That pulldown looked like it felt like 35 lbs.
Killbot gets shot: replace with another $100-million killbot.
Man in exoskeleton gets shot: replace with another $11k/year man.
Don't think they don't do that kind of math at the Pentagon. It's why it's there.
0 vs .99
My refusal to pay for smartphone games is infinitely more better than your refusal to pay too much for console games.
That's only because Nintendos don't run Angry Birds.
Me being in the pub beats both of them at their own game. I'm spending money on things.
They still have a Pac-Man machine in that pub?
Wow. I want to be a /. contributor with nothing to say! It's supa-kool!
It proves there's no god.
Considering how the idea of god has fucked up tens of billions of lives, wasting hundreds of Trillions of dollars of productivity and quality of life, it's worth a couple dozen $billion to straighten that fact out.
You don't really find particles in a bubble chamber. You just see the track they took through the the medium.
The Higgs isn't the only particle that "disappears" in a collision then "reappears" as a spray of decay products.
Here's an example of a Kaon taking us on a short trip into mystery before turning into counter-curving Pions.
So I grok you.
I was using the CUDA "we".
And it's being done by...Germans.
If the company can't handle the consequences of its actions, it shouldn't act.
You mean they give me the knowledge I paid $14 billion for them to get. Ain't no "freely" about that. And someone ended up with that $14 billion, and will get the knowledge as well. If I'm not deliberately volunteering to effort the discovery, then I want my cut of both. But if I choose, I can download the program and run it for shits 'n giggles. If that's all the value I find in it.
I don't get this. Why would anyone care if Linux gets a shot at the desktops of big companies? It's not like free software is liable to make a bunch of money from being there. Or at all. It's the 0-cost solution, and being on more desktops won't change that. And it won't get improved faster just because it's there. The bug-reporting base is pretty mature by now. And, as I said, there won't be a lot of money coming in to create anything like and "investment" in it.
It's on my desktop. Well, this one of my desktops. That's enough for it to be alive. It really doesn't matter if General Mills or Kodak or First Solar or Lehman Bros. (what? oh, uh, just e.g. that one, then) has it. Doesn't make shit-all of a difference to most people who use it now.
Or if there were an inductive charging solution that worked if you put the phone next to a lamp cord...
If we find a single Higgs Boson, it will be.
Only if they also create a portal to the deposit window at my bank and start pumping their profits into it.
I only work for free when I enable it.
We're gonna need a smaller boat.
Why can't it just be a bug in the slashcode itself? Huhn? Never though o' that, didja?
I suspect you've missed a few stories.
Haha. "Toxic spill."
The yolk's on them!
Dear Arm,
When you can get me a cellphone with a 4Kx4K screen, never mind one the size of a twin bed, then I'll think you have a clue about this "future of gaming is mobile" nonsense.
Until then, keep respawning, n00b.
I haven't read it either, but I think it should probably be overturned unless there's evidence for the extortion charge other than just doing a lot of it at once.
Extortion is about threatening harm to someone to get something you aren't owed. That's certainly a reasonable charge if I threaten to sue someone who doesn't owe me anything and I offer to take a small sum of cash rather than put them through the cost of a trial.
But if I own a patent and I see others selling products containing that idea, I'm owed royalties. The fact that there are a lot of infringers and I'm willing to settle immediately instead of demanding more and insisting on going to court to get it means I'm the good guy in the situation.
It's all about whether my case had merit. Maybe this guy's case didn't, for most of his targets.