There's a certain saaaardonic tone you have to read into my comments.;-)
That said, I did buy the 4800 because Deus Ex 2 and Half Life 2 (and Doom 3) were going to be out Real Soon Now, and my 32MB GF 2 MX 2000 was choking on Neverwinter Nights. More fool me, eh? From now on, it's back to my strategy of staying 6 months behind the curve in terms of both card and games.
Actually, if you bother to read the god damn article, you'll find that your 4600 (and my NV28 4800) beat the NV30 cards when the DX9 gubbins is turned off. Given that Valve are saying that it'll run on a DX6 or later card, it looks like this'll be a viable option for us poor bastards with 6 month old hardware.
>Coming is the day where the driver will optimize itself for all popular games, on-the-fly. What is wrong with that?
Um, because it's a crock of shit? It's not optimisation, it's trading quality for frame rate, without giving you a choice in the matter. If I click the boxes for Full Scene Auntie Alienating and Dodecahedral Filtering, I damn well expect the driver to do that, regardless of whether a given game runs at 2fps or not. If I want a higher frame rate, I can turn those options off myself.
I don't want the driver second guessing me, because it's not being done for my benefit, it's being done to scam gullible reviewers and sell more cards.
Copy right violation is not theft. You can be jailed for stealing one CD from a store. You cannot be jailed for copying every track in the RIAA's catalogue and then giving a copy to every human on the planet earth. Please don't spread the RIAA's FUD.
>Copyright violation is both a civil and criminal matter.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Cite me the statute that makes copy right infringement a criminal matter.
You'll find criminal penalties for abuse of cable service, for DMCA violations that allow you to violate copy right, and for other related activities. Now, cite me the law that says that unauthorised copying of copy righted material is a criminal action.
>American copyright law permits people to make copies of music for personal use, too
There is no such provision in copy right law. Can you quote it?
Big. Fucking. Mistake.
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ESR, Bruce, You Have Been Trolled. If there's nothing to deny, why are you denying it? Thus goes the thinking in the empty heads of the pointy haired idiots that buy SCOX every time they see the name mentioned in any context.
This letter, while factually correct, is over long, defensive and even a little whiny. It needs cut down to the last two paragraphs, minus the "Accordingly". There is nothing to negotiate, nothing to discuss, and - until and if SCO show us the code - nothing to defend.
Good point. If every school in the country bought an old film scanner cheap, that would, uh... drive up the price of second hand film scanners. The problem is that "know[ing] the right people". Every school has to know an independent right person.
It's like the regular Slashdot article on "How to build a reusable orbital launch vehicle for $12.75" based on parts bought on eBay. Sure, that's how you did it. Now that the cat's out of the bag, I'll be bidding against every excitable teen 1337 h4x0r with mommy's credit card.
The ten people here who have 4000 dpi film (not flatbed) scanners will be relieved to hear that they don't violate the laws of optics. Hmm, I wonder how much SCOX rose while I was reading this?
Let's keep our terms straight. It's copy right infringement. It's unauthorised duplication. That's actionable in a civil suit. But it's not theft, and it's not stealing, and it's not criminally actionable (unless you fall foul of the DMCA, but that's a seperate issue).
You know, the Romans used trained giraffes to rape people to death. Now, I'm not suggesting that we do that to the RIAA. I'm thinking that a sufficiently large and determined horse should be sufficient.
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>"It's OK to spend part of my day away from computers and the Internet."
Yeah, you say that. I'm not taking the risk.
There's a certain saaaardonic tone you have to read into my comments. ;-)
That said, I did buy the 4800 because Deus Ex 2 and Half Life 2 (and Doom 3) were going to be out Real Soon Now, and my 32MB GF 2 MX 2000 was choking on Neverwinter Nights. More fool me, eh? From now on, it's back to my strategy of staying 6 months behind the curve in terms of both card and games.
Ha, my 2 x SLI linked Voodoo 2's can still whup that piece of crap.
Actually, if you bother to read the god damn article, you'll find that your 4600 (and my NV28 4800) beat the NV30 cards when the DX9 gubbins is turned off. Given that Valve are saying that it'll run on a DX6 or later card, it looks like this'll be a viable option for us poor bastards with 6 month old hardware.
Yeah, I reckon my 3dfx Voodoo 2 would still kick both their assess if I could get updated drivers for it. Glide fucking ruled.
>Coming is the day where the driver will optimize itself for all popular games, on-the-fly. What is wrong with that?
Um, because it's a crock of shit? It's not optimisation, it's trading quality for frame rate, without giving you a choice in the matter. If I click the boxes for Full Scene Auntie Alienating and Dodecahedral Filtering, I damn well expect the driver to do that, regardless of whether a given game runs at 2fps or not. If I want a higher frame rate, I can turn those options off myself.
I don't want the driver second guessing me, because it's not being done for my benefit, it's being done to scam gullible reviewers and sell more cards.
Copy right violation is not theft. You can be jailed for stealing one CD from a store. You cannot be jailed for copying every track in the RIAA's catalogue and then giving a copy to every human on the planet earth. Please don't spread the RIAA's FUD.
>Copyright violation is both a civil and criminal matter.
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Cite me the statute that makes copy right infringement a criminal matter.
You'll find criminal penalties for abuse of cable service, for DMCA violations that allow you to violate copy right, and for other related activities. Now, cite me the law that says that unauthorised copying of copy righted material is a criminal action.
You fucker. I spat a mouthful of milk and banana onto my keyb$2r*7d
Well, it owns a fair part of it.
>American copyright law permits people to make copies of music for personal use, too
There is no such provision in copy right law. Can you quote it?
ESR, Bruce, You Have Been Trolled. If there's nothing to deny, why are you denying it? Thus goes the thinking in the empty heads of the pointy haired idiots that buy SCOX every time they see the name mentioned in any context.
This letter, while factually correct, is over long, defensive and even a little whiny. It needs cut down to the last two paragraphs, minus the "Accordingly". There is nothing to negotiate, nothing to discuss, and - until and if SCO show us the code - nothing to defend.
About 3 to 5 years in Federal pokey.
I may have dreamed it
Good point. If every school in the country bought an old film scanner cheap, that would, uh... drive up the price of second hand film scanners. The problem is that "know[ing] the right people". Every school has to know an independent right person.
It's like the regular Slashdot article on "How to build a reusable orbital launch vehicle for $12.75" based on parts bought on eBay. Sure, that's how you did it. Now that the cat's out of the bag, I'll be bidding against every excitable teen 1337 h4x0r with mommy's credit card.
Or what, Coward? You'll Anonymously shake your virtual fist at me again? Oooh, scary! Yeah, you, I'm talking to you. Come over here and make me.
The ten people here who have 4000 dpi film (not flatbed) scanners will be relieved to hear that they don't violate the laws of optics. Hmm, I wonder how much SCOX rose while I was reading this?
I was typing one handed, on the basis that I like whacking off while trash talking the Beast of Redmond.
I'm sorry, I don't get your point. What colour is it supposed to be?
Copy right infringement is not theft. See U.S. Supreme Court, DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985)
Let's keep our terms straight. It's copy right infringement. It's unauthorised duplication. That's actionable in a civil suit. But it's not theft, and it's not stealing, and it's not criminally actionable (unless you fall foul of the DMCA, but that's a seperate issue).
Whether [unauthorised copying is] stealing or not, is a matter of semantics
It's a matter of Supreme Court case law precedent.
Copyright infringement is not theft. Take it up with the Supreme Court.
Copyright infringement is not theft. See U.S. Supreme Court, DOWLING v. UNITED STATES, 473 U.S. 207 (1985)
Those wacky Supreme Court judges and their never never land.
That "some guy" being MichaelCrawford.
You know, the Romans used trained giraffes to rape people to death. Now, I'm not suggesting that we do that to the RIAA. I'm thinking that a sufficiently large and determined horse should be sufficient.