One monitor that does less than the 10 monitors I could buy for the same price? Why? I can get 10 17" LCD monitors for the same price. I could arrange them in any sort of grid pattern I want, even factoring in the extra cost of video cards to drive them all, I still end up with WAY more screen realestate. So why would anyone need a single monitor that does this resolution, and not use multiple smaller, cheaper ones to acheive the same, if not better, resolution?
Why on earth would anyone want to use a DOS clone? I've seen companies use it on embedded controllers, etc... I don't understand why people can't let it die. If you need something really simple with little overhead, combine your app with the OS features you need. DOS isn't a good fit. If you need DOS for application support, then by God man, start porting the mission critical DOS app...
Don't know about US law... but I used a similar idea here in canada to try and sue the government into paying for the damage to my bike by going through a pothole.
The end result was, I still have to pay taxes for road repair, but the city is not at all liable for the road actually being in good enough condition that my bike isn't damaged by its use... even though I pay for it. I'm sure the university would use some similar logic... we're not responsible for any damage to your software/hardware, but you are if you mess with it...
It's called a no-win situation.. life is full of them... get used to it!;)
Patching the software doesn't expand hardware capabilities though, unless hardware sits unused until it is later enabled through a patch.
Hmm... remind anyone of Microsoft's Plus? I remember running beta versions of 98 that had all the features of Plus in it, only to find the RC's and final didn't have it, but for $50 bucks you could get MS Plus, which had all the features... If MS leverages this idea in the hardware realm, then use the DMCA to stop people from hacking it to get the hardware to work without paying them the $50 enhancement fee... they're rolling in money!
On that same note... do people go bankrupt in the next 48 hours? It's not really a dotcom business without an amazing fireball of destruction as investors realize that an internet operated toaster isn't going to make any money.
Sweet! Now I can quit my day job and be a search engine optimizer guy... Thanks for providing me with all the info I need to seperate thousands of people trying to be the 'next big thing' on the web from their money!:)
Seriously, I am sure at least 10 people will try and use the info in your links to rip someone off... it's a sad fact... but it's a fact.
That's what Nvidia has been banking on... the short term... they're the leader for like 2 weeks... what the hell is the point of looking at the short term? 50% market share short term means nothing... unless you define the length of the term... what is that, months/quarters/years?
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Tivo is available in Canada. It's just not allowed to be used. I purchased a Tivo, paid the duty, and then was told a month later that subscribing to DirecTv as a Canadian citizen was illegal. When I asked for my Duty to be refunded, they made it expressly clear that owning the tivo was legal... using it was not.
So, go ahead and buy a tivo, you won't be allowed to use it, but it is technically available in canada...
Except that I PAY for that stream... If they wanna screw around with the free stream that's at 96k, go for it... but the whole reason I pay is in order to get 160k, and be able to throw it on my iPod and listen to it at work (where I can't stream). Who in there right mind would subscribe to a stream that you could get for free if it wasn't for the ability to get high quality rips?
Actually this really sucks when ripping from DI.FM... I find that it cuts the song off too early, and starts the next song too early.
The one time I let it rip a channel for an entire day and ended up with every song being useless, unless I play it back in the same order DI did, as a good 3 second shift occured in every song compared to the ID3 tag being broadcast... pain in the ass!
Donate them to a charity. An MP3 server is really a waste of energy. I mean, come on... why not simply donate the pc to some charity that can give them to those less fortunate folks who could use them, and who don't need a P4 3.4ghz system to use email, do homework, and balance their checkbook...
The IRS has access to my taxes? The Canadian finance minister personally assured me that the IRS won't bug me about the $1200 I won in Vegas last year.
What do I do? OMG, they'll claim I didn't pay my taxes, and then prove that I funded some sort of newfie terrorist network, no, wait, some FRENCH terrorist network with that money, then I'll get a free trip to cuba... hmm... doesn't sound all that bad...
At this point, you might as well call the company orange... these april fools jokes are funny when they are reasonably real... that's what had me going 3 years ago on slashdot... but this is just stupid... Who's with me?
Someone coming out and admitting he made a mistake, but at the time was trying to do the best for his company deserves respect. We need more people like that in the industry!
This is slashdot, half (or more) of the people who read your post would not understand your analogy. Second, a woman suffering PMS will eventually stop suffering from PMS and thus be nice to be around again... The FCC never stops suffering...
Not if you would start two operating systemes at the same time at boot-time. The first OS sits in seperate smaller RAM and checks the OS-operations from the OS in the second RAM-unit. The first OS periodicaly checks for new virus signatures etc.
You didn't understand my point. If at ANY point the data is written to RAM that means it can be overwritten. No way around it... your suggestion simply makes it harder to get at the other OS, but it's possible since they still have to see each other. And if you somehow made it one way (where one OS can see the other, but not vice-versa), then the trick would be to reset the OS's and copy an infected version to wherever it's loaded from.
LMAO... you gotta be joking... if this were possible, do you think it wouldn't be in use by copy protection mechanisms and anti-piracy code in todays software? On a PC there is NO WAY to load something into memory and then make it truely read only. The fact that it was loaded at some point means it Absolutely has to be writable at some point... the trick is to get the PC into a state where it thinks it is still writable... protection circumvented.
Otherwise if they burned the program/data into ROM, then new exploits could not be patched without a physical upgrade to the PC... not good for antivirus companies, who have to update their info practically hourly...
Tell that to my employer... There are some of us that are forced to sit beside a bloody loud computer at ear height, and we can't move it anywhere. I might be the minority here, but I'd kill for a quieter PC (and I don't have an employer that would pay the insane price for watercooling my PC just for a little peace and quiet...)
If it's such an easy problem to fix, Why the hell haven't manufacturers fixed it? If it costs sooo little, why wouldn't manufacturers do it, just so they can put an extra marketing bullet on their boxes?
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One monitor that does less than the 10 monitors I could buy for the same price? Why? I can get 10 17" LCD monitors for the same price. I could arrange them in any sort of grid pattern I want, even factoring in the extra cost of video cards to drive them all, I still end up with WAY more screen realestate. So why would anyone need a single monitor that does this resolution, and not use multiple smaller, cheaper ones to acheive the same, if not better, resolution?
Why on earth would anyone want to use a DOS clone? I've seen companies use it on embedded controllers, etc... I don't understand why people can't let it die. If you need something really simple with little overhead, combine your app with the OS features you need. DOS isn't a good fit. If you need DOS for application support, then by God man, start porting the mission critical DOS app...
You're one smart cookie... but unfortunetly we're looking for a cracker...
Bada Boom!
Thanks folks, I'm here all week!
Don't know about US law... but I used a similar idea here in canada to try and sue the government into paying for the damage to my bike by going through a pothole.
;)
The end result was, I still have to pay taxes for road repair, but the city is not at all liable for the road actually being in good enough condition that my bike isn't damaged by its use... even though I pay for it. I'm sure the university would use some similar logic... we're not responsible for any damage to your software/hardware, but you are if you mess with it...
It's called a no-win situation.. life is full of them... get used to it!
Patching the software doesn't expand hardware capabilities though, unless hardware sits unused until it is later enabled through a patch.
Hmm... remind anyone of Microsoft's Plus? I remember running beta versions of 98 that had all the features of Plus in it, only to find the RC's and final didn't have it, but for $50 bucks you could get MS Plus, which had all the features... If MS leverages this idea in the hardware realm, then use the DMCA to stop people from hacking it to get the hardware to work without paying them the $50 enhancement fee... they're rolling in money!
On that same note... do people go bankrupt in the next 48 hours? It's not really a dotcom business without an amazing fireball of destruction as investors realize that an internet operated toaster isn't going to make any money.
So why don't we speak of "Avi movies" instead of DivX movies? They're rarely named MyMovie.divx, but instead MyMovie.avi.
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In this case, AVI is an encapsulation format... just like Ogg!
I dunno, maybe cuz it rolls off the tounge better! Can I have my prize now?
Why would I watch TV when I've got the real thing?
Dude, don't tell me you don't watch porn *with* your g/f... Oh wait... this is slashdot... you don't have the real thing in this case... my bad...
Optical storage is for wimps.
Real nerds memorize their data!
Hmm... so since I store my passwords on a post-it note on my monitor, I use must be using optical storage then?
Sweet! Now I can quit my day job and be a search engine optimizer guy... Thanks for providing me with all the info I need to seperate thousands of people trying to be the 'next big thing' on the web from their money! :)
Seriously, I am sure at least 10 people will try and use the info in your links to rip someone off... it's a sad fact... but it's a fact.
How about posting an article on slashdot? That will get you on google in no time flat!
That's what Nvidia has been banking on... the short term... they're the leader for like 2 weeks... what the hell is the point of looking at the short term? 50% market share short term means nothing... unless you define the length of the term... what is that, months/quarters/years?
Tivo is available in Canada. It's just not allowed to be used. I purchased a Tivo, paid the duty, and then was told a month later that subscribing to DirecTv as a Canadian citizen was illegal. When I asked for my Duty to be refunded, they made it expressly clear that owning the tivo was legal... using it was not.
So, go ahead and buy a tivo, you won't be allowed to use it, but it is technically available in canada...
Except that I PAY for that stream... If they wanna screw around with the free stream that's at 96k, go for it... but the whole reason I pay is in order to get 160k, and be able to throw it on my iPod and listen to it at work (where I can't stream). Who in there right mind would subscribe to a stream that you could get for free if it wasn't for the ability to get high quality rips?
Actually this really sucks when ripping from DI.FM... I find that it cuts the song off too early, and starts the next song too early.
The one time I let it rip a channel for an entire day and ended up with every song being useless, unless I play it back in the same order DI did, as a good 3 second shift occured in every song compared to the ID3 tag being broadcast... pain in the ass!
Of course it is nonsense... the russians barely have enough money to keep the country afloat, let alone spend on a manned trip to Mars.
That's almost as crazy as Bush wanting to send people to Mars... How about getting the deficit under control???
Donate them to a charity. An MP3 server is really a waste of energy. I mean, come on... why not simply donate the pc to some charity that can give them to those less fortunate folks who could use them, and who don't need a P4 3.4ghz system to use email, do homework, and balance their checkbook...
The IRS has access to my taxes? The Canadian finance minister personally assured me that the IRS won't bug me about the $1200 I won in Vegas last year.
What do I do? OMG, they'll claim I didn't pay my taxes, and then prove that I funded some sort of newfie terrorist network, no, wait, some FRENCH terrorist network with that money, then I'll get a free trip to cuba... hmm... doesn't sound all that bad...
At this point, you might as well call the company orange... these april fools jokes are funny when they are reasonably real... that's what had me going 3 years ago on slashdot... but this is just stupid... Who's with me?
Someone coming out and admitting he made a mistake, but at the time was trying to do the best for his company deserves respect. We need more people like that in the industry!
I've been waiting for IPv6 for years... I was still in HighSchool when they supposedly started the switch over... Man I feel old...
This is slashdot, half (or more) of the people who read your post would not understand your analogy. Second, a woman suffering PMS will eventually stop suffering from PMS and thus be nice to be around again... The FCC never stops suffering...
Not if you would start two operating systemes at the same time at boot-time. The first OS sits in seperate smaller RAM and checks the OS-operations from the OS in the second RAM-unit. The first OS periodicaly checks for new virus signatures etc.
You didn't understand my point. If at ANY point the data is written to RAM that means it can be overwritten. No way around it... your suggestion simply makes it harder to get at the other OS, but it's possible since they still have to see each other. And if you somehow made it one way (where one OS can see the other, but not vice-versa), then the trick would be to reset the OS's and copy an infected version to wherever it's loaded from.
LMAO... you gotta be joking... if this were possible, do you think it wouldn't be in use by copy protection mechanisms and anti-piracy code in todays software? On a PC there is NO WAY to load something into memory and then make it truely read only. The fact that it was loaded at some point means it Absolutely has to be writable at some point... the trick is to get the PC into a state where it thinks it is still writable... protection circumvented.
Otherwise if they burned the program/data into ROM, then new exploits could not be patched without a physical upgrade to the PC... not good for antivirus companies, who have to update their info practically hourly...
Tell that to my employer... There are some of us that are forced to sit beside a bloody loud computer at ear height, and we can't move it anywhere. I might be the minority here, but I'd kill for a quieter PC (and I don't have an employer that would pay the insane price for watercooling my PC just for a little peace and quiet...)
If it's such an easy problem to fix, Why the hell haven't manufacturers fixed it? If it costs sooo little, why wouldn't manufacturers do it, just so they can put an extra marketing bullet on their boxes?