Apparently, none of those are "products" in your opinion.
Well, Linux is not a product. It is a kernel that features heavily in a Product called RedHat.
Part of being a product is being sold. I'm not sure what sort of difference that is supposed to make in a legal sense, though.
Hammer has 40 bits of addressing space (as you mentioned) and 48 bits of virtual space (memory map tables) so it's not quite out of the memory limit woods yet.
That sounds like an implementation detail; it makes sense to only support 40 address lines when that's a fair bit more than you're likely to see before a process shrink or revision of the architecture. Extra lines cost money, and there's no reason to spend that money if it won't be put to use.
Finally if you check the licence agreement that comes with your Blizzard games you will see
Unfortunately for Blizzard, they sell software. They don't license it. In at least a couple of states judges have ruled that when you sell software like a CD, it is treated like a CD - physical media + fair use rights, but no license beyond that.
if the courts ever accept the claim that people freely violated the copyright on a recording and that RIAA or the artist knew about it and did nothing, the recording goes into the public domain with no copyrights
What are you talking about? That's Trademark law, not Copyright.
Yeah, I've been wondering how long it'll take before increase in frequency becomes so difficult that people finally realise that fine grained parallelism is the only way to go
It'll be a while. Not only is there a lack of demand for that level of power (at least in the mass market), but massively parallel programming is a bitch and a half.
First off, B.Net is a free service run at Blizzard's expense. The only catch is that you need a licensed copy of the game to connect to it.
First off, a Bnet clone does not infringe on Blizzard's copyright. Secondly the clones generate no load on Bnet, so any arguments as to its freeness are specious.
I don't agree that Blizzard is justified in its efforts to shut down Bnet clones; all arguments i've seen in support of it seem to base themselves on Blizzard's business model. If multiple Bnet clones are created and it fragments Blizzard's audience to the point that people stop buying Starcraft and Warcraft 3, that's unfortunate, but it's not illegal.
Fox digital broadcasts are not simply "480 lines". They are 480p, like a progressive scan DVD player. While a FAR cry from CBS's 1080i, or from ABC's 720p, it is still much better than what most people see even on their DVD's.
Actually, that matches what i see on my DVD. I also get 5.1 sound, there's no reason to drop $BIGNUM on a decoder
'Japanese for busy people' and other business Japanese books should be god, but don't neglect the cuture gap! Get stuff like 'Japanese Code Words' so you won't be blindsided when you run into something that looks like insanity.
If you're in New York or Seattle, loiter in KinoKuniya - it's a large Japanese bookstore
Therefore, to make a bazillion bucks, all you need to do is put together a business with smart managers instead of dumb ones, so that all the techs will be tickled pink to go to work, and product quality will soar. Right?
If you miss a market window your potential market share starts to drop exponentially as competitors take the lead.
Absolutely not true, as demonstrated by countless dot-bombs. What actually happens is that you watch them screw stuff up, then release just a bit later, accompanied with ads about how your stuff actually works.
people would trade any artist/any recording quality just to make their trade list look more impressive.
When trading costs you little, and maintenance is likewise cheap, this is actually a good idea. You're betting that the guy who's got something you really want will want some strange thing that you've already got.
I wonder if companies could successfully file issues with the World Trade Organization to indicate that regionlocks could be considered a 'restraint of trade' issue.
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Apparently, none of those are "products" in your opinion.
Well, Linux is not a product. It is a kernel that features heavily in a Product called RedHat. Part of being a product is being sold. I'm not sure what sort of difference that is supposed to make in a legal sense, though.
One of my good friend's last name is Lynch. I guess he's screwed.
Yes, but is he hung?
Hammer has 40 bits of addressing space (as you mentioned) and 48 bits of virtual space (memory map tables) so it's not quite out of the memory limit woods yet.
That sounds like an implementation detail; it makes sense to only support 40 address lines when that's a fair bit more than you're likely to see before a process shrink or revision of the architecture. Extra lines cost money, and there's no reason to spend that money if it won't be put to use.
So it's OK to put Blizzard out of business?
It's not necessarily a good thing, but it isn't illegal.
Finally if you check the licence agreement that comes with your Blizzard games you will see
Unfortunately for Blizzard, they sell software. They don't license it. In at least a couple of states judges have ruled that when you sell software like a CD, it is treated like a CD - physical media + fair use rights, but no license beyond that.
if the courts ever accept the claim that people freely violated the copyright on a recording and that RIAA or the artist knew about it and did nothing, the recording goes into the public domain with no copyrights
What are you talking about? That's Trademark law, not Copyright.
More telling - could she have bought the CD if she wanted to? I'm 26 and half the stuff i want is simply not available except on services like Kazaa
Does anyone know what .NET is?
Yes. It is a marketing strategy.
From the government?
Forget encryption. Piss them off and they'll come after you directly.
which results in a threefold increase in speed from linear NFS implementation
Three times? That's what, 1.5 bits? surely there's something more to it than that.
Yeah, I've been wondering how long it'll take before increase in frequency becomes so difficult that people finally realise that fine grained parallelism is the only way to go
It'll be a while. Not only is there a lack of demand for that level of power (at least in the mass market), but massively parallel programming is a bitch and a half.
But can the new windows versions actually get up to 100Mbps yet?
Sure 100Mbit, but most PCs can't handle 100Gbit - that's 2 orders of magnitude faster that standard PCI.
First off, B.Net is a free service run at Blizzard's expense. The only catch is that you need a licensed copy of the game to connect to it.
First off, a Bnet clone does not infringe on Blizzard's copyright. Secondly the clones generate no load on Bnet, so any arguments as to its freeness are specious.
I don't agree that Blizzard is justified in its efforts to shut down Bnet clones; all arguments i've seen in support of it seem to base themselves on Blizzard's business model. If multiple Bnet clones are created and it fragments Blizzard's audience to the point that people stop buying Starcraft and Warcraft 3, that's unfortunate, but it's not illegal.
You are supposed to win by any means necessary
No, this is a game. you are supposed to enjoy yourself. Winning by any means necessary is for real life.
When you get a few hundred thousand users on a server it's going to slow down
Not so. It's just hard to convince 100,000 people to use your network just to test your new net code
Fox digital broadcasts are not simply "480 lines". They are 480p, like a progressive scan DVD player. While a FAR cry from CBS's 1080i, or from ABC's 720p, it is still much better than what most people see even on their DVD's.
Actually, that matches what i see on my DVD. I also get 5.1 sound, there's no reason to drop $BIGNUM on a decoder
'Japanese for busy people' and other business Japanese books should be god, but don't neglect the cuture gap! Get stuff like 'Japanese Code Words' so you won't be blindsided when you run into something that looks like insanity.
If you're in New York or Seattle, loiter in KinoKuniya - it's a large Japanese bookstore
Therefore, to make a bazillion bucks, all you need to do is put together a business with smart managers instead of dumb ones, so that all the techs will be tickled pink to go to work, and product quality will soar. Right?
Isn't this what Toyota did in the 60s and 70s?
If you miss a market window your potential market share starts to drop exponentially as competitors take the lead.
Absolutely not true, as demonstrated by countless dot-bombs. What actually happens is that you watch them screw stuff up, then release just a bit later, accompanied with ads about how your stuff actually works.
people would trade any artist/any recording quality just to make their trade list look more impressive.
When trading costs you little, and maintenance is likewise cheap, this is actually a good idea. You're betting that the guy who's got something you really want will want some strange thing that you've already got.
Like copying credit card numbers and magstripes, you mean?
Like copying the bills.
the same people who come on here and whine about DRM
Speaking for myself, I whine about DRM because I don't think that stuff like DeCSS is worthy of being a felony.
I wonder if companies could successfully file issues with the World Trade Organization to indicate that regionlocks could be considered a 'restraint of trade' issue.
Australia, are you listening?
So, what are the chances I can hook my controller into a USB port and read the USB ID that it declares.