You just don't see them that often because people don't want them. The PC market provides what people demand. Apple provides what's Apple wants to sell.
They're not doing anything actionable unless they're distributing the whole package. A patch against the nVidia distributed drivers is perfectly legal.
The Mac tax comes from the fact that to buy a Mac you have to choose from Apple's anaemic product line. For the vast majority, the available hardware will be inappropriate, and they'll have to spend hundreds or thousands on superfluous hardware.
Consider that you simply can't get a Mac laptop without discrete graphics, even though integrated graphics are more than sufficient for anyone who doesn't play games. Not to mention a screen that will work with the lights on.
My guess is that the wired ones had a clock signal on that wire, and no logic in the glasses. I would expect the Nvidia IR glasses would use a start/stop signal with onboard logic. Maybe the old IR glasses do something else?
Was Nvidia previously offering a software framework that could run on any GPU, but now only supports their own? Can ATI (or anyone else) not implement the standard in their own drivers?
IE8 doesn't support canvas, or svg, doesn't have a real javascript engine, and still mangles standard css.
It can get by on simple web pages, but it's simply not suitable for real web apps. Anyone developing one either writes off IE completely, or is using the tools that Google's been releasing to augment IE's deficiencies.
Who the major parties are will vary from place to place, but a first past the post is necessarily polarizing, and puts all the power in the hands of those parties.
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You can vote for anyone you like to your hearts content, but unless that person has the blessing of a major party they will not be permitted to take office.
Because only voting for winning candidates has effect, voting for anyone but the majors has exactly the same effect as not voting at all.
We should mandate that all phone companies allow free and unrestricted access to their networks from all comers over the internet. Phone service isn't anything special, it's just data. There's absolutely no legitimate reason anyone should pay a dime for it if they want to run it over their internet connection.
The user doesn't get charged at all, just the phone company. The rural phone companies are exploiting a sideways subsidy meant to allow them to charge more for connections to rural homes by redirecting calls to large call centres through their networks. It's a shell game.
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You just don't see them that often because people don't want them. The PC market provides what people demand. Apple provides what's Apple wants to sell.
They're not doing anything actionable unless they're distributing the whole package. A patch against the nVidia distributed drivers is perfectly legal.
Or did they just want an upgrade? Was there anything wrong with them that a reinstall of Windows wouldn't fix?
Why would someone for whom a $599 Dell is sufficient want to pay $1,150 for the cheapest MacBook?
I may be wrong about the integrated graphics, but the greater point remains. Apple's anaemic product line forces people to overbuy hardware.
And having to pay extra for a screen you can use outside a windowless room with the lights off is more than a little absurd.
The Mac tax comes from the fact that to buy a Mac you have to choose from Apple's anaemic product line. For the vast majority, the available hardware will be inappropriate, and they'll have to spend hundreds or thousands on superfluous hardware.
Consider that you simply can't get a Mac laptop without discrete graphics, even though integrated graphics are more than sufficient for anyone who doesn't play games. Not to mention a screen that will work with the lights on.
My guess is that the wired ones had a clock signal on that wire, and no logic in the glasses. I would expect the Nvidia IR glasses would use a start/stop signal with onboard logic. Maybe the old IR glasses do something else?
But yes, it has a Core 2 processor *and* an ARM system on a card that boots instantly.
It seems that most LCD's that claim to run at 120Hz are using shenanigans to get that high; they aren't really showing 120 images per second.
OpenSSH is one of the few (only?) BSD projects that still use a license incompatible with the GPL.
It seems like they use an IR transmitter to sync the glasses with a pass through for the monitor. Do your glasses have an IR receiver?
They've decided to stop supporting old tech. That's hardly shocking.
Nvidia says they support any 100+Hz CRT.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/3D_Vision_Requirements.html
Unless you can show that there's no technical distinction, a reasonable person would have to presume that Nvidia is on the up and up.
Nvidia doesn't sell LCDs.
You really can't blame them for dropping support for CRTs. If you can even buy them anymore, you'd have to be insane to want to.
Was Nvidia previously offering a software framework that could run on any GPU, but now only supports their own? Can ATI (or anyone else) not implement the standard in their own drivers?
Opera tends to mangle CSS a bit, but other than that Microsoft is the only one not following standards.
IE8 doesn't support canvas, or svg, doesn't have a real javascript engine, and still mangles standard css.
It can get by on simple web pages, but it's simply not suitable for real web apps. Anyone developing one either writes off IE completely, or is using the tools that Google's been releasing to augment IE's deficiencies.
You're not going to be able to run the dialer app without a CPU.
Who the major parties are will vary from place to place, but a first past the post is necessarily polarizing, and puts all the power in the hands of those parties.
You can vote for anyone you like to your hearts content, but unless that person has the blessing of a major party they will not be permitted to take office.
Because only voting for winning candidates has effect, voting for anyone but the majors has exactly the same effect as not voting at all.
We should mandate that all phone companies allow free and unrestricted access to their networks from all comers over the internet. Phone service isn't anything special, it's just data. There's absolutely no legitimate reason anyone should pay a dime for it if they want to run it over their internet connection.
The user doesn't get charged at all, just the phone company. The rural phone companies are exploiting a sideways subsidy meant to allow them to charge more for connections to rural homes by redirecting calls to large call centres through their networks. It's a shell game.
Content producers have never, and will never be paid for every single instance of content consumption.
Fighting piracy is morally equivalent to burning libraries.
They're not enough for movie stars to make 10's of millions of dollars per film, but that isn't necessary.
Actually, I think sucking a lot of money out of the content industry would do it wonders.