This could lead to some really bad economic decision. eBay is not a fair marketplace, especially in areas like this. We're operating in the extreme portion of the demand curve here. These extremely rare (unless they sell thousands of them) items might be very sought after by the $300k/year executive who hates his morning drive. If they price further sales based on a few eBay auctions, they might end up only catering to the very rich.
Not to mention they will be operating well above the point where they will make the largest (potential) profit.
I hate replying to anonymous coward trolls, but...
If you knew *anything* about the ATI drivers, you'd know that there is no known support for anything prior to the 9000. The 9000 core is only supported through a hack, since the hardware engine is roughly the same as their high-end cards, and the German wing is providing the first 4.3 package for them.
I've been searching for 4.3 drivers for a while, now. If you can't help, don't reply (especially anonymously!)
While I agree that probably 90% of our DNA isn't "junk" DNA, there is a massive difference between tightly-written ASM and DNA. DNA wasn't created, it simple evolved over millenia. Genes are routinely duplicated (sometimes many, many times), transferred, and mutated. Every once in a while, something useful would pop up, but still a lot of "junk" material is neccesary in order to allow for evolution. It actually makes sense that a very large portion of our DNA isn't used for anything immediate (ie, never expressed or have impact on any biological function).
So where are all these wonderful inventions? You sound more like you're on crack than anything else.. limitless energy from from air turning into water? Huh?
Nive science fiction, but no science reality in this post.
That's funny, I was at Wrigley Field on Friday (After the Toe injury, before the cork, but Sammy struck out each time at bat, anyways). There were no screens stopping the (many) local apartments from seeing the game. In fact, many of then had bleachers setup with people enjoying the game!
I'd say you're lucky. You may be paying to go to college, but you attend class by yhe grace of your professor. If you do something he/she finds disruptive, he/she has every right to remove you from the class.
And no, taking a tape is not harassment. What a teacher says in a classroom is often well prepared personal knowledge that you may learn from, but not record and reproduce exactly. And recording someone in a classroom (which is not a public place) may even be illegal in many places. The teacher might be doing that student a favor.
Yes, people may be willing to pay $8.50 to see the Matrix. But why didn't these people go see so many other movies? Becuase they didn't think the ticket price was worth it. If ticket prices were lower, then the non-blockbuster movies would *also* sell out.
That being said, the price would have to be bout $2 for me to go see Bruce Almighty...
I cannot believe that this is actually happening. What can they possibly be thinking? Do they really think that by threatening almost every major corporation in the *world* with lawsuits that they'll somehow make more money?
In the business world, you do not want to piss off you *entire customer base* like this!
Please tell me this is an April 1 joke that got leaked late...
Any idea why they chose a color that makes it look like someone left the bill in their laundry with some bleach? I was hoping for something that looked *good* not faded. Oh well.
Or is this the hardest-to-read interview ever? It seems the "first paragraph in italics" replies make it tough to skim through. Maybe that was the point, but it's still a bit tough to get through.
Ha! I can just see it... Alice@me.com send and e-mail to Bob@you.com. Bob@ send a challenge to Alice. Alice, never having heard from Bob, send a challenge back to Bob. Either Bob ignores the second e-mail, or sends another challence.
Of course, if the e-mail software allows any outgoing e-mail address to reply without challenge, this wouldn't be a problem.
Ignoring exactly how many FPS the eye can see, wouldn't it still take something away from the picture quality of the movie to modulate the light in a way that seriously disrupts recording devices? And I wonder if it hurts digital and analog recording devices.
Maybe it works like TV or old PC screen on television, where the refresh rate synchs up with the recording rate.
Now of course, I wouldn't have had this reaction if the company had taken steps working with the discoverers of the security flaw. If anything, they should hire/pay these researchers for their work, fix the problem, implement it, and then publish what went wrong.
And who knows, maybe they even tried. I doubt it though, when a cease-and-desist can have the same effect.
I wish there were a way to accidentally leak the exacty details overseas. There, it would be very difficult to get shut down, and every college using this system would have to deal with it.
While this may be an inconvenience to students, they can get by without buying coke with a swipe of a card for a while.
So, they created an iron sphere with a magnetic field, and it started to spin, ever so slightly. Don't you think that this field could just have been moving through some other magnetic field, and this caused the spin?
nonono.. Sold the PS2, kept the FFX (and memory card. It took me 4 hours to win that d$#@ chocobo race wtih under 0 seconds. I didn't want to lose that ultimate weapon so easily!)
Sony has been making money on hardware asles of the PS2 for quite a long time, now. The only company who's been losign money from hardware is Microsoft.
It's strange though, since you can find a PS2 for $150 "refurbished" just about anywhere. I imagine a price drop to $180 wouldn't significantly increase sales, but would lower their profits. Of course, maybe they've dropped the manufacturing costs by $20, so they'll just break even.
Now, if FF X-2 is PS/2 only, I might have to pick one up:)
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I'm not intersted in the limited driver provided by the radeon.o module, I want the fully accelerated fglrx.o driver which ATI provides.
This could lead to some really bad economic decision. eBay is not a fair marketplace, especially in areas like this. We're operating in the extreme portion of the demand curve here. These extremely rare (unless they sell thousands of them) items might be very sought after by the $300k/year executive who hates his morning drive. If they price further sales based on a few eBay auctions, they might end up only catering to the very rich.
Not to mention they will be operating well above the point where they will make the largest (potential) profit.
I hate replying to anonymous coward trolls, but...
If you knew *anything* about the ATI drivers, you'd know that there is no known support for anything prior to the 9000. The 9000 core is only supported through a hack, since the hardware engine is roughly the same as their high-end cards, and the German wing is providing the first 4.3 package for them.
I've been searching for 4.3 drivers for a while, now. If you can't help, don't reply (especially anonymously!)
Has anyone had luck getting 8500-series working in X 4.3?
Can the strike zone be "augmented" by passing the system hundred-dollar bills...
While I agree that probably 90% of our DNA isn't "junk" DNA, there is a massive difference between tightly-written ASM and DNA. DNA wasn't created, it simple evolved over millenia. Genes are routinely duplicated (sometimes many, many times), transferred, and mutated. Every once in a while, something useful would pop up, but still a lot of "junk" material is neccesary in order to allow for evolution. It actually makes sense that a very large portion of our DNA isn't used for anything immediate (ie, never expressed or have impact on any biological function).
So where are all these wonderful inventions? You sound more like you're on crack than anything else.. limitless energy from from air turning into water? Huh? Nive science fiction, but no science reality in this post.
Wird, I have bittorrent installed, but Apple Quicktime keeps trying to load this file! I wonder if IE only looks at the first .extension?
That's funny, I was at Wrigley Field on Friday (After the Toe injury, before the cork, but Sammy struck out each time at bat, anyways). There were no screens stopping the (many) local apartments from seeing the game. In fact, many of then had bleachers setup with people enjoying the game!
This has nothing to do with anything, other than you trying to show off a cursory understanding of physics.
With Microsoft in control of the system, Finland will mysteriously disappear from all the routing systems...
I'd say you're lucky. You may be paying to go to college, but you attend class by yhe grace of your professor. If you do something he/she finds disruptive, he/she has every right to remove you from the class.
And no, taking a tape is not harassment. What a teacher says in a classroom is often well prepared personal knowledge that you may learn from, but not record and reproduce exactly. And recording someone in a classroom (which is not a public place) may even be illegal in many places. The teacher might be doing that student a favor.
Yes, people may be willing to pay $8.50 to see the Matrix. But why didn't these people go see so many other movies? Becuase they didn't think the ticket price was worth it. If ticket prices were lower, then the non-blockbuster movies would *also* sell out.
That being said, the price would have to be bout $2 for me to go see Bruce Almighty...
I cannot believe that this is actually happening. What can they possibly be thinking? Do they really think that by threatening almost every major corporation in the *world* with lawsuits that they'll somehow make more money?
In the business world, you do not want to piss off you *entire customer base* like this!
Please tell me this is an April 1 joke that got leaked late...
Any idea why they chose a color that makes it look like someone left the bill in their laundry with some bleach? I was hoping for something that looked *good* not faded. Oh well.
Or is this the hardest-to-read interview ever? It seems the "first paragraph in italics" replies make it tough to skim through. Maybe that was the point, but it's still a bit tough to get through.
Ha! I can just see it... Alice@me.com send and e-mail to Bob@you.com. Bob@ send a challenge to Alice. Alice, never having heard from Bob, send a challenge back to Bob. Either Bob ignores the second e-mail, or sends another challence. Of course, if the e-mail software allows any outgoing e-mail address to reply without challenge, this wouldn't be a problem.
Ignoring exactly how many FPS the eye can see, wouldn't it still take something away from the picture quality of the movie to modulate the light in a way that seriously disrupts recording devices? And I wonder if it hurts digital and analog recording devices.
Maybe it works like TV or old PC screen on television, where the refresh rate synchs up with the recording rate.
Now of course, I wouldn't have had this reaction if the company had taken steps working with the discoverers of the security flaw. If anything, they should hire/pay these researchers for their work, fix the problem, implement it, and then publish what went wrong. And who knows, maybe they even tried. I doubt it though, when a cease-and-desist can have the same effect.
I wish there were a way to accidentally leak the exacty details overseas. There, it would be very difficult to get shut down, and every college using this system would have to deal with it.
While this may be an inconvenience to students, they can get by without buying coke with a swipe of a card for a while.
So, they created an iron sphere with a magnetic field, and it started to spin, ever so slightly. Don't you think that this field could just have been moving through some other magnetic field, and this caused the spin?
nonono.. Sold the PS2, kept the FFX (and memory card. It took me 4 hours to win that d$#@ chocobo race wtih under 0 seconds. I didn't want to lose that ultimate weapon so easily!)
I bought it for FFX, beat it, then sold it. :) Needed the cash (college student)
Sony has been making money on hardware asles of the PS2 for quite a long time, now. The only company who's been losign money from hardware is Microsoft.
It's strange though, since you can find a PS2 for $150 "refurbished" just about anywhere. I imagine a price drop to $180 wouldn't significantly increase sales, but would lower their profits. Of course, maybe they've dropped the manufacturing costs by $20, so they'll just break even.
:)
Now, if FF X-2 is PS/2 only, I might have to pick one up