It is interesting to me that drug companies are allowed patents that run out relatively soon (15 or 20 years, I think)
I think they have taken the easy way out and simply stall or "reinvent" the same drug with slight modifications when patents start expiring. I am not sure whether this can be pulled off with Mickey Mouse...
Anyways, now that drug companies can patent genes and charge for them, they have no need to make innovative drugs...
... non-multi-millionaires that seem to know better how to spend the millions that other people have.
He is not better than everyone else, but certainly is richer... and though Paypal is fairly evil, he is sorta entitled to spend his money the way he likes...
I am pretty sure that if one day you have too many millions to count you might take a different perspective on the space travel...
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I don't know where you got it.
A quick check on dell.com shows a quote of 599 for their cheapest P4 1.8 and that DOES NOT include a GeForce4 4400 (which is worth slightly less than 200 bucks). Are you a dell employee by any chance?
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Precisely! To get a decent machine so cheaply you must build your own athlon. And still you can not fit a decent monitor (15" don't count) for under $600.
Note how you built an athlon with PC133 memory. Now compare that to a P4 system (that does not work well with PC133 memory, I believe). And I assumed that original post referred to already built machine. Now you believe me that you can't get a good assembled P4 system for $600?
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WTF, man... I am not trying to troll here. You can buy a decent computer for $600 depending on your needs, sure. But in my opinion you can at best get a decent Athlon machine AND you have to assemble it yourself (or you pay someone to assembe and maybe warranty it). P4s are just more expensive and thus something else must give. Read the discussion in tomshardware.com
As to the monitor -- I had to get a refurbished 'cause I can't afford a good new one. And any bleeding edge machine costs AT LEAST 1.5K-3K but that's beside the point.
I bet the architects and people who produce building materials stall these efforts:). Not to mention that any news involving gadgets and multi-million dollar contracts is much more fun when an improved building material...
For #1, realize that this is going to greatly increase the data size of many applications. The larger the data size, the higher the chance of cache misses. In general, this is a loss, not a win.
wouldn't the chance of cache misses depend on the caching policy? How does the data size matter? If your policy is good, when your misses will be rare. Otherwise you're screwed even if it is 8-bit
The gain with 64-bit processors is one of address space and nothing more.
Which includes better behaviour for those programs that have to fake larger address space. That would be a speed increase.
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You can easily get a 2 GHz system with 256 MB RAM *and* a monitor for less than $600.
Sure and it will exactly as crippled as you might expect for such price. MB with built in crap + slow cheap harddrive + crappiest of GeForce2 series.
And you'll get crappy RAM and a crappy case...
Alternatively, a good expensive CRT monitor could cost you $600 (mine is $400 but its refurbished)
Now that Elcomsoft's president is in the US, they can use that as leverage to enforce their ruling, by imprisoning Elcomsoft's president until Elcomsoft acquiesces.
You're not serious, are you? Imprisoning Elcomsoft's president? Since when is the company president (or any of the officials) is *directly* responsible for its company behaviour? Unless there is a special clause for russian companies of course....
Uhm... Of course none of us are lawyers here... but why exactly would you go to trial with intention of losing it??
Can't you countersue right away? Is there anything good that can come out directly from this trial?
What can this case do? It seems to me that what Elcomsoft + Sklyarov did is clearly against DMCA.
So unless DMCA is repealed, they will be found guilty of violating it, no?
This is not deep-linking, they *did* break the copy protection. As wrong as DMCA might be, it is a law at the moment.
Not to be a troll, but anything that is a cinematics universe (Star Wars, Lexx, etc.) can not compete with a book. Cinematic universes are restricted by practical factors such as special-effects (can't beat human imagination yet).
I would also add that I am not aware of any sci-fi universe that spans so much time and space as Asimov's books do. I believe that more than half of his sci-fi fits into the universe that he is describing. The vision that is required in order to imagine and paint such a great picture is hard to come by. I will be watching how Episode 3 fits into the story line... if it is believable, when StarWars will have a few generations covered (and Asimov has many thousands of years)
In fact, I was astonished the other day at how cheap a new 2.X GHz machine was... I don't need one, but damn, they're cheap now.
One of the outcomes of the cycle you mentioned. faster==better, but since no one has much money the new generation of machines must also be cheaper...
All is not so simple though, since you would also be astonished at how *slow* can a cheap P4 2.0 run. They skim on all hardware, crippling the machine (like using GeForce2 MX or slow hard drive or crappy motherboard). tomshardware.com had an interesting discussion on the cutting edge systems...
The entire history of consumer electronics belies this statement. People demonstrably don't by a system because it's sufficient for their needs, they buy it because it's the most powerful one available.
Actually, this is not so true in today's economy. Most manufacturers are pretty screwd since less and less people must replace their machines. Fewer applications manage to outrun the hardware innovation (games for the most part, but they need the graphic card more than a processor). For example (though people do not believe me) I run windows 2000 on PII-300/96Ram and if not for the games would not have the slightest need to upgrade.
After all, my cell phone (and maybe my calculator) has more raw memory and computing power than the computer used by the men who flew to the Moon.
I might be wrong here, but I thought that the moon computer is actually not so powerful. Life critical uses tend to be very conservative and run software that has been tested for decades... thus I am pretty sure their hardware is reliable but not the newest.
Uhm, probably not.
I am still waiting for quantum computing to defeat all currently existing encryption mechanisms by easily solving all infeasibly difficult problems.
I guess there are some practical hurdles which I don't understand.
Well I guess the sacrifice of giving up on games is still too great for me:). So tell me, do you usually build your own laptops as well? It is true that desktops can be custom assembled at home and, personally, I don't mind doing that. I would clame that it is hardly an *easy* choice for an average consumer to resort to building own computer if they do not want Windows...
This starts sound a lot like cable monopoly argument. Don't like cable service? well, just move to another county or state....
...would be "Dreamland Chronicles: Freedom Ridge"
While the name is absolutely impossible to remember (really!), this game had everything to look forward too. Basically it was a new "UFO: enemy unknown" game with good graphics and very proper and broad physics.
Does anyone ever pick up games that were abandoned? I am still hoping this game will one day come out:)
Not supporting/buying their products is the best way to let them know that you're not satisfied with their product.
WHAT are you talking about? This is precisely one of the reasons MS is at the trial! It is too difficult (sometimes IMPOSSIBLE) to not buy their product nowdays. Due to their monopoly stranglehold it almost impossible to buy a computer without paying for a MS Windows licence even if I have NO intention of using MS Windows. Not to mention that those of us who want to play games/read MS Office documents/etc have no choice on what OS to use...
And here you are talking about not supporting their products... what planet are you from? I might give up on music or possibly even movies, but not on my computer...
If a woman can win a case against McDonalds for making coffee too hot and not warning her properly, why cant a State win a case against Microsoft for this? This, in my opinion, is FAR worse then not warning me my hot coffee might be too hot.
What exactly? Not warning you that your crappy Windows might be too crappy?
They made you pay more for it?!? That pretty much kills it in my books. I use my toner/ink, my paper, and save them money (less employees), and they CHARGE me for it?
You would think that this is illogical, wouldn't you?:)
That is nothing. What REALLY kills it, is the fact that convinience fee is charged PER ticket, regardless of number tickets purchased! Assuming convinience fee is paid for webserver/sys admin, it can not possibly cost them more to process multiple tickets at a time... yet each ticket incurs a fee.
They are saying; OK, look, you're busted
and, deep inside, you know you are busted. We are giving you a chance to avoid court and make this go away as if you were legit. Just pay this bill and you won't go to court.
Ok, now the question that this brings to my mind -- who the f***k are they to bill me for infringing some third party's copyright? Article, at least, says nothing about them being hired by copyright owners.
If you are not doing anything illegal - you have nothing to worry about!
Ah, but it should be "If you are doing something illegal, you have something to worry about". The question of people who downloaded blank files remains... If I were to steal some free books from a bookstore, can I be fined for anything?? Even if I did mean to steal some valuable books?
If any of the victims of this fold and just pay, shame on them.IINAL, esp not a danish one, so I don't know how the court systems work over there, but I have a feeling this same case in America would be thrown out of court.
I do not have to be a lawyer to see that even seemingly ridiculuous cases are not thrown out fast enough for individuals to afford it. Shame on them, yes... but would you stand up and go to court if that meant your life will be screwd over in the process?
Have you noticed how many buisnesses bent in front of PanIP claims? And those were small companies... clearly on a slightly larger budget than an average individual...
Wow man, I think you need to stop sucking on that crack pipe. Just how could the cable company tell when I change the channel on my TV?
If you check your cable channels closely, you will see that they offer a pay per view service that allows (using existing remote) to not only to view movies but to stop and/or rewind them. To me this implies that there is *some* feedback coming from my remote that can be classified...
It has been pointed out in the previous discussion, but I think it is important enough to repeat again. In this particular case he is often getting paid flat rate (22K?) per huge spam batch. So while it would be great if no one ever bought spam advertised crap, that is *not* enough. Even once people completely stop buying this crap, it might take a while for spammer companies to change their ways. Spam is quite cheap compared to any other form of advertizement, so it always pays for itself...
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I think they have taken the easy way out and simply stall or "reinvent" the same drug with slight modifications when patents start expiring. I am not sure whether this can be pulled off with Mickey Mouse...
Anyways, now that drug companies can patent genes and charge for them, they have no need to make innovative drugs...
... non-multi-millionaires that seem to know better how to spend the millions that other people have.
He is not better than everyone else, but certainly is richer... and though Paypal is fairly evil, he is sorta entitled to spend his money the way he likes...
I am pretty sure that if one day you have too many millions to count you might take a different perspective on the space travel...
I don't know where you got it. A quick check on dell.com shows a quote of 599 for their cheapest P4 1.8 and that DOES NOT include a GeForce4 4400 (which is worth slightly less than 200 bucks). Are you a dell employee by any chance?
Note how you built an athlon with PC133 memory. Now compare that to a P4 system (that does not work well with PC133 memory, I believe). And I assumed that original post referred to already built machine. Now you believe me that you can't get a good assembled P4 system for $600?
As to the monitor -- I had to get a refurbished 'cause I can't afford a good new one. And any bleeding edge machine costs AT LEAST 1.5K-3K but that's beside the point.
I bet the architects and people who produce building materials stall these efforts :). Not to mention that any news involving gadgets and multi-million dollar contracts is much more fun when an improved building material...
wouldn't the chance of cache misses depend on the caching policy? How does the data size matter? If your policy is good, when your misses will be rare. Otherwise you're screwed even if it is 8-bit
The gain with 64-bit processors is one of address space and nothing more.
Which includes better behaviour for those programs that have to fake larger address space. That would be a speed increase.
Sure and it will exactly as crippled as you might expect for such price. MB with built in crap + slow cheap harddrive + crappiest of GeForce2 series. And you'll get crappy RAM and a crappy case...
Alternatively, a good expensive CRT monitor could cost you $600 (mine is $400 but its refurbished)
You're not serious, are you? Imprisoning Elcomsoft's president? Since when is the company president (or any of the officials) is *directly* responsible for its company behaviour? Unless there is a special clause for russian companies of course....
Uhm... Of course none of us are lawyers here... but why exactly would you go to trial with intention of losing it??
Can't you countersue right away? Is there anything good that can come out directly from this trial?
This is not deep-linking, they *did* break the copy protection. As wrong as DMCA might be, it is a law at the moment.
Not to be a troll, but anything that is a cinematics universe (Star Wars, Lexx, etc.) can not compete with a book. Cinematic universes are restricted by practical factors such as special-effects (can't beat human imagination yet).
I would also add that I am not aware of any sci-fi universe that spans so much time and space as Asimov's books do. I believe that more than half of his sci-fi fits into the universe that he is describing. The vision that is required in order to imagine and paint such a great picture is hard to come by. I will be watching how Episode 3 fits into the story line... if it is believable, when StarWars will have a few generations covered (and Asimov has many thousands of years)
One of the outcomes of the cycle you mentioned. faster==better, but since no one has much money the new generation of machines must also be cheaper...
All is not so simple though, since you would also be astonished at how *slow* can a cheap P4 2.0 run. They skim on all hardware, crippling the machine (like using GeForce2 MX or slow hard drive or crappy motherboard). tomshardware.com had an interesting discussion on the cutting edge systems...
Actually, this is not so true in today's economy. Most manufacturers are pretty screwd since less and less people must replace their machines. Fewer applications manage to outrun the hardware innovation (games for the most part, but they need the graphic card more than a processor). For example (though people do not believe me) I run windows 2000 on PII-300/96Ram and if not for the games would not have the slightest need to upgrade.
After all, my cell phone (and maybe my calculator) has more raw memory and computing power than the computer used by the men who flew to the Moon.
I might be wrong here, but I thought that the moon computer is actually not so powerful. Life critical uses tend to be very conservative and run software that has been tested for decades... thus I am pretty sure their hardware is reliable but not the newest.
I am still waiting for quantum computing to defeat all currently existing encryption mechanisms by easily solving all infeasibly difficult problems.
I guess there are some practical hurdles which I don't understand.
Well I guess the sacrifice of giving up on games is still too great for me :). So tell me, do you usually build your own laptops as well?
It is true that desktops can be custom assembled at home and, personally, I don't mind doing that. I would clame that it is hardly an *easy* choice for an average consumer to resort to building own computer if they do not want Windows...
This starts sound a lot like cable monopoly argument. Don't like cable service? well, just move to another county or state....
Does anyone ever pick up games that were abandoned? I am still hoping this game will one day come out :)
WHAT are you talking about? This is precisely one of the reasons MS is at the trial! It is too difficult (sometimes IMPOSSIBLE) to not buy their product nowdays.
Due to their monopoly stranglehold it almost impossible to buy a computer without paying for a MS Windows licence even if I have NO intention of using MS Windows. Not to mention that those of us who want to play games/read MS Office documents/etc have no choice on what OS to use...
And here you are talking about not supporting their products... what planet are you from? I might give up on music or possibly even movies, but not on my computer...
What exactly? Not warning you that your crappy Windows might be too crappy?
Well, once they got most of slashdot crowd moving to MA, they should have plenty of funding...
You would think that this is illogical, wouldn't you? :)
That is nothing. What REALLY kills it, is the fact that convinience fee is charged PER ticket, regardless of number tickets purchased! Assuming convinience fee is paid for webserver/sys admin, it can not possibly cost them more to process multiple tickets at a time... yet each ticket incurs a fee.
Ok, now the question that this brings to my mind -- who the f***k are they to bill me for infringing some third party's copyright? Article, at least, says nothing about them being hired by copyright owners.
If you are not doing anything illegal - you have nothing to worry about!
Ah, but it should be "If you are doing something illegal, you have something to worry about". The question of people who downloaded blank files remains... If I were to steal some free books from a bookstore, can I be fined for anything?? Even if I did mean to steal some valuable books?
I do not have to be a lawyer to see that even seemingly ridiculuous cases are not thrown out fast enough for individuals to afford it. Shame on them, yes... but would you stand up and go to court if that meant your life will be screwd over in the process?
Have you noticed how many buisnesses bent in front of PanIP claims? And those were small companies... clearly on a slightly larger budget than an average individual...
If you check your cable channels closely, you will see that they offer a pay per view service that allows (using existing remote) to not only to view movies but to stop and/or rewind them. To me this implies that there is *some* feedback coming from my remote that can be classified...
It has been pointed out in the previous discussion, but I think it is important enough to repeat again. In this particular case he is often getting paid flat rate (22K?) per huge spam batch. So while it would be great if no one ever bought spam advertised crap, that is *not* enough. Even once people completely stop buying this crap, it might take a while for spammer companies to change their ways. Spam is quite cheap compared to any other form of advertizement, so it always pays for itself...