"If you have a point, why don't you grow some balls and make it?"
That was a stupid thing to say, and you are a stupid person for saying it.
And he made his point ages ago, you just keep reiterating the same thing. Sun Tzu says you should seek victory THEN seek battle, that those who seek battle then seek victory will lose. Reiterating the same thing, after it's been discounted half a dozen times is battle without any chance of victory.
Sun Tzu says "You didn't have to say that to prove yourself worthy of winning teh prize. You win a blue internets."
Hey, I'm a creator of contemporary entertainment (Admittedly ***NOT*** mass media, or even popular), and I assure you that the only thing I get out of it is high blood pressure and an empty bank account. Not everyone needs to make money on their works.:)
If it's a gift horse they're making gads of money off of then it's not a gift horse.
That said, I just don't buy or listen to commercial music. I don't like paying for lawsuits against single mothers and children. You could say I was just brought up wrong.
I'd have no problem seeing the ad-based web dissapear. The stuff that remains would be made by people who actually give a damn about what they're doing, people who are willing to suffer a little bit and actually give up something to make a website they want to create.
Hosting isn't that expensive compared the the cost incurred globally by malicious advertisers who think our PCs are theirs to wreck because we visited a website.
Flash is wonderfully cross-platform. Even OS/2 Warp had an up to date version for quite a while. I'm not sure if they still do, but I'd trust it on more platforms than I would Java for web stuff.
History seems to disprove you. My first "good" video card was an S3 Savage4 GT, one of the weakest cards of the era unless you kept well away from it's fill rate. It lasted several years despite it's initial crappiness. My second was a Geforce 2 MX 200, which I got for 50 bucks -- I never had a problem running anything. Later on I upgraded my computer to a brand new nforce based system so I upgraded the video too. I ran a Geforce 4 MX, one of the weakest cards of the era I bought it in, and only relatively recently did it become a detriment to playing modern games acceptably at some detail level. I've also got a Radeon 9250 which is absolutely ancient(it's a powered down Radeon 8500 -- think back to when that card came out), and I'm still able to play almost every game out there (Oblivion needs hacks, mind you, but that's because Bethesda are retards.)
You're never more than 100 bucks from playing modern games these days. Your statements are factually incorrect.
You're missing an important point here: It's not IBM prolonging the lawsuit, but SCO. They are the ones extending this lawsuit time and time again, thus they are the ones responsible for increasing the legal fees they're spending.
Besides, you're a troll for completely disregarding the morality issues here. If Microsoft was suing Rambus for their shenanigans, or even better, fighting back against a frivilous claim being made, you can bet Slashdotters would be backing Microsoft. A few slashdotters are pie in the sky idealists, but most are pragmatists, and thus can come to decisions based on the situation at hand, rather than a few cliches.
I dunno, I use overrated sometimes for comments that are just tripe, but not for any of the reasons mentioned in moderation. I'll do it sometimes when I see posts that are factually incorrect, for example.
There's an idea -- I want a supercollider in my computer so I can store data by altering the atomic weights of the atoms in a disk!
Wait a minute...For some reason, I started screaming uncontrollably when I wrote that for an hour. Maybe it's becuase of the thought of having a cyclotron built into every computer. Maybe it's because I don't like the thought of a disk crash taking out a few city blocks, and a write operation taking a small nuclear reactor to power...
Would you have said the same thing about companies working on CDs and DVDs before they became popular?
The only real problem with this format is it's been in development for well over a decade and the whole time it's been "almost ready, hope to have it going by this year".
Daimon Matt is widely known as the ugliest Ferengi in the universe with ears that even make a womans look large in comparison. His coming was foretold by People Magazine, but at the time Humans hadn't achieved interstellar travel yet, so it was a shock to pretty much everyone. Hundreds of years later, the author of the writer (made immortal by technology), would say "I warned you, but nobody listens to the terrans, do they!"
Oh noes! Rambus is in trouble now!Surely, with this ruling, they'll lose relevance in the PC market where there bread and butter lies, leading to DDR over.....
Oh...Douchey company long past its prime gets hit a bit harder? Move along, nothing to see here.
There's a third option, you know: Just having your own opinions based on actual facts and reasoning, rather than their position in some imaginary rainbow of politics.
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"If you have a point, why don't you grow some balls and make it?"
That was a stupid thing to say, and you are a stupid person for saying it.
And he made his point ages ago, you just keep reiterating the same thing. Sun Tzu says you should seek victory THEN seek battle, that those who seek battle then seek victory will lose. Reiterating the same thing, after it's been discounted half a dozen times is battle without any chance of victory.
Sun Tzu says "You didn't have to say that to prove yourself worthy of winning teh prize. You win a blue internets."
Hey, I'm a creator of contemporary entertainment (Admittedly ***NOT*** mass media, or even popular), and I assure you that the only thing I get out of it is high blood pressure and an empty bank account. Not everyone needs to make money on their works. :)
If it's a gift horse they're making gads of money off of then it's not a gift horse.
That said, I just don't buy or listen to commercial music. I don't like paying for lawsuits against single mothers and children. You could say I was just brought up wrong.
I'd have no problem seeing the ad-based web dissapear. The stuff that remains would be made by people who actually give a damn about what they're doing, people who are willing to suffer a little bit and actually give up something to make a website they want to create.
Hosting isn't that expensive compared the the cost incurred globally by malicious advertisers who think our PCs are theirs to wreck because we visited a website.
DUDE. You're gettin' a Dell!
(And every one of those artists was lame)
So we've got oversaturated picture and super vasoline on the lens picture. Your MySpace visual effects won't work on me!
No evidence indicates that great artists are EVER healthy and alert while making their best works.
For example, I point you to Saint Anger by Metallica; their "Ok, we're getting old and gave up drinking and drugs" album.
If there was ever a reason to support music sharing, it's the 25 bucks I wasted on that terrible album.
I want Wierd Al's vocal chords in a tupperware container!
...Because Yogurt is a vegitable!
Then you'll still use MS word, like 99.9% of the scientific and engineering world.
Just because something is harder doesn't make it better.
Flash is wonderfully cross-platform. Even OS/2 Warp had an up to date version for quite a while. I'm not sure if they still do, but I'd trust it on more platforms than I would Java for web stuff.
Sounds like you've never had to deal with the result if IE security.
Good for you. STFU N00B.
I love it. The site is down, but the article is google cached. ^ ^
History seems to disprove you. My first "good" video card was an S3 Savage4 GT, one of the weakest cards of the era unless you kept well away from it's fill rate. It lasted several years despite it's initial crappiness. My second was a Geforce 2 MX 200, which I got for 50 bucks -- I never had a problem running anything. Later on I upgraded my computer to a brand new nforce based system so I upgraded the video too. I ran a Geforce 4 MX, one of the weakest cards of the era I bought it in, and only relatively recently did it become a detriment to playing modern games acceptably at some detail level. I've also got a Radeon 9250 which is absolutely ancient(it's a powered down Radeon 8500 -- think back to when that card came out), and I'm still able to play almost every game out there (Oblivion needs hacks, mind you, but that's because Bethesda are retards.)
You're never more than 100 bucks from playing modern games these days. Your statements are factually incorrect.
Disregard my other comment. You're obviously a paid astroturfer. Good day.
You're missing an important point here: It's not IBM prolonging the lawsuit, but SCO. They are the ones extending this lawsuit time and time again, thus they are the ones responsible for increasing the legal fees they're spending.
Besides, you're a troll for completely disregarding the morality issues here. If Microsoft was suing Rambus for their shenanigans, or even better, fighting back against a frivilous claim being made, you can bet Slashdotters would be backing Microsoft. A few slashdotters are pie in the sky idealists, but most are pragmatists, and thus can come to decisions based on the situation at hand, rather than a few cliches.
I dunno, I use overrated sometimes for comments that are just tripe, but not for any of the reasons mentioned in moderation. I'll do it sometimes when I see posts that are factually incorrect, for example.
Google doesn't do the conversion. I'm quite upset.
"1GB in Libraries of Congress" didn't come up with an answer! This is a bug!
There's an idea -- I want a supercollider in my computer so I can store data by altering the atomic weights of the atoms in a disk!
Wait a minute...For some reason, I started screaming uncontrollably when I wrote that for an hour. Maybe it's becuase of the thought of having a cyclotron built into every computer. Maybe it's because I don't like the thought of a disk crash taking out a few city blocks, and a write operation taking a small nuclear reactor to power...
Would you have said the same thing about companies working on CDs and DVDs before they became popular?
The only real problem with this format is it's been in development for well over a decade and the whole time it's been "almost ready, hope to have it going by this year".
First you make it work, THEN you make it small.
If you try to get a new technology to exit the birthing process completely ready to sell, you're going to overwhelm your poor engineers.
Daimon Matt is widely known as the ugliest Ferengi in the universe with ears that even make a womans look large in comparison. His coming was foretold by People Magazine, but at the time Humans hadn't achieved interstellar travel yet, so it was a shock to pretty much everyone. Hundreds of years later, the author of the writer (made immortal by technology), would say "I warned you, but nobody listens to the terrans, do they!"
Oh noes! Rambus is in trouble now!Surely, with this ruling, they'll lose relevance in the PC market where there bread and butter lies, leading to DDR over.....
Oh...Douchey company long past its prime gets hit a bit harder? Move along, nothing to see here.
Actually, I'm showing that left vs. right is arbitrary, and falling prey to it is the best example of anti-intellectual intellectual elitism on earth.
There's a third option, you know: Just having your own opinions based on actual facts and reasoning, rather than their position in some imaginary rainbow of politics.