They arent refusing to serve anyone, they are refusing to go out of their way to cater to a particular type of customer. If an asian came into the restaurant and demanded they cook him a specific dish, should the restaurant be required to cook that dish at extra cost to themselves?
I develop on Windows at work (XP Pro), and my system has an uptime into multiple months. So long as you arent a bigotted asshole, its not hard to accomplish.
I think you need to reread my post, I didnt claim that you could make a card DX10 compatable, I said it would work under DX10 with new drivers - and thats 100% true.
Drivers for Windows XP et al wont work under Vista because the model has changed, and thus current generation of cards wont work unless theres a new Vista driver for them. Get a Vista driver and you are fine and dandy, running under DX10 regardless of whether the card supports DX10 specific functionality or not.
The post I was replying to had the false assumption that you had to buy new hardware for Vista, that DX9 cards wouldnt ever work under Vista, and that is false.
DX10 will not be available for any Windows version prior to Vista because the driver model in Vista has changed substantially, so drivers for XP et al wont work. If your card has a Vista compatable driver, then it will work under DX10 - and because Nvidia roll all their cards drivers up into one neat package, once they release a Vista driver for one, chances are it will work for their entire range.
Your older card will work fine under Vista and DX10 once the drivers are available.
Thats an inflated price, Dell et al pay about $30 a copy and thats the price you pay in the total cost of the machine. See http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=118
In the UK they are regulated as a 'electronic money institution' under the Financial Services Authority, so Im happy. These regulations cover Paypals entire European business arm.
Also, I must be one of their rare happy customers - two weeks ago somehow my Paypal account was compromised and several thousand USD was transfered around, with no fuss at all every single one of those transactions have been reversed at no cost to myself. All it took was 20 minutes to a local rate number, no queues, very helpful Irish call handlers.
Tibet is a complex situation because China never renounced its claim to sovereignty over the area, and indeed sovereignty was recognised in several post independance treaties by external countries between 1912 and 1960.
Your view of the world is not valid in pretty much all western civilisation. Get a new view. You have no inherent right to products or services just because I cannot make change. If you think this is different, find me a law which says so.
In short, no. In long, I wish Slashdotters would actually read the laws that they assume 'protects' them before commenting on them. Sheesh, Im not even American and I bet I know more about American Copyright Law than most American Slashdotters, purely because I read it before discussing it. Hint - Fair Use is not as wide ranging as some on this site seem to believe, even leaving the DMCA out of the equation for simplicities sake.
Who gets that worked up about software? Seriously, some people are like that both ways, just because its a corporation doesnt mean it cant have people defend it of their own accord.
I think the occurance of paid shills is something thats been far overblown on Slashdot because its an easy way to explain away those people who have a vastly different opinion about corporations - they just *have* to be paid to have the opinion they put forward, theres no other explanation at all.
Next time you see football fans or baseball fans etc going wild over their team and defending their teams honour, remember that 9 times out of 10, that team is incorporated and just as much a business as Microsoft is.
This isnt a demonstration of IBMs 'self restraint' - if they were to 'unleash the patent dragon', as it were, they would be sued back to the stone age under antitrust law. Again.
Make no mistake, IBM is not your friend, they just let you live for the time being because its less bother for them that way.
Perhaps its because Vista users dont have OSx as an upgrade option without buying a complete new system and replacing all their apps - at least with Vista I can run it on my current 18 month old system and run the vast majority of my apps on it.
Much as people like to tout it, OSX is not an option for the typical windows market. And Im saying this as a 3 year OSX switcher who uses an iMac as his main desktop and a Macbook as his laptop.
What benefit does a 64bit architecture have for web browsing? Why would running a web browser in 32bit mode have any negative effect on uptake of 64bit OSes?
How many root exploits have been found for this driver, and how many have been found for opensource elements of the kernel while this driver has existed? Touting this as a reason to drop the closed source driver is nothing but politics and fearmongering, you guys should know better.
While books have many advantages, ebooks can have some advantages over them. For example, you list 'they contain both the data and everything necessary to read it' as an advantage, but they dont include light - an ebook reader can (not sure if this one does, but my PDA sure does) which means I can read an ebook in many more places. An Ebook reader allows you to carry hundreds with you, take your entire library on holiday and not have to worry about planning the third book you will read by the pool.
Dont get me wrong, I still read normal books but my preference is these days to get an ebook, and no the DRM aspect doesnt bother me in the slightest.
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They arent refusing to serve anyone, they are refusing to go out of their way to cater to a particular type of customer. If an asian came into the restaurant and demanded they cook him a specific dish, should the restaurant be required to cook that dish at extra cost to themselves?
I develop on Windows at work (XP Pro), and my system has an uptime into multiple months. So long as you arent a bigotted asshole, its not hard to accomplish.
I think you need to reread my post, I didnt claim that you could make a card DX10 compatable, I said it would work under DX10 with new drivers - and thats 100% true.
Drivers for Windows XP et al wont work under Vista because the model has changed, and thus current generation of cards wont work unless theres a new Vista driver for them. Get a Vista driver and you are fine and dandy, running under DX10 regardless of whether the card supports DX10 specific functionality or not.
The post I was replying to had the false assumption that you had to buy new hardware for Vista, that DX9 cards wouldnt ever work under Vista, and that is false.
No, you have it wrong.
DX10 will not be available for any Windows version prior to Vista because the driver model in Vista has changed substantially, so drivers for XP et al wont work. If your card has a Vista compatable driver, then it will work under DX10 - and because Nvidia roll all their cards drivers up into one neat package, once they release a Vista driver for one, chances are it will work for their entire range.
Your older card will work fine under Vista and DX10 once the drivers are available.
The Core series of chips runs extremely happily at over 70C, I routinely have my Macbook maxed out at between 70C and 80C when encoding video.
Thats an inflated price, Dell et al pay about $30 a copy and thats the price you pay in the total cost of the machine. See http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=118
In the UK they are regulated as a 'electronic money institution' under the Financial Services Authority, so Im happy. These regulations cover Paypals entire European business arm.
Also, I must be one of their rare happy customers - two weeks ago somehow my Paypal account was compromised and several thousand USD was transfered around, with no fuss at all every single one of those transactions have been reversed at no cost to myself. All it took was 20 minutes to a local rate number, no queues, very helpful Irish call handlers.
Tibet is a complex situation because China never renounced its claim to sovereignty over the area, and indeed sovereignty was recognised in several post independance treaties by external countries between 1912 and 1960.
Your view of the world is not valid in pretty much all western civilisation. Get a new view. You have no inherent right to products or services just because I cannot make change. If you think this is different, find me a law which says so.
It does however give me the option of stopping it going elsewhere, and TPM has thus far never kept me from my information.
I can use TPM to protect my own data. Hows that not a good use, or are you suggesting that the entire world be allowed to copy and distribute my data?
As the GP said, its a tool that in itself is neither good nor evil, anyone who tries to label it as such has a political aim. Its as evil as the GPL.
While anti-IP culture has people like you touting it, it doesnt stand a chance. Congratulations on being the destroyer of your own point.
Last night ChronoPay were not accepting VISA.
Allofmp3.com was recently dropped by VISA, so its getting harder to get funds into your account to make purchases with.
In short, no. In long, I wish Slashdotters would actually read the laws that they assume 'protects' them before commenting on them. Sheesh, Im not even American and I bet I know more about American Copyright Law than most American Slashdotters, purely because I read it before discussing it. Hint - Fair Use is not as wide ranging as some on this site seem to believe, even leaving the DMCA out of the equation for simplicities sake.
Who gets that worked up about software? Seriously, some people are like that both ways, just because its a corporation doesnt mean it cant have people defend it of their own accord.
I think the occurance of paid shills is something thats been far overblown on Slashdot because its an easy way to explain away those people who have a vastly different opinion about corporations - they just *have* to be paid to have the opinion they put forward, theres no other explanation at all.
Next time you see football fans or baseball fans etc going wild over their team and defending their teams honour, remember that 9 times out of 10, that team is incorporated and just as much a business as Microsoft is.
This isnt a demonstration of IBMs 'self restraint' - if they were to 'unleash the patent dragon', as it were, they would be sued back to the stone age under antitrust law. Again.
Make no mistake, IBM is not your friend, they just let you live for the time being because its less bother for them that way.
Yes, because people cant have opinions that differ from yours....
Perhaps its because Vista users dont have OSx as an upgrade option without buying a complete new system and replacing all their apps - at least with Vista I can run it on my current 18 month old system and run the vast majority of my apps on it.
Much as people like to tout it, OSX is not an option for the typical windows market. And Im saying this as a 3 year OSX switcher who uses an iMac as his main desktop and a Macbook as his laptop.
What benefit does a 64bit architecture have for web browsing? Why would running a web browser in 32bit mode have any negative effect on uptake of 64bit OSes?
Sounds like the reflow issue Firefox had with the old Slashdot layout. Try forcing a reflow by moving the font size up one and then back again.
The new plan to protect our children! Sod bubblewrap, put enough layers of fat on them and they become bouncy!
How many root exploits have been found for this driver, and how many have been found for opensource elements of the kernel while this driver has existed? Touting this as a reason to drop the closed source driver is nothing but politics and fearmongering, you guys should know better.
While books have many advantages, ebooks can have some advantages over them. For example, you list 'they contain both the data and everything necessary to read it' as an advantage, but they dont include light - an ebook reader can (not sure if this one does, but my PDA sure does) which means I can read an ebook in many more places. An Ebook reader allows you to carry hundreds with you, take your entire library on holiday and not have to worry about planning the third book you will read by the pool.
Dont get me wrong, I still read normal books but my preference is these days to get an ebook, and no the DRM aspect doesnt bother me in the slightest.
Problem is every supplier can be pressurised, its not a case of the US being the only supplier.