So what? Do you realy think anyone is going to sell a music player that wont have MP3 support? And if it has MP3 support, whats the point in OGG? The market is MP3 (because everyone uses it), ACC (because you can buy songs in it) and WMA (because its smaller then MP3 and because Microsoft says so).
I tried not eating once for a diet. It hurt. I can't imagine not having a place to live at the same time. Hell, the homeless guys on the corner are making more then the outsourced programmers in India are.
Given that the CEOs these days seem to only care about short term profits rather then long term quality the only way to compete with our Indian and Asian brethren is to.
a.Find a refrigerator box to live in.
b.Sell drugs on the side to buy clothes.
c.Use the shower and bathroom at the YMCA.
And
d.Scrounge behind Safeway for thrown out rotten food.
Or you could just put 12TB on one server with several gigabit connections trunked to the network. Seems a waste of money to use three overpriced XServe boxes for this.
In my opinion the best search engine is a Ford T-Block. Put that into a light weight steel frame and we can search them down and kill em in the street like wild animals.
So his "backer" would get the patent. The inventor would get nothing. Once again, not a great way to encourage individual inventers. Since the idea behind patents is to stimulate the creation of technology and ideas, limiting patents to those who can afford to build a prototype seems counter productive.
So only large corporations that can afford R&D labs should be able to get patents? Thats sort of the opposite of what patents where intended for. You patent the idea, and then go and find someone to back the project and produce the prototype.
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"Put it in the trash of course. Another victim of early adoption."
Whats a "bluetooth desktop"? I've got a desktop with a bluetooth adaptor in it. Even should it magicly stop working when wireless USB comes out the adaptor only cost me 14$, so its not that big a loss.
So you would have no problem with someone taking a GPLd program and claiming it was their own? You know, the kind of stuff they could get away with if there where no copyright laws? Without copyright laws the GPL and its ideals annot be enforced. There would be nothing stopping people form refusing to release source or to give credit to other programmers.
I may be wrong, but I dont recall Thoreau sitting around and whining when/if he got caught. Did he except the consequences of his actions or just bitch about it online?
"I have paid no poll tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated my as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as I was. I did nor for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it."
Seems that unlike your current champion of civil disobedience Thoreau was willing to except that his choices had consequences but that they where outweighed by injustices he was trying to stand against.
Civil disobedience requires you to EXPECT and ACEPT the consequences of your actions in the hope that your persecution will enlighten others as to the injustice of the law you're breaking. It is NOT being surprised and pissed off when you get caught. That is just being a petty criminal.
Futurama had/has a LOT of 3D graphics in it, way more then most people seem to realise. The quality of the animation is the best ever done on TV outisde of Japan. I recal a price tag of around 13mill for at least one of the episodes in season three.
"For example - CD Writing software for windows. Does anyone need or even want all the dang crap that comes in those?"
Lets see, Golden Hawks CDR software comes in at 688k. Cant realy see them getting much smaller then that. Then again, if you can't handel a 688k program, what are the odds you have a use for a CDR drive?
Searching for my software money pit "Klassy Software" returns the license page for an old product information site for my HTML editor Net Weasel as #1, an old "about us" page as #2, and some rants of mine on Slash Dot as #3. Funky.
Since you know all about it, being gifted with a time machine and all. Please post its benchmarks. If you cant, then shut the hell up. You CAN NOT compare a FUTURE product to a CURRENT one. Failure to do the impossible DOES NOT MAKE the reviewer "pro nVidia".
Your right, you should always compare the current nVidia chip to the theoretical non existent ATI chip that your brothers friends cousin heard about. Only then can you have an unbiased comparison.
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So what? Do you realy think anyone is going to sell a music player that wont have MP3 support? And if it has MP3 support, whats the point in OGG? The market is MP3 (because everyone uses it), ACC (because you can buy songs in it) and WMA (because its smaller then MP3 and because Microsoft says so).
I've had the same domain name for around ten years with a catch all email acount. 1 in 3 is nothing, for me its closer to 99 out of 100.
And then you'll have to recompile the kernel whenever you want a poptart rather then toast.
Provided with enough thrust, just about anything can fly. I'm thinking of building a large potato gun that can be loaded with penguins or pigs.
Dear Gods no. Dont scare the suits with your pasty face and tshirt. Go back into your cave and never come out again.
Go deeper in debt! Take out more student loans! It wont help of course, but it'll give you more to bitch about to the other bums at the bus stop.
I tried not eating once for a diet. It hurt. I can't imagine not having a place to live at the same time. Hell, the homeless guys on the corner are making more then the outsourced programmers in India are.
a.Find a refrigerator box to live in.
b.Sell drugs on the side to buy clothes.
c.Use the shower and bathroom at the YMCA.
And
d.Scrounge behind Safeway for thrown out rotten food.
There's nothing like the shear deluge of porn available to broadband users to turn one of sex entirely.
Or you could just put 12TB on one server with several gigabit connections trunked to the network. Seems a waste of money to use three overpriced XServe boxes for this.
I'll never RTFA again. Brain unclean, must wash.
Whoa, hold on. Wrong site. Never mind.
That would let people come in and make copies of the non-free stuff.
So his "backer" would get the patent. The inventor would get nothing. Once again, not a great way to encourage individual inventers. Since the idea behind patents is to stimulate the creation of technology and ideas, limiting patents to those who can afford to build a prototype seems counter productive.
So only large corporations that can afford R&D labs should be able to get patents? Thats sort of the opposite of what patents where intended for. You patent the idea, and then go and find someone to back the project and produce the prototype.
Whats a "bluetooth desktop"? I've got a desktop with a bluetooth adaptor in it. Even should it magicly stop working when wireless USB comes out the adaptor only cost me 14$, so its not that big a loss.
So you would have no problem with someone taking a GPLd program and claiming it was their own? You know, the kind of stuff they could get away with if there where no copyright laws? Without copyright laws the GPL and its ideals annot be enforced. There would be nothing stopping people form refusing to release source or to give credit to other programmers.
"I have paid no poll tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated my as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as I was. I did nor for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it."
Seems that unlike your current champion of civil disobedience Thoreau was willing to except that his choices had consequences but that they where outweighed by injustices he was trying to stand against.
Civil disobedience requires you to EXPECT and ACEPT the consequences of your actions in the hope that your persecution will enlighten others as to the injustice of the law you're breaking. It is NOT being surprised and pissed off when you get caught. That is just being a petty criminal.
Futurama had/has a LOT of 3D graphics in it, way more then most people seem to realise. The quality of the animation is the best ever done on TV outisde of Japan. I recal a price tag of around 13mill for at least one of the episodes in season three.
Lets see, Golden Hawks CDR software comes in at 688k. Cant realy see them getting much smaller then that. Then again, if you can't handel a 688k program, what are the odds you have a use for a CDR drive?
Searching for my software money pit "Klassy Software" returns the license page for an old product information site for my HTML editor Net Weasel as #1, an old "about us" page as #2, and some rants of mine on Slash Dot as #3. Funky.
Since you know all about it, being gifted with a time machine and all. Please post its benchmarks. If you cant, then shut the hell up. You CAN NOT compare a FUTURE product to a CURRENT one. Failure to do the impossible DOES NOT MAKE the reviewer "pro nVidia".
Your right, you should always compare the current nVidia chip to the theoretical non existent ATI chip that your brothers friends cousin heard about. Only then can you have an unbiased comparison.
Twice the cost of AIT tape at half the capacity and one third the performance. GO IOMEGA!