Anything can be expected for people who are so arrogant that they believe they can "own" ideas. Which, after all, was never what the patent system was supposed to be about in the first place.
Damn, and I was about to publish my study about the link between video game playing and breathing! 100% of gamers I have interviewed actually breathe between 10-20 times per minute. My interviews with non breathers at the local cemetery was a disaster, but I noticed that none of them play games! I think I'm on to something.
I've been in several earthquakes, the largest being 7.8, and I've never heard the "earth roar". My most recent was earlier this month in Costa Rica, where I live.
I've heard my house rattling, I've seen things falling off my tables and walls. But the only time I've heard the earth "roar" was while watching Hollywood movies of earthquakes.
Perhaps if you were just a little older, you would remember when all Japan could do was copy Western technology. However today Japan can innovate. Give China another 30 years, and then watch out!
It's not worth the effort when a console provides a much smoother experience.
I think that's the whole point. They want you to move to a console.
Case in point, I just went back to the US earlier this month after an absence of several years. Computer stores that used to have entire back walls full of PC games have reduced to half an aisle, and most of their games are multiple facings of the latest WoW release, or other "guaranteed" sale items. There's no variety anymore, in the PC section. Meantime much more space has been given to the various consoles, each of them having more space than that for PC's.
There's a very obvious trend here. And that's too bad since not all PC games are brainless shooters. Oh well, hopefully Paradox won't scrub Hearts of Iron III...
No way in hell should FTP or BitTorrent have the same priority as VoIP.
Yes because you calling your grandmother to chit chat using VoIP is far more important than me sending Magnetic Resonance Imaging files to India via FTP.
That is exactly the kind of argument you will be dragged into the minute you choose one thing over another. You just can't make generalizations over which type of traffic is more "important".
Turns out that repeated concussions can result in depression, insomnia, and the beginnings of something that looks a lot like Alzheimer's. "The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone,"
But this has been fairly obvious since Mohammed Ali...
Did anyone ever really consider the fact that it is a newer OS that is doing MORE than XP?
Why yes, I did consider that perhaps this OS is constantly informing Microsoft of everything I do, tracking my credit card purchases and reading my email - but are you telling me it's true?
Seriously, computers are so fast nowadays that any OS that can noticeably slow down your computer due to overhead is probably extremely badly written, or doing all sorts of nasty things (like "trusted computing", or encrypting DRM related media to keep out out the the hands of those filthy terro^H^H^H hackers, perhaps?) that you probably wouldn't want it doing anyway.
But then again anything is possible for the company that created the self-expiring 30GB Zune.
It's cute the way you pretend that the law of supply and demand doesn't exist.
You're the one who fails to understand supply and demand.
Please tell me where the free market price is, when supply is infinite (ie, in the case of digital media which can be copied and downloaded as often as you like)? Oh, that's right, with finite demand (there are, after all, only 6.odd billion people on the planet) and infinite supply, the price is driven down - to ZERO. P2P is a cheap way of shifting the supply curve to the right. And since a legitimate copy is just as good as an illegitimate one for the consumers, the demand stays the same. So the price moves to a new equilibrium - $0.00.
You can't really beat supply and demand, you just have to understand it. What the RIAA want to do is artificially limit the supply, in order to keep the prices higher. Well, good luck with that. Madonna earns around $1BN (yes BILLION) dollars per year from her concerts. I really don't think piracy is putting her in the poorhouse.
The RIAA need to stop wasting limited court resources on these frivolous lawsuits, and embrace the power of the internet to make sure their artists' concerts are filled, at $200+ per ticket. After all, you'll only fork out that much for a concert ticket if you have HEARD the music and actually LIKE it.
17,000 downloads may not equal 17,000 lost sales, but even the most fanatical people here would agree there are probably some lost sales there, right? 100 sales? 500? Maybe even 1,000?
How about zero?
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it any less valid than all the other numbers you are creating out of thin air.
Steven Chu has somehow found time to make a major breakthrough in the world of atom interferometry.
Hardly surprising really. Everyone knows how this happens - the graduate students do all the grunk-work and (insert up and coming scientific powerhouse name here) stea^H^H^H^H takes the credit. Business as usual in the science world.
Are you saying that the tiny percentage of the general population which is gay is so much better/more productive than the 99.99% of the other population it doesn't matter if you hurt the 99.99%
Please explain how allowing homosexuals to marry "hurts" non homosexuals?
Slashdot Mirror
What do you mean? This satellite is a shoe... and it's expected to de-orbit over Texas in the near future.
Anything can be expected for people who are so arrogant that they believe they can "own" ideas. Which, after all, was never what the patent system was supposed to be about in the first place.
Damn, and I was about to publish my study about the link between video game playing and breathing! 100% of gamers I have interviewed actually breathe between 10-20 times per minute. My interviews with non breathers at the local cemetery was a disaster, but I noticed that none of them play games! I think I'm on to something.
Ask George Soros who has billions.
HAD...
OK, I admit it, he's still very rich and has much more money than you or me, but EVERYONE has taken a hit last year...
No, it was more like "when are you going to start treating us as equals?"
I've been in several earthquakes, the largest being 7.8, and I've never heard the "earth roar". My most recent was earlier this month in Costa Rica, where I live.
I've heard my house rattling, I've seen things falling off my tables and walls. But the only time I've heard the earth "roar" was while watching Hollywood movies of earthquakes.
a power plant fueled entirely by whiskey by-products.
How they're planning on fueling a plant with drunkards without breaking the law is beyond me...
PS: It's a JOKE (for the humor impaired).
China does not have innovation. Unlike Japan,
Perhaps if you were just a little older, you would remember when all Japan could do was copy Western technology. However today Japan can innovate. Give China another 30 years, and then watch out!
Hell, we insult sitting Presidents,
Nah, it's no fun now that Bush is gone...
I guess with a name like that as a kid he took all the teasing that he's going to take
What? Why would anyone make fun of old Bummy-ball?
a program that analyzes a person's voice to pick out stress/hesitation/etc.
OMG you mean that MTV show is REAL?
heh
...sdrawkcab saw ti ylnO
Meh, considering the stock is at around $0.62 cents, there's not much money to be made shorting it. The time to do THAT was last year...
I'd love to see the government brought down a couple of notches.
They're doing a perfectly good job all on their own.
It's not worth the effort when a console provides a much smoother experience.
I think that's the whole point. They want you to move to a console.
Case in point, I just went back to the US earlier this month after an absence of several years. Computer stores that used to have entire back walls full of PC games have reduced to half an aisle, and most of their games are multiple facings of the latest WoW release, or other "guaranteed" sale items. There's no variety anymore, in the PC section. Meantime much more space has been given to the various consoles, each of them having more space than that for PC's.
There's a very obvious trend here. And that's too bad since not all PC games are brainless shooters. Oh well, hopefully Paradox won't scrub Hearts of Iron III...
No way in hell should FTP or BitTorrent have the same priority as VoIP.
Yes because you calling your grandmother to chit chat using VoIP is far more important than me sending Magnetic Resonance Imaging files to India via FTP.
That is exactly the kind of argument you will be dragged into the minute you choose one thing over another. You just can't make generalizations over which type of traffic is more "important".
(Playing the Devil's advocate for the tobacco industry in a rather tongue in cheek fashion)
But smoking doesn't cause cancer. Most of our smokers die from heart disease long before they can get cancer...
Turns out that repeated concussions can result in depression, insomnia, and the beginnings of something that looks a lot like Alzheimer's. "The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone,"
But this has been fairly obvious since Mohammed Ali...
Sign on a Google desk:
"The chair stops HERE"
Why yes, I did consider that perhaps this OS is constantly informing Microsoft of everything I do, tracking my credit card purchases and reading my email - but are you telling me it's true?
Seriously, computers are so fast nowadays that any OS that can noticeably slow down your computer due to overhead is probably extremely badly written, or doing all sorts of nasty things (like "trusted computing", or encrypting DRM related media to keep out out the the hands of those filthy terro^H^H^H hackers, perhaps?) that you probably wouldn't want it doing anyway.
But then again anything is possible for the company that created the self-expiring 30GB Zune.
No, they used the following algorithm:
if (expected_court_cost > requested settlement amount){
settle();
} else {
fight_this();
}
It's cute the way you pretend that the law of supply and demand doesn't exist.
You're the one who fails to understand supply and demand.
Please tell me where the free market price is, when supply is infinite (ie, in the case of digital media which can be copied and downloaded as often as you like)? Oh, that's right, with finite demand (there are, after all, only 6.odd billion people on the planet) and infinite supply, the price is driven down - to ZERO. P2P is a cheap way of shifting the supply curve to the right. And since a legitimate copy is just as good as an illegitimate one for the consumers, the demand stays the same. So the price moves to a new equilibrium - $0.00.
You can't really beat supply and demand, you just have to understand it. What the RIAA want to do is artificially limit the supply, in order to keep the prices higher. Well, good luck with that. Madonna earns around $1BN (yes BILLION) dollars per year from her concerts. I really don't think piracy is putting her in the poorhouse.
The RIAA need to stop wasting limited court resources on these frivolous lawsuits, and embrace the power of the internet to make sure their artists' concerts are filled, at $200+ per ticket. After all, you'll only fork out that much for a concert ticket if you have HEARD the music and actually LIKE it.
17,000 downloads may not equal 17,000 lost sales, but even the most fanatical people here would agree there are probably some lost sales there, right? 100 sales? 500? Maybe even 1,000?
How about zero?
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it any less valid than all the other numbers you are creating out of thin air.
Steven Chu has somehow found time to make a major breakthrough in the world of atom interferometry.
Hardly surprising really. Everyone knows how this happens - the graduate students do all the grunk-work and (insert up and coming scientific powerhouse name here) stea^H^H^H^H takes the credit. Business as usual in the science world.
Are you saying that the tiny percentage of the general population which is gay is so much better/more productive than the 99.99% of the other population it doesn't matter if you hurt the 99.99%
Please explain how allowing homosexuals to marry "hurts" non homosexuals?