Part of the address space is manufacturer specific; if you wanted to create collisions intentionally, it would be fairly trivial to narrow the range down to whoever makes X-Box ethernet chips.
Sure, there are plenty of people who write for nothing out there. Some of them are quite competant and interesting to read. But blogs are definitely what happens - irregular posts when someone finds something interesting, and almost purely opinion/what happened in my life. No investigate journalism.
What makes circumvention for fair use encumbering devices feasible is having them ubiquitous, because then you can buy all the laws you like, but no-one can enforce them (short of a War on Drugs, stick everyone in jail for five years for being caught with a sound card with digital outputs kind of regime). When only a small number of people can produce unencumbered information, it is trivial to get those people.
An nVidia supplied benchmark for their vapourware product which they hope will arrive before ATI clean their clock in the marketplace, where they currently have the fastest card.
The bottleneck for the target market for this product is not storage. Gamers are quite happy to take a break between levels while the maps spool off disk.
If this were a product aimed at video edit suites or database systems, you'd be correct.
No; one of the selling points Microsoft use when touting the X-Box to developers is that they can write the game once and then deploy on both PCs and the X-Box, whereas if they develop for the PS/2 or GameCube, they need to write the game again. They're leveraging the dominant position of Windows in the desktop market (where games need to be sold) to enhance their position in the console market.
This is the kind of thing that can be considered an abuse of monopoly power.
That's the whole point, though: under US law, there's nothing wrong with having a monopoly per se. That just means you're wildly successful and everyone wants your products.
There is something wrong with abusing that monopoly to shut out competition (denying people choice) or leveraging that monopoly to compete in other markets (eg, using the DirectX and Win32 API to compete in the games console market).
It also suggests that Microsoft could get hammered under various nations' anti-dumping laws, since it would appear they're selling goods at well under the cost of manufacture.
You'd be wrong. Windows has been using the 2D acceleration functions of graphics chips for years. Apple have only needed to use the 3D features because they've used more eye-candy.
I'm all for mocking the Yanks, even when their government is tramping around threatening to level everyone they don't like, but it should be noted that Bill Wyman is, in fact, English.
Ahh. So you're so pleased that "your side" won, you don't care about the substance of the policy they implment? Or did you vote for the Rpublicans as the party of opressive and intrusive government?
Politicians *love* idiots like you. A little posturing, and your vote comes to Papa...
The only consolation I have is that there are some kinds of laws that they simply can't pass without having them over-turned, because of the Consitution.
So you haven't been looking at the Supremem Court nomination process any time recently?
Soon the Supremems will be packed with the kind of judges Bush Jr wants. Remember, one of his qualifications is they believe in the right kind of religion, so it's hard to see justices being appointed based on jurisprudence generally or on constitutional issues specifically.
Unfortunately for Safire - and the rest of the United States - he's now feeling Barry Goldwater's pain. In fact, it ought to be horrifying to thinking Americans of the conservative persuasion that the line of pain about the Republican party has shifted from "what ails Barry Goldwater" to "what ails William Safire".
Broken? Something that has built and sustained a nation of 300 million for 277 years is broken?
Yes.
You could try looking at the Westminster system, which has provisions in the amendment process specifically to prevent bills from being sabotaged by amendments that attempt to introduce arrant nonsense or reverse the intent of the bill.
It works very well, and has done so for a lot longer than your Johnny-come-lately system.
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Ahh, good to see the Republicans have their talking heads laying the ground for blaming all of their failures for the next two years on having only almost complete control of the US government process, not absolute, dictatorial power.
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The problem, then, is a president who lacks the balls to just keep rejecting such legistlation until s/he gets sent something acceptable. The voters have the ability to correct that problem.
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The lack of a line item veto is that limit. If the legislative branch insists on sending unacceptable legislation to the executive, it doesn't get signed in to law.
Most of the impetus for line item vetos is from groups who want to do an end run around the US process to ensure their agenda gets passed without any modification from their opponents.
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Perfect description of content management systems...
Part of the address space is manufacturer specific; if you wanted to create collisions intentionally, it would be fairly trivial to narrow the range down to whoever makes X-Box ethernet chips.
Sure, there are plenty of people who write for nothing out there. Some of them are quite competant and interesting to read. But blogs are definitely what happens - irregular posts when someone finds something interesting, and almost purely opinion/what happened in my life. No investigate journalism.
You should try sticking your head out in the world beyond the US political track. Far left my arse.
Or perhaps reading the magazine. With such noted raving lefties like Andrew Sullivan as columnists...
And does slashdot make money?
Besides, slashdot exists parasitically. If everyone went the slashdot route, there'd be a vast sucking sound as they all went out of business.
You simply aren't going to make Lord of the Rings on consumer hardware with a bunch of people poking at models in their spare time.
At best, you end up with clunky-but-adorable indies like Clerks, Meet the Feebles, and Go Fish. At worst, you end up with crap.
That one person is very easy to send to jail.
What makes circumvention for fair use encumbering devices feasible is having them ubiquitous, because then you can buy all the laws you like, but no-one can enforce them (short of a War on Drugs, stick everyone in jail for five years for being caught with a sound card with digital outputs kind of regime). When only a small number of people can produce unencumbered information, it is trivial to get those people.
That's the whole point. If you'd read it, you'd understand you've already lost.
An nVidia supplied benchmark for their vapourware product which they hope will arrive before ATI clean their clock in the marketplace, where they currently have the fastest card.
Mmm. That's reliable.
The bottleneck for the target market for this product is not storage. Gamers are quite happy to take a break between levels while the maps spool off disk.
If this were a product aimed at video edit suites or database systems, you'd be correct.
No; one of the selling points Microsoft use when touting the X-Box to developers is that they can write the game once and then deploy on both PCs and the X-Box, whereas if they develop for the PS/2 or GameCube, they need to write the game again. They're leveraging the dominant position of Windows in the desktop market (where games need to be sold) to enhance their position in the console market.
This is the kind of thing that can be considered an abuse of monopoly power.
That's the whole point, though: under US law, there's nothing wrong with having a monopoly per se. That just means you're wildly successful and everyone wants your products.
There is something wrong with abusing that monopoly to shut out competition (denying people choice) or leveraging that monopoly to compete in other markets (eg, using the DirectX and Win32 API to compete in the games console market).
It also suggests that Microsoft could get hammered under various nations' anti-dumping laws, since it would appear they're selling goods at well under the cost of manufacture.
No force of US law in South America? Now *there* speaks someone majestically unaware of history.
It's only a matter of time before Venezuala joins the Axis of Evil if it keeps seeing off US backed coup attempts...
You'd be wrong. Windows has been using the 2D acceleration functions of graphics chips for years. Apple have only needed to use the 3D features because they've used more eye-candy.
Actually, at peak HT, it produces over 100.
I'm all for mocking the Yanks, even when their government is tramping around threatening to level everyone they don't like, but it should be noted that Bill Wyman is, in fact, English.
Ahh. So you're so pleased that "your side" won, you don't care about the substance of the policy they implment? Or did you vote for the Rpublicans as the party of opressive and intrusive government?
Politicians *love* idiots like you. A little posturing, and your vote comes to Papa...
So you haven't been looking at the Supremem Court nomination process any time recently?
Soon the Supremems will be packed with the kind of judges Bush Jr wants. Remember, one of his qualifications is they believe in the right kind of religion, so it's hard to see justices being appointed based on jurisprudence generally or on constitutional issues specifically.
Unfortunately for Safire - and the rest of the United States - he's now feeling Barry Goldwater's pain. In fact, it ought to be horrifying to thinking Americans of the conservative persuasion that the line of pain about the Republican party has shifted from "what ails Barry Goldwater" to "what ails William Safire".
Yes.
You could try looking at the Westminster system, which has provisions in the amendment process specifically to prevent bills from being sabotaged by amendments that attempt to introduce arrant nonsense or reverse the intent of the bill.
It works very well, and has done so for a lot longer than your Johnny-come-lately system.
Ahh, good to see the Republicans have their talking heads laying the ground for blaming all of their failures for the next two years on having only almost complete control of the US government process, not absolute, dictatorial power.
The problem, then, is a president who lacks the balls to just keep rejecting such legistlation until s/he gets sent something acceptable. The voters have the ability to correct that problem.
The lack of a line item veto is that limit. If the legislative branch insists on sending unacceptable legislation to the executive, it doesn't get signed in to law.
Most of the impetus for line item vetos is from groups who want to do an end run around the US process to ensure their agenda gets passed without any modification from their opponents.
You're way ahead of many of your countrymen having worked it out at 8.
But there should be...