You're just annoyed because you openly vetted money into a system that is not properly set up.
NEWSFLASH, you're a sucker.
Anyone who "trusts" ebay needs to re-evaluate their situation. I remember when eBay was new and the first thought that popped into my mind was "that's a scam." Even before there were reported cases of fraud and abuse.
And frankly, if you AGREE to pay upto $35 and end up paying that, where is the fraud?
If you walk into a car dealer and say "I'm willing to spend between $7000 and $20000" they're going to try and show you all the $20000 cars first. Which is why you always cap your spending at dealers, e.g. "I have $8000 to spend tops" and then work from there. Saves them time too and generally they'll be quicker to get you sold [e.g. waste less time on cars you told them you can't afford, even if in reality you could].
It's called capitalism [sadly]. Again, if you think it's only worth [say] $15, then only bid $15. If he outbids you on his own widget, he pays the ebay fees and then tries again. At which point you ignore the seller and find another.
Don't bid more than you want to pay for the item. I get what you are saying, but the way I look at it, you look at a deal on ebay and say "neato, worth $X dollars to me." You then bid $X and only $X. If you lose, so be it. Putting a higher upper cap is just inviting people raise the stakes, especially since it's automatic in many cases.
At most, I'd re-bid manually only after evaluating the case.
What I don't get is the rush to pass them. Should just be round-robin through the owners. So even if you submit 9000 patents today, only one will be looked at before looking at the others.
That way if a company feels the need to apply for a shiatload of patents they'll get the joy of knowing they won't get looked at anytime soon.
Anyone who is not really annoyed at the state of patents should try googles patent search. Enter any trivially understood idea like "task scheduling" or "integer multiplication" and have fun reading patents about blatently obvious ideas.
hey they have a lot of legitimate patents, like the one for the task scheduler (cron jobs). There is absolutely no prior art (UNIX) for that before MSFT came around.:-)
Companies like MSFT/IBM/etc shouldn't get patents, not because they don't invent anything, but because they invent so little and patent so much.
The hardware world scares me though. On the one had they collaborate as academics to share results, and on the other hand they patent everything in sight. No, you can't have an XOR gate, not yours!
What compels you to update and change things regularly?
If your mythbox "just works" and isn't exposed to the outside world, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE. People like you make bad admins, regardless of OS or distro.
As for the haters, Gentoo is not the be all of Distros, but let's not pretend that the other distros are perfect mmm'kay? Gentoo is what it is. Requires effort and gives the users lots of choices on how things are configured. If you are willing to pay the price [of taking the time to set it up] you are rewarded with a flexible OS.
Otherwise, plomp that knoppix/fedora CD in and use the software as configured by other people.
What about commercial flights then? I flew for AMD a couple dozen times. Are all those trips "gifts"? I don't think so [definitely not!!!].
I think not all gestures are taxable, otherwise things would get really confusing.
As for the dude who caught the ball, if he doesn't sell it, he has a net income of the value of a baseball. It's only taxable when he sells it and nets an income. If the IRS claimed that just getting the ball would be taxable, they would have to assess the value. If you don't sell it, it has no value, hence no taxation (beyond the $3 a baseball goes for).
I got my stash of mp3s and dvds already. I'd rather sit back and watch society slowly destroy itself.
It isn't like people really take the hippie goals of OSS and FSF [and the like] to heart anyways. The vast majority of OSS users tend to be commercial shops that use it just because it's cheap, not because it's libre. Worse yet, they use it to support the development of proprietary software/hardware (example: IBM uses it to develop DB2 which is proprietary).
Frankly I think society as a whole is a lost cause. I suggest folk just get a comfy lawn chair and watch the ensuing madness.
I ran my C2Ds overclocked by at least 1GHz [both a E6300 and E6600] with stock voltage. I only turned by E6600 down to 3GHz [600MHz overclock, and yes, I can measure the diff between stock and oc rates] because the northbridge was getting a bit too warm for my liking.
I suspect staying in their TDP won't be a big stretch, especially as the design/process matures.
It may be partially because of yield, but when essentially all parts are overclockable... it starts to smell fishy.
I've had two C2D processors [E6300 and E6600] and both were massively overclockable [1.83GHz => 2.94GHz and 2.4GHz => 3.42GHz respectively] with stable results. The only actual flakey part of the equation was the hot northbridge. If they upped the multipliers in the chips from 9 to 12 I suspect most E6600s, for instance, would be fine. Something tells me in the near future we'll see a bunch of above-3GHz chips just in the "nick of time" to beat AMD.
I should point out that Gates is rich *on paper*. I imagine if MSFT stock instantly folded he wouldn't be a happy camper.
Agreed though, I doubt any of the execs of MSFT give two shits about random infractions of the law. They act with impunity all the time anyways. Just makes their eventual demise even more tasty. [Hint: I bet the Enron folk didn't think they'd go down either]
1. Start off making low budget films/productions 2. As you get known you post an ultimatum: I collect $X dollars [through orders, payments whatever] or the movie never sees production 3. Once you get $X dollars you release the product for all to see
If you're any decent people will pay to have you release the product. This encourages people to vote with their money directly to what they see.
Yes, but when you see a big film cost $300 million to make, most of that goes to the exec/studio and the top actors, the possibly hundreds of other actors in the film get jack squat.
Imagine if EVERYONE took a fair pay. Your $300 million dollar movie now costs say $10 million [tops] which means the ticket sales required to recoup it is much less.
My point is a useful mobo requires ports, at least when comparing it to typical home use gear. Granted this is probably meant to be deeply embedded somewhere people don't see it. But if you're going to compare it to ATX [or similar] then you need physical ports not just pinouts.
Sounds like a good idea in practice but then how do you deal with things that cost $1.27 or something. Do you round down? Hell no. Do you round up to $1.50? But then that adds up for the individual but also has secondary impacts (e.g. cost of living increases).
The more rational solution is to phase out the standard size penny and issue a smaller penny. Smaller means less material, means it will cost less.
The EU and UK do this for instance. I imagine lots of other nations do as well.
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You're just annoyed because you openly vetted money into a system that is not properly set up.
NEWSFLASH, you're a sucker.
Anyone who "trusts" ebay needs to re-evaluate their situation. I remember when eBay was new and the first thought that popped into my mind was "that's a scam." Even before there were reported cases of fraud and abuse.
And frankly, if you AGREE to pay upto $35 and end up paying that, where is the fraud?
Tom
No it's cheap and annoying but not fraud.
If you walk into a car dealer and say "I'm willing to spend between $7000 and $20000" they're going to try and show you all the $20000 cars first. Which is why you always cap your spending at dealers, e.g. "I have $8000 to spend tops" and then work from there. Saves them time too and generally they'll be quicker to get you sold [e.g. waste less time on cars you told them you can't afford, even if in reality you could].
It's called capitalism [sadly]. Again, if you think it's only worth [say] $15, then only bid $15. If he outbids you on his own widget, he pays the ebay fees and then tries again. At which point you ignore the seller and find another.
Tom
Don't bid more than you want to pay for the item. I get what you are saying, but the way I look at it, you look at a deal on ebay and say "neato, worth $X dollars to me." You then bid $X and only $X. If you lose, so be it. Putting a higher upper cap is just inviting people raise the stakes, especially since it's automatic in many cases.
At most, I'd re-bid manually only after evaluating the case.
Tom
ok, but why put 35 if you're only willing to pay 15? If you really only want to pay 15 for it, put 15 as your max.
Then there is no "taking advantage" of the max bid process.
The problem is people like you bid before you think, then you end up paying more for things then you really wanted to.
So sad.
Tom
What I don't get is the rush to pass them. Should just be round-robin through the owners. So even if you submit 9000 patents today, only one will be looked at before looking at the others.
That way if a company feels the need to apply for a shiatload of patents they'll get the joy of knowing they won't get looked at anytime soon.
Anyone who is not really annoyed at the state of patents should try googles patent search. Enter any trivially understood idea like "task scheduling" or "integer multiplication" and have fun reading patents about blatently obvious ideas.
Tom
hey they have a lot of legitimate patents, like the one for the task scheduler (cron jobs). There is absolutely no prior art (UNIX) for that before MSFT came around. :-)
Companies like MSFT/IBM/etc shouldn't get patents, not because they don't invent anything, but because they invent so little and patent so much.
The hardware world scares me though. On the one had they collaborate as academics to share results, and on the other hand they patent everything in sight. No, you can't have an XOR gate, not yours!
Tom
What compels you to update and change things regularly?
If your mythbox "just works" and isn't exposed to the outside world, JUST LEAVE IT ALONE. People like you make bad admins, regardless of OS or distro.
As for the haters, Gentoo is not the be all of Distros, but let's not pretend that the other distros are perfect mmm'kay? Gentoo is what it is. Requires effort and gives the users lots of choices on how things are configured. If you are willing to pay the price [of taking the time to set it up] you are rewarded with a flexible OS.
Otherwise, plomp that knoppix/fedora CD in and use the software as configured by other people.
Tom
Only pay what you can afford and what you think something is worth. If a seller out bids you on their own product. Fine, let them keep it.
Personally, I avoid eBay like a plague. it's got sucker written all over it.
Tom
What about commercial flights then? I flew for AMD a couple dozen times. Are all those trips "gifts"? I don't think so [definitely not!!!].
I think not all gestures are taxable, otherwise things would get really confusing.
As for the dude who caught the ball, if he doesn't sell it, he has a net income of the value of a baseball. It's only taxable when he sells it and nets an income. If the IRS claimed that just getting the ball would be taxable, they would have to assess the value. If you don't sell it, it has no value, hence no taxation (beyond the $3 a baseball goes for).
It's my ticket though, just because it lets them fly doesn't mean they own it.
I could see if it were tangible, like I sent them cash to buy a ticket, they could use it for other things instead.
Bah, tax annoys me. Repeated taxation infuriates me. down with the man!!!
No free spaceflight?
/me confused
If I buy someone a plane ticket to come visit me, they're not taxed for it as income.
If Oracle buys this dude a spaceflight, why should he pay tax on it?
I got my stash of mp3s and dvds already. I'd rather sit back and watch society slowly destroy itself.
It isn't like people really take the hippie goals of OSS and FSF [and the like] to heart anyways. The vast majority of OSS users tend to be commercial shops that use it just because it's cheap, not because it's libre. Worse yet, they use it to support the development of proprietary software/hardware (example: IBM uses it to develop DB2 which is proprietary).
Frankly I think society as a whole is a lost cause. I suggest folk just get a comfy lawn chair and watch the ensuing madness.
Tom
I ran my C2Ds overclocked by at least 1GHz [both a E6300 and E6600] with stock voltage. I only turned by E6600 down to 3GHz [600MHz overclock, and yes, I can measure the diff between stock and oc rates] because the northbridge was getting a bit too warm for my liking.
I suspect staying in their TDP won't be a big stretch, especially as the design/process matures.
Tom
It may be partially because of yield, but when essentially all parts are overclockable ... it starts to smell fishy.
I've had two C2D processors [E6300 and E6600] and both were massively overclockable [1.83GHz => 2.94GHz and 2.4GHz => 3.42GHz respectively] with stable results. The only actual flakey part of the equation was the hot northbridge. If they upped the multipliers in the chips from 9 to 12 I suspect most E6600s, for instance, would be fine. Something tells me in the near future we'll see a bunch of above-3GHz chips just in the "nick of time" to beat AMD.
Tom
rich != happy.
I mean like any other rich person why stop at your first billion when you can MULTIPLE BILLIONS!
I think if the stock flatlined it'd still piss him off despite the tangible sssets he has.
Tom
I should point out that Gates is rich *on paper*. I imagine if MSFT stock instantly folded he wouldn't be a happy camper.
Agreed though, I doubt any of the execs of MSFT give two shits about random infractions of the law. They act with impunity all the time anyways. Just makes their eventual demise even more tasty. [Hint: I bet the Enron folk didn't think they'd go down either]
Tom
I have friends both at Broadcom and Qualcomm, and I've been in both of their HQs [stealing free lunch].
Tom's rooting for the public in this one.
Tom
The way any other business starts. Government grants, business loans, and lots of credit cards.
... it's called the interweb.
As for distributed
Duh.
Tom
A completely alternative model would be this:
1. Start off making low budget films/productions
2. As you get known you post an ultimatum: I collect $X dollars [through orders, payments whatever] or the movie never sees production
3. Once you get $X dollars you release the product for all to see
If you're any decent people will pay to have you release the product. This encourages people to vote with their money directly to what they see.
Tom
Yes, but when you see a big film cost $300 million to make, most of that goes to the exec/studio and the top actors, the possibly hundreds of other actors in the film get jack squat.
Imagine if EVERYONE took a fair pay. Your $300 million dollar movie now costs say $10 million [tops] which means the ticket sales required to recoup it is much less.
Tom
Ain't the "pirates" it's the 19th century business model they're clinging to.
Tip: Actors/Execs aren't worth the millions they're paid, and the everyday copyright infringement is proving that.
Tom
My point is a useful mobo requires ports, at least when comparing it to typical home use gear. Granted this is probably meant to be deeply embedded somewhere people don't see it. But if you're going to compare it to ATX [or similar] then you need physical ports not just pinouts.
Tom
I could have been writing a witty /. retort!!!
oh wait...
Tom
Right, that's 7 seconds of my life I'll never get back.
Tom
Sounds like a good idea in practice but then how do you deal with things that cost $1.27 or something. Do you round down? Hell no. Do you round up to $1.50? But then that adds up for the individual but also has secondary impacts (e.g. cost of living increases).
The more rational solution is to phase out the standard size penny and issue a smaller penny. Smaller means less material, means it will cost less.
The EU and UK do this for instance. I imagine lots of other nations do as well.
Tom