I've had good luck with Harry's after using Gillette Fusions for ages. Blades are made in Germany and pretty decent. Low angle of attack so they nick/irritate me even less than the Fusion (my face is crazy sensitive, it's really annoying).
I'm glad that the gouging of printer manufacturers' has been recognized and cheaper replacement ink options are being mandated.
The ink jet printer market has always followed the razor blade model - sell the handle at a loss and get 'em with the blades.
Which leads me to the question, has Gillette or any of the other shaving blade manufacturers been investigated by the DOJ or is it just that the gouging was so extreme in the printer market that people stood up and took notice?
AFAIK Gillette does not prevent you from sending your used cartridges to a 3rd party for refurbishment and resale. Not that anyone does that. Nor do they have a rip-through license agreement on the packing like Lexmark did, forcing you to accept a EULA for them (http://media.lexmark.com/www/doc/en_US/lexmark_end_user_license_agreement__2_.pdf).
They are allowed to charge what they want and patents are still a valid thing. This case was about what the consumer did with the product after they purchased it.
It also did not involve the DOJ. It was one company suing another one.
Why sign a contract at the register, when you can just seal the cartridge in a bag that says, "Opening this seal constitutes agreement with the EULA"?
Lexmark actually does this. I bought a cheap Lexmark laser printer back in the mid 2000's and it had a tear-through agreement on the box that basically said you would not transfer the toner cartridge to any third party but would send it back to Lexmark for recycling. They leaned on their patent to support it, so I can't wait to see what they come up with now.
However this would be good (if overly expensive) for people who use a single PC setup to stream PC games to sites like Twitch or YouTube. That live encoding takes a bit of CPU on top of the game and everything else going on.
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Still for the price the new AMD CPUs seem like a better deal.
That's the problem here. For the price of one of these CPUs, you can buy plenty of CPU to game with and build a whole other system to do your streaming... especially if you go AMD:)
2PC streaming is a headache if you are not gaming at 1080p/60 due to the need to use a capture card for the PC games. With single PC you can stream at whatever resolution you want and still game at 1440p or 4K without any headaches.
But yes, the price is bonkers. However the new AMD CPUs make it much more reasonable. Also you don't have to go for this monster. There are 10 core i9's at $999, which I think is going to be the more popular option for the HEDT market from the i9 line up. It may have fewer cores than some of the AMD options but Intel still holds the high ground on single-core performance.
What game needs 18 cores? Who will this benefit ( besides Intel )?
Games, none. However this would be good (if overly expensive) for people who use a single PC setup to stream PC games to sites like Twitch or YouTube. That live encoding takes a bit of CPU on top of the game and everything else going on.
And before the inevitable "who wants to watch people play video games" the answer is: Plenty of people. Millions per day. I have a friend who makes about $30K a year as a streamer. It's a nice side income for him.
Still for the price the new AMD CPUs seem like a better deal.
A lot of other people (and myself) have combined leave (sick and vacation) hours. I don't use all my leave because you never know when you might be sick, and if you get laid off it's nice to have some extra money that you get by cashing in your excess PTO hours.
I used to do this when we had combined PTO/Sick and year-to-year rollover. Due to my seniority I have a ton of PTO and I would keep at least 2 weeks, usually more, in reserve for an emergency. But last year my company got bought out and changed that, moving 7 days from PTO to dedicated sick time, and they eliminating year to year rollover. So now I let them build up from the start of the year and start taking time off towards the last half of the year just waiting for the axe to fall but not wanting to give money back to my company.
I mean, really, why do they need them? Other than putting stuff onto actual paper, which these days seems somewhat pointless since most of this will actually be consumed digitally anyway. Are you telling me the academic world can't work out a way to coordinate peer review and put out papers without the help of massive commercial academic publishers?
And if they do, how the hell has Amazon not stepped into the field and undercut everyone? About the only thing I can see the publishers have going for them is momentum and legacy at this point.
That's like saying Apple created MPEG because they're in the patent pool, and MPEG uses the QuickTime container.
The reality is quite different. Nobody claims MPEG is an Apple format, and in the same way, it's disingenuous to claim Sony created the DVD.
Then Blu-ray also needs to come off that list, since it was a joint collaboration between Phillips, Sony, Pioneer, with the founding org and patent pool also including Panasonic, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung Electronics.
It may not be their format, but they owned some of the key patents for DVDs when MMCD and SDD were merged into what became the DVD standard. They definitely had a hand in the final spec, and more importantly, they profited from it directly as one of the patent holders.
Again, I have to disagree. Digital music sales were a novelty before Apple. Most labels were aggressively pushing back against it. Apple brought the labels around and enabled mass adoption of digital music. iTunes music store changed the people bought music. Just look back to sales starting in 2003 and the massive, rapid shift from album to single sales. Apple drove that.
Also, the iPod itself was a bit of a status symbol and sold over 368 million units during from 2006 to 2014. No where near iPhone numbers but still a significant product.
OK I'd disagree with this because along with the iPod necessitated iTunes. iTunes first introduced main-stream consumers to digital music, and more importantly, buying digital media. It was also the first time Apple, and specifically Steve Jobs, showed how much influence they have by getting the music industry to embrace digital distribution. It quite literally changed the music industry, for good or bad, depending on your point of view, forever. This also forged the way for digital video sales (TV shows and music videos) in 2005 for the 5th gen iPod, then movies in 2008 along with the launch of the original iPhone.
I bet China and Russia really miss the days when they didn't have to pay spies. The days when you could just comb through P2P networks like Bearshare for classified documents, shared out by idiots looking for music on government or government contractor work computers who didn't understand the default setting shared out your entire PC with the world. Ah the good ol' days.
Don't forget DVD, which Sony had a hand (and several patents) in developing, along with Philips, Pioneer, Toshiba, Panasonic, and LG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD
I mean as far as consumer facing products go (which is really what this article seems to be looking at) Sony is three things: Media (TV*, movie, music studios), console gaming, and consumer electronics. Unfortunately that last market is a walking corpse right now. TVs are a commodity these days, with the difference between high end brands and low end discount brands being trivial to everyone but the home theater enthusiasts. And speaking of home theater, that's going back to being a niche market after growing rapidly in the late 90's and early 00's due to DVD, and Sony isn't even a strong player in it these days anyway. Even plain ol' TVs are falling out of fashion with younger consumers who prefer watching on phones and laptops. Don't ask me to explain that trend; I can't. I don't get it either but it's a reality that electronics companies are going to have to face. Physical media sales (and Sony's lucrative patent licenses) have also fallen off a cliff. Music players and home audio system markets are beyond dead for the average consumer.
Today smart phones are the media consumption device of choice for a growing number of consumers and between Samsung and Apple, that market is locked up tight on the high end, and Sony can't compete on the crowded middle and low end segments. Everything Sony was know for is being consumed by smart phones.
If it wasn't for the PS4 being a success, mainly due to Microsoft fumbling the XBox One and spending less on exclusive titles, Sony as a brand would be practically invisible to consumers. This generation has worked out well for them so far, but they can not count on out-maneuvering Microsoft forever. Microsoft is already fighting back on pricing and their upcoming Scorpio looks ready to trounce the PS4 Pro performance wise. If Microsoft decides to start throwing money at good exclusives again, they can claw back quite a bit of market.
Their only other bright spot they have is their camera division which is doing some really cool stuff in the mirrorless camera market. However that is mostly a niche pro market. Most consumers are perfectly happy to use their smart phone camera.
Honestly in a decade or so I can see them spinning off their consumer electronics business or outright selling it, keeping the gaming and media companies. I just can't see where they can go from here in the electronics business. Of course they still have commercial business units like their camera sensor business. I have no insight there, but again we're really looking at the consumer facing Sony here.
*They have reason to worry here too. Sony makes a number of TV shows for various networks, however due to the new realities of network TV (lower ratings, dropping viewers, and ad rate pushback from buyers) show ownership is playing a bigger and bigger part in what shows get picked up or renewed. Sony doesn't have its own network to fall back on so their only choice is to either field fewer and fewer shows, cut ludicrous first-run fee deals, or (and this is starting to happen now) give up a slice of their back end syndication and foreign rights money. Sony Television makes all their money on syndication deals, this is why you see shows like "The Rules of Engagement" stay on the air for 100 episodes despite poor ratings and odd timeslots. They practically give those final seasons to the networks to get it over the 88 or 100 episodes they need to create a syndication package.
Maybe Sony can produce a new Spiderman movie, it would sure to be a hit.
They did. It comes out July 7, 2017 . Well they sorta did. They outsourced writing and making it back to Marvel. So yea, it probably will be a hit now if they kept out of Marvel's way and let them do their thing.
You could say the same thing to Apple and its stagnating product lineup
Yea Apple needs to invent iResurrect. Love him or hate him, Jobs had a talent for finding and marketing that "next big thing" and he had the influence to make it happen. I don't think Apple is going to die off tomorrow but I don't see any really big, new products coming from them. I don't think they are going to have another Mac, or iPod, or iPhone moment again.
The ancients could monitor lightning as it happened too. But whether it was Zeus throwing them, or aliens, or "electricity" was just as equally "testable" to them, as the two explanations I mentioned...
In what way is this not testable? Please, enlighten me. Don't just say "because it's far away". That's bullshit.
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I've had good luck with Harry's after using Gillette Fusions for ages. Blades are made in Germany and pretty decent. Low angle of attack so they nick/irritate me even less than the Fusion (my face is crazy sensitive, it's really annoying).
I'm glad that the gouging of printer manufacturers' has been recognized and cheaper replacement ink options are being mandated.
The ink jet printer market has always followed the razor blade model - sell the handle at a loss and get 'em with the blades.
Which leads me to the question, has Gillette or any of the other shaving blade manufacturers been investigated by the DOJ or is it just that the gouging was so extreme in the printer market that people stood up and took notice?
AFAIK Gillette does not prevent you from sending your used cartridges to a 3rd party for refurbishment and resale. Not that anyone does that. Nor do they have a rip-through license agreement on the packing like Lexmark did, forcing you to accept a EULA for them (http://media.lexmark.com/www/doc/en_US/lexmark_end_user_license_agreement__2_.pdf).
They are allowed to charge what they want and patents are still a valid thing. This case was about what the consumer did with the product after they purchased it. It also did not involve the DOJ. It was one company suing another one.
I had people constantly trying to steal my low ICQ number. I guess for a while there was a market for them? So funny.
Why sign a contract at the register, when you can just seal the cartridge in a bag that says, "Opening this seal constitutes agreement with the EULA"?
Lexmark actually does this. I bought a cheap Lexmark laser printer back in the mid 2000's and it had a tear-through agreement on the box that basically said you would not transfer the toner cartridge to any third party but would send it back to Lexmark for recycling. They leaned on their patent to support it, so I can't wait to see what they come up with now.
You can see the kind of text it had here: http://media.lexmark.com/www/doc/en_US/lexmark_end_user_license_agreement__2_.pdf
The heat off this thing must be insane.
Yea there was a leaked benchmark run that showed the i9 range clocking in at 140 watts TDP.
what games fit on a 128GB SSD?
Pretty much any PC game you want. As long as you only want to install one at a time!
However this would be good (if overly expensive) for people who use a single PC setup to stream PC games to sites like Twitch or YouTube. That live encoding takes a bit of CPU on top of the game and everything else going on. [...] Still for the price the new AMD CPUs seem like a better deal.
That's the problem here. For the price of one of these CPUs, you can buy plenty of CPU to game with and build a whole other system to do your streaming... especially if you go AMD :)
2PC streaming is a headache if you are not gaming at 1080p/60 due to the need to use a capture card for the PC games. With single PC you can stream at whatever resolution you want and still game at 1440p or 4K without any headaches.
But yes, the price is bonkers. However the new AMD CPUs make it much more reasonable. Also you don't have to go for this monster. There are 10 core i9's at $999, which I think is going to be the more popular option for the HEDT market from the i9 line up. It may have fewer cores than some of the AMD options but Intel still holds the high ground on single-core performance.
I put a reminder in my calendar for 2024
One reason is that you won't need a server or workstation motherboard, which usually are not geared towards the high end enthusiast PC market.
What game needs 18 cores? Who will this benefit ( besides Intel )?
Games, none. However this would be good (if overly expensive) for people who use a single PC setup to stream PC games to sites like Twitch or YouTube. That live encoding takes a bit of CPU on top of the game and everything else going on.
And before the inevitable "who wants to watch people play video games" the answer is: Plenty of people. Millions per day. I have a friend who makes about $30K a year as a streamer. It's a nice side income for him.
Still for the price the new AMD CPUs seem like a better deal.
A lot of other people (and myself) have combined leave (sick and vacation) hours. I don't use all my leave because you never know when you might be sick, and if you get laid off it's nice to have some extra money that you get by cashing in your excess PTO hours.
I used to do this when we had combined PTO/Sick and year-to-year rollover. Due to my seniority I have a ton of PTO and I would keep at least 2 weeks, usually more, in reserve for an emergency. But last year my company got bought out and changed that, moving 7 days from PTO to dedicated sick time, and they eliminating year to year rollover. So now I let them build up from the start of the year and start taking time off towards the last half of the year just waiting for the axe to fall but not wanting to give money back to my company.
Store it underground as dry ice. Solves the storage problem and counters global warming!!
I'm sure it will work, I'm a random guy on the internet with an idea. Those always work.
I mean, really, why do they need them? Other than putting stuff onto actual paper, which these days seems somewhat pointless since most of this will actually be consumed digitally anyway. Are you telling me the academic world can't work out a way to coordinate peer review and put out papers without the help of massive commercial academic publishers?
And if they do, how the hell has Amazon not stepped into the field and undercut everyone? About the only thing I can see the publishers have going for them is momentum and legacy at this point.
That's like saying Apple created MPEG because they're in the patent pool, and MPEG uses the QuickTime container.
The reality is quite different. Nobody claims MPEG is an Apple format, and in the same way, it's disingenuous to claim Sony created the DVD.
Then Blu-ray also needs to come off that list, since it was a joint collaboration between Phillips, Sony, Pioneer, with the founding org and patent pool also including Panasonic, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, and Samsung Electronics.
Apparently you Millennials don't know what an 'antenna' is, just like you can't read a clock that has hands instead of just numbers.
Awwww... That's so cute that you think there are actually Millennials on /.
It may not be their format, but they owned some of the key patents for DVDs when MMCD and SDD were merged into what became the DVD standard. They definitely had a hand in the final spec, and more importantly, they profited from it directly as one of the patent holders.
Again, I have to disagree. Digital music sales were a novelty before Apple. Most labels were aggressively pushing back against it. Apple brought the labels around and enabled mass adoption of digital music. iTunes music store changed the people bought music. Just look back to sales starting in 2003 and the massive, rapid shift from album to single sales. Apple drove that.
Also, the iPod itself was a bit of a status symbol and sold over 368 million units during from 2006 to 2014. No where near iPhone numbers but still a significant product.
Geography isn't your strong suite I take it?
OK I'd disagree with this because along with the iPod necessitated iTunes. iTunes first introduced main-stream consumers to digital music, and more importantly, buying digital media. It was also the first time Apple, and specifically Steve Jobs, showed how much influence they have by getting the music industry to embrace digital distribution. It quite literally changed the music industry, for good or bad, depending on your point of view, forever. This also forged the way for digital video sales (TV shows and music videos) in 2005 for the 5th gen iPod, then movies in 2008 along with the launch of the original iPhone.
I bet China and Russia really miss the days when they didn't have to pay spies. The days when you could just comb through P2P networks like Bearshare for classified documents, shared out by idiots looking for music on government or government contractor work computers who didn't understand the default setting shared out your entire PC with the world. Ah the good ol' days.
Don't forget DVD, which Sony had a hand (and several patents) in developing, along with Philips, Pioneer, Toshiba, Panasonic, and LG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD
I mean as far as consumer facing products go (which is really what this article seems to be looking at) Sony is three things: Media (TV*, movie, music studios), console gaming, and consumer electronics. Unfortunately that last market is a walking corpse right now. TVs are a commodity these days, with the difference between high end brands and low end discount brands being trivial to everyone but the home theater enthusiasts. And speaking of home theater, that's going back to being a niche market after growing rapidly in the late 90's and early 00's due to DVD, and Sony isn't even a strong player in it these days anyway. Even plain ol' TVs are falling out of fashion with younger consumers who prefer watching on phones and laptops. Don't ask me to explain that trend; I can't. I don't get it either but it's a reality that electronics companies are going to have to face. Physical media sales (and Sony's lucrative patent licenses) have also fallen off a cliff. Music players and home audio system markets are beyond dead for the average consumer.
Today smart phones are the media consumption device of choice for a growing number of consumers and between Samsung and Apple, that market is locked up tight on the high end, and Sony can't compete on the crowded middle and low end segments. Everything Sony was know for is being consumed by smart phones.
If it wasn't for the PS4 being a success, mainly due to Microsoft fumbling the XBox One and spending less on exclusive titles, Sony as a brand would be practically invisible to consumers. This generation has worked out well for them so far, but they can not count on out-maneuvering Microsoft forever. Microsoft is already fighting back on pricing and their upcoming Scorpio looks ready to trounce the PS4 Pro performance wise. If Microsoft decides to start throwing money at good exclusives again, they can claw back quite a bit of market.
Their only other bright spot they have is their camera division which is doing some really cool stuff in the mirrorless camera market. However that is mostly a niche pro market. Most consumers are perfectly happy to use their smart phone camera.
Honestly in a decade or so I can see them spinning off their consumer electronics business or outright selling it, keeping the gaming and media companies. I just can't see where they can go from here in the electronics business. Of course they still have commercial business units like their camera sensor business. I have no insight there, but again we're really looking at the consumer facing Sony here.
*They have reason to worry here too. Sony makes a number of TV shows for various networks, however due to the new realities of network TV (lower ratings, dropping viewers, and ad rate pushback from buyers) show ownership is playing a bigger and bigger part in what shows get picked up or renewed. Sony doesn't have its own network to fall back on so their only choice is to either field fewer and fewer shows, cut ludicrous first-run fee deals, or (and this is starting to happen now) give up a slice of their back end syndication and foreign rights money. Sony Television makes all their money on syndication deals, this is why you see shows like "The Rules of Engagement" stay on the air for 100 episodes despite poor ratings and odd timeslots. They practically give those final seasons to the networks to get it over the 88 or 100 episodes they need to create a syndication package.
Maybe Sony can produce a new Spiderman movie, it would sure to be a hit.
They did. It comes out July 7, 2017 . Well they sorta did. They outsourced writing and making it back to Marvel. So yea, it probably will be a hit now if they kept out of Marvel's way and let them do their thing.
You could say the same thing to Apple and its stagnating product lineup
Yea Apple needs to invent iResurrect. Love him or hate him, Jobs had a talent for finding and marketing that "next big thing" and he had the influence to make it happen. I don't think Apple is going to die off tomorrow but I don't see any really big, new products coming from them. I don't think they are going to have another Mac, or iPod, or iPhone moment again.
The ancients could monitor lightning as it happened too. But whether it was Zeus throwing them, or aliens, or "electricity" was just as equally "testable" to them, as the two explanations I mentioned...
In what way is this not testable? Please, enlighten me. Don't just say "because it's far away". That's bullshit.