But even if it's a legit patent the licensing can be stiffling on it's own. All you do is murder innovation.
What's more likely? Finding a good use for MPEG technology or single handling inventing your own patent-free codec that works and meets market deadlines? 1$ per chip that uses MPEG is a bit excessive if the chip is meant to sell for cheap in volume.
Apple has a patent on how to implement matrix transposition in hardware...
I'm currently at work so I can't spend too much time doing patent searches [not related to job anyways] but do yourself a favour and just do a quick search for like
"software AND process AND implementation"
Some patents I just found
# 6,877,036
and
# 6,877,161
The latter sounds awfully alot like how position independent code works...
Have you performed a patent search in the last 15 years?...
People patent basically anything. I'd be surprised to learn that LibTomCrypt didn't violate at least a half dozen patents. Heck the kernel probably violates a good dozen or more.
Companies like MSFT and IBM patent every itty-bitty thing they do in the hopes of using it to crush competition. Oh, we put the chip on at an angle, must patent that because it will give us a 0.00001% market boost!! yes!!!
Simple. Be done with patents alltogether. Businesses have proved they can't use them properly anyways so the real harm here is that the smaller companies... MAY STAND A CHANCE....
Seriously, what's wrong with sex? It's something I'm told people do... arrg... and really "tv violence" amounts to REALLY POOR ACTING. 9 times out of ten you can see they missed the connection [e.g. for a kick or punch] and gun violence is about as hard as making a double whopper is hard for a teenager with an IQ of a double dozen....
Except the mail "FROM" address was forged and all you're doing is ANNOYING THE FUCK OUT OF OTHERS.
I get dozens upon dozens of "returned mail" in my yahoo.com account because people like that. I've contacted a few back and they're like "I didn't know you could forge an address..."
The best thing todo with spam is ignore it... COMPLETELY. Don't reply, don't return it and don't buy from it....
If you're paying for email access and still getting spam [on a high volume scale] then your ISP is simply... NOT DOING THEIR JOBs. If all they were was a bandwidth provider that'd be different but when they sell you email access as well... they should take it upon themselves to actually make the service useful.
Besides Dion is "quebecois..." stupid frogs [*] are to blame for her.
Tom
[*] Note: I hate people from Quebec not because they speak french [I speak it too anyways] but because... THEY'RE ASSHOLES. I've been to France and they're nothing alike. The assholelism that comes from Quebec is their own special brand.
"The difference is that I sold access to the product to *you*. I didn't sell it to your 15 friends. If you want that kind of an agreement, then purchase a different kind of license from me. If you want to be a reseller, then come to me as a reseller. Don't masquerade as an individual consumer and then go behind my back."
That's one view about it. But by this logic, Pepsi sold ME that 2L not my other movie buddies, etc...
Yeah, license/smicense. You know for a fact your ISP will rape your mother if it meant more money in the bank. ISPs rent bandwidth. Nothing more [that I care to see]. You're not "licensing" net access...
And really to the bottom line what does it matter? If they can afford 300KiB/sec @ $50/month what does it matter that 4 other people in your house are on the same feed? You still only have 300KiB/sec.
If 300KiB/sec costs more... charge more. But I think you'll find it really doesn't cost more and largely [like cell phones] the charges are inflated and imaginary.
If you sell bandwidth at a "loss"... *you* are anti-competitive to start with. What does it matter if I use 300KiB/sec or 15 friends each use 20KiB/sec?
Oh wait, you as the ISP are counting on me not using the connection... TOO FUCKING BAD!
I agree that having any person beaming a wifi signal with a kilowatt amplifier can wreck havoc for the rest of the community. On the flipside does it matter if adjoining neighbours share one connection?
Ok, what if an entire block agrees?...
Ok, what if an entire community agrees?...
Laws like this mean that you can't even progress it to that level. That the ISPs maintain the monopoly on network bandwidth, etc...
It's relevant within the same class. A 1Ghz and a 2Ghz K8 will have largely different performance figures on ALU/FPU related tasks (can you guess in favour of which?).
So when AMD releases a new K8 they want to tell you the clockrate since customers who already own K8 will want to know the difference.
Though you're right companies shouldn't use Hz as the measure against the competition. I don't think they do though. Well certainly Intel does but for AMD they largely let the reputation speak for itself...
As others pointed out keep in mind that a K8 is MUCH faster than a P4. For example, AES [the alg-ref-fast code] in pure C takes ~264 cycles/block on a Newcastle, with Intel's own C compiler it takes roughly 400 cycles/block on a Prescott.
So sure my Prescott (540J) has a 1.45x faster clock it also takes 1.51x longer to encrypt a block of text with AES.... 1.45x 1.51x... so even though my P4 has an entire ***1 Ghz*** on my AMD64 it still takes longer to AES encrypt data.
Not to mention that under load my AMD64 takes less power, makes less heat, etc...
Malware would be the "bonus added value" that your younger_brother/sister/mother installed on your computer along with real_player/real_arcade/other_silly_program/etc. Tom
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But even if it's a legit patent the licensing can be stiffling on it's own. All you do is murder innovation.
What's more likely? Finding a good use for MPEG technology or single handling inventing your own patent-free codec that works and meets market deadlines? 1$ per chip that uses MPEG is a bit excessive if the chip is meant to sell for cheap in volume.
Tom
Largely I ignore patents alltogether when I'm writing software. My logic being ... if *I* wrote it, it must be common knowledge. ;-)
But the sheer number of patents just renders them useless and the only ones to turn a profit are patent farms and lawyers..
Tom
Just do a credit system?
A patent means someone has to mention your name but doesn't pay you money.
E.g.
Intel Inside (tm) [Using technology from blah]
You'd still have the problem of frivolous patents but at least you don't have to pay to use them.
Which takes away the incentive for "patent farms" e.g. companies who only exist to horde patents.
And in the end the inventors still get credit which boosts their mindshare [e.g. free advertising].
Tom
Apple has a patent on how to implement matrix transposition in hardware...
I'm currently at work so I can't spend too much time doing patent searches [not related to job anyways] but do yourself a favour and just do a quick search for like
"software AND process AND implementation"
Some patents I just found
# 6,877,036
and
# 6,877,161
The latter sounds awfully alot like how position independent code works...
Tom
Have you performed a patent search in the last 15 years? ...
People patent basically anything. I'd be surprised to learn that LibTomCrypt didn't violate at least a half dozen patents. Heck the kernel probably violates a good dozen or more.
Companies like MSFT and IBM patent every itty-bitty thing they do in the hopes of using it to crush competition. Oh, we put the chip on at an angle, must patent that because it will give us a 0.00001% market boost!! yes!!!
Tom
Simple. Be done with patents alltogether. Businesses have proved they can't use them properly anyways so the real harm here is that the smaller companies... MAY STAND A CHANCE....
Tom
hehehe exactly. Largest patent owner in the world thinks there should be reform...
... what ... big companies shouldn't file OVER 10 PATENTS A DAY?
So
Tom
Dude, too soon. Wait till at least he's convicted and sent to prison ;-) ... man what a freak...
Zing!
... arrg ... and really "tv violence" amounts to REALLY POOR ACTING. 9 times out of ten you can see they missed the connection [e.g. for a kick or punch] and gun violence is about as hard as making a double whopper is hard for a teenager with an IQ of a double dozen. ...
Seriously, what's wrong with sex? It's something I'm told people do
Tom
"A full account of the pranks is located at ..." ... "has been located at" is the correct wording.
...
But even that sounds wrong since "locate" means to determine a specific area/place/etc...
I'd say
"has been stored at "
or
"has been made available through "
Tom
I find your lack of faith ... uh ...
oh who am I kiddin, I'm only going for the explosions and the boobifications....
Tom
Except the mail "FROM" address was forged and all you're doing is ANNOYING THE FUCK OUT OF OTHERS.
... NOT DOING THEIR JOBs. If all they were was a bandwidth provider that'd be different but when they sell you email access as well... they should take it upon themselves to actually make the service useful.
I get dozens upon dozens of "returned mail" in my yahoo.com account because people like that. I've contacted a few back and they're like "I didn't know you could forge an address..."
The best thing todo with spam is ignore it... COMPLETELY. Don't reply, don't return it and don't buy from it....
If you're paying for email access and still getting spam [on a high volume scale] then your ISP is simply
Tom
How many times do we have to apologize for them?
... THEY'RE ASSHOLES. I've been to France and they're nothing alike. The assholelism that comes from Quebec is their own special brand.
Besides Dion is "quebecois..." stupid frogs [*] are to blame for her.
Tom
[*] Note: I hate people from Quebec not because they speak french [I speak it too anyways] but because
is == present
... "I am worked" ... etc...
released == past
Really that simple.
Put this another way, with that grammar you could write
"The post is wrote"
You could alternatively say "$NOUN was released" but normally you qualify that with a time, e.g. "was released today."
"has been released." indicates a sense of time... e.g. "very recent past".
Tom
"$NOUN is released" is poor English because the tense and verb do not agree.
....
"$NOUN has been released."
Is proper.
Or
"$NOUN is available for release."
(tenative)
Or
"$NOUN has been made available for release."
(past tense)
Anyways, it's a bad habit since I tend to write that as well...
Tom
"The difference is that I sold access to the product to *you*. I didn't sell it to your 15 friends. If you want that kind of an agreement, then purchase a different kind of license from me. If you want to be a reseller, then come to me as a reseller. Don't masquerade as an individual consumer and then go behind my back."
That's one view about it. But by this logic, Pepsi sold ME that 2L not my other movie buddies, etc...
Yeah, license/smicense. You know for a fact your ISP will rape your mother if it meant more money in the bank. ISPs rent bandwidth. Nothing more [that I care to see]. You're not "licensing" net access...
And really to the bottom line what does it matter? If they can afford 300KiB/sec @ $50/month what does it matter that 4 other people in your house are on the same feed? You still only have 300KiB/sec.
If 300KiB/sec costs more... charge more. But I think you'll find it really doesn't cost more and largely [like cell phones] the charges are inflated and imaginary.
Tom
If you sell bandwidth at a "loss" ... *you* are anti-competitive to start with. What does it matter if I use 300KiB/sec or 15 friends each use 20KiB/sec?
...
...
Oh wait, you as the ISP are counting on me not using the connection... TOO FUCKING BAD!
I agree that having any person beaming a wifi signal with a kilowatt amplifier can wreck havoc for the rest of the community. On the flipside does it matter if adjoining neighbours share one connection?
Ok, what if an entire block agrees?
Ok, what if an entire community agrees?
Laws like this mean that you can't even progress it to that level. That the ISPs maintain the monopoly on network bandwidth, etc...
Tom
WTF is a word processor? I write documents in LaTeX ;-)
What, his program can't read a DVI?
Tom
You know what's next...
Scantron Essays!
Tom
"If CPU speed is irrelevant to processor power"
... 1.45x 1.51x ... so even though my P4 has an entire ***1 Ghz*** on my AMD64 it still takes longer to AES encrypt data.
It's relevant within the same class. A 1Ghz and a 2Ghz K8 will have largely different performance figures on ALU/FPU related tasks (can you guess in favour of which?).
So when AMD releases a new K8 they want to tell you the clockrate since customers who already own K8 will want to know the difference.
Though you're right companies shouldn't use Hz as the measure against the competition. I don't think they do though. Well certainly Intel does but for AMD they largely let the reputation speak for itself...
As others pointed out keep in mind that a K8 is MUCH faster than a P4. For example, AES [the alg-ref-fast code] in pure C takes ~264 cycles/block on a Newcastle, with Intel's own C compiler it takes roughly 400 cycles/block on a Prescott.
So sure my Prescott (540J) has a 1.45x faster clock it also takes 1.51x longer to encrypt a block of text with AES.
Not to mention that under load my AMD64 takes less power, makes less heat, etc...
Tom
Quite the contrary. The more red tape there is the more organized, fluid and stable the process will become. /sarcasm
Tom
Except they wouldn't have a signed CA cert for citibank.com
And smart people should check the certificate before loging in.
Tom
Malware would be the "bonus added value" that your younger_brother/sister/mother installed on your computer along with real_player/real_arcade/other_silly_program/etc.
Tom
touche. ;-)
Tom
Run Firefox on Gentoo as a non-root user on an AMD64 in 64-bit mode.
Nobody writes software [in binary only form] let alone viruses for that platform...
[Anyone know of a flash plugin that actually works in 64-bit mode? I've tried gflash and the default macromedia ones...]
Tom