I actually think they deserve some credit for this. It will cost them a fortune. Better that they hadn't made the mistake in the first place, but then again, these things happen occasionally and cases of software companies paying for damages caused by their bugs are extremely rare.
He may only be able to get $50k for the lot, but he can sell them all a dozen times.
Are you impugning the dignity of this entreprenuer? A man's word is his bond, and the most valuable asset he possesses. I'd be surprised if he isn't contacting legal counsel to initiate legal action against you for defamation of character as we speak!
You don't think this happens at private companies?
It's sort of like medicare fraud. Private insurers struggle with insurance fraud all the time too, but people feel like money one or two steps away from the taxes they paid is actually still theirs, so they are more attached to it.
Is your post serious? This is laughable. I can see it now, people jeering at Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity, "why do we need more sparks?"
And that's ignoring the fact that Marxism childishly assumes all economic transactions are zero-sum and wealth can never be created.
There is an equally childish school of thought that grabbing up whatever you can get your hands on is no crime, since you must by definition have "earned" it and therefore are entitled to it. Both extremes are wrong.
99.99% of users will "consent" to it by clicking OK rather than spending 45 minutes plowing through legalize the next time they boot up their console to play a game.
Ideally you would never agree to something you hadn't read, but that is no longer feasible in the modern world, and intentionally so.
The "newsgroup" service that Usenet was designed for is now superseded by Google Groups (who absorbed DejaNews, the site that aimed to archive every Usenet post ever), zillions of web forums, blogs, comment friendly sites like, um, the one you're reading this on called Slashdot... get the point?
It's sad how proprietary services are displacing open standards on the Internet. The rise of Twitter over email is another example, and web chat over IRC is another.
It's sad because it shows complete freedom / anarchy doesn't work very well, not even in so-called "cyberspace." There goes another generation of utopian aspirations:(
Depends what you mean by terrible acts, though. Obviously the percentage of suicide bombers and hijackers is small... That stuff is going to be approaching 0% with Christians
And when we bomb people we do it in a civilized fashion - from a safe distance.
There are plenty of people -- possibly a majority -- in the US, other Western countries, and on Slashdot who support freedom "X" in principle but are opposed to any specific use of freedom "X".
Just look at 99% of the reader responses to this cnn story about the outcome of a lawsuit over protests near a military funeral. The father of the dead soldier filed a suit against the protesters; he not only lost, but was ordered to pay attorney fees. So the court protected free speech. But look at the reader responses at the bottom of the page.
More than likely for the next several decades hard-core gamers will want a dedicated video card.
The 3dfx Voodoo card was released less than 1.5 decades ago. Game console generations are getting longer and longer. My crystal ball says few people will be buying standalone graphics cards in 5 years.
Geometry: I'll admit that most office and web applications currently use much simpler geometry than a typical Xbox 360-class 3D game.
I would be shocked if the GPU integrated into Intel's next-gen CPU doesn't blow away what's in the XBox 360, which after all is a medium-high end card from 2005. And yet, you'll notice there seems to be little push for next-gen consoles beyond the XBox 360 and PS3. Integrated video will eventually be good enough for most applications including games, the question is not if but when.
Granted, top GPUs have transistor counts comparable to top CPUs. On the other hand, the 8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX has as many transistors as an NVidia GT200 PLUS a Six-Core Opteron 2400, which sounds to me like a perfectly fine gaming rig.
Life is not defined scientifically, period. It's a perceived property. You can try to define it rigorously, but (as always, outside pure mathematics) there's nothing substantial separating the marginal cases on this or that side of the boundary. For myself, I'm not engaging in any more long-winded arguments about whether virii or fires are alive. If they are, then they hardly are; if they're not, then they almost are. Case closed.
The problem with mandating a particular language(s) is that these are subject to change with time. A legal framework should stand the test of time, and thus not include requirements for "Python". Python might not exist in five years, or may become obsolete in five years.
You could say the same for English, since it changes constantly. Then again, English never had well-defined syntax or semantics in the first place...
One reference language is a far better choice than a whole slew of them. To much unnecessary flexibility just adds complexity. Even if mainstream Python went in a different direction, the legally mandated dialect would survive for that purpose.
Hrmm? There is indeed an underlying physical barrier, you know, the size of the atoms that make up the darn things. It can only get so small.
And yet, if the article is to be believed, that is not the cause of the current stagnation in SSD pricing - rather, it's market dynamics. Of course physical limits exist, one might even suspect them of dooming SSD's to forever lag hard drives in capacity, but the article says on the contrary recent pricing is just due to market dynamics.
Moore's law states nothing on the processing technology and only on the fact that feature(transistor) count will double every 2 years.
In other words, it's actually more applicable to memory than it is to processors. Memory is direct a function of transistor density as you can get.
The price will only go down as the process size goes down, currently at 32nm with Intel's Latest drives. Once it reaches 8nm or the like then the cost will truly be comparable to Hard Drives. Until then, don't expect a miracle.
Really, that's just re-stating the matter. According to Moore's law, the process size decreases like clockwork, like the sun rising in the east every morning, and end-user pricing decreases correspondingly. Well, it turns out the predictive value of a single-parameter model like Moore's law is pretty weak over the short term. Process size reductions don't just appear like manna from heaven. Market dynamics, including the "great recession" of the last couple years can and do get in the way of progress, even if there's no underlying physical barrier in the way (as we saw when clock speeds topped out).
Well, what is the big story here? All this debate about the intrigue, but what did they actually learn? Basically all I see is it has a second camera with a flash. I thought that was already known, or maybe I am thinking of some other phone that recently got that. But bottom line, is this enough of a "revelation" for anybody to care how it came about?
Heh, what do you think happened with Madoff for 20 years?
Well, what do you think happened? I think he hoodwinked everybody including regulators with his reputation and (in the case of his shareholders) consistently high returns dissuading them from asking questions.
But the point remains, once the (rather negligent) regulators realized what was happening, he was prosecuted.
Regulation in general is tough. The incentives for good regulation will NEVER be 10% as good as the incentives given to those who need to be regulated. If the government paid a regulator $20 million it would be a scandal, even though they're regulating people who make 10 times that.
Remember the election of 2004? Bush/Cheney/Rove ran a campaign based on naked fear. At the Republican National Convention, Zell Miller railed against Kerry for opposing exotic bomber programs that have nothing to do with fighting terrorism.
And it worked.
In fact, the Bush ad I linked is just a recycle of Reagan's Bear in the Woods commercial from 20 years previous. Fear always works.
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In this case, what are the damages exactly?
I actually think they deserve some credit for this. It will cost them a fortune. Better that they hadn't made the mistake in the first place, but then again, these things happen occasionally and cases of software companies paying for damages caused by their bugs are extremely rare.
Are you impugning the dignity of this entreprenuer? A man's word is his bond, and the most valuable asset he possesses. I'd be surprised if he isn't contacting legal counsel to initiate legal action against you for defamation of character as we speak!
But I would rather have a "smart grid" that tells my thermostat how much power is costing right now, and I decide when enough is enough.
Child's play. Now, a full body replacement from the neck down, that would be something!
Maybe it was a trade!
It's sort of like medicare fraud. Private insurers struggle with insurance fraud all the time too, but people feel like money one or two steps away from the taxes they paid is actually still theirs, so they are more attached to it.
Is your post serious? This is laughable. I can see it now, people jeering at Ben Franklin's experiments with electricity, "why do we need more sparks?"
Welcome to the Internet, where you can take a look and see for yourself with just a single click.
There is an equally childish school of thought that grabbing up whatever you can get your hands on is no crime, since you must by definition have "earned" it and therefore are entitled to it. Both extremes are wrong.
That's the problem; 2560x1600 is basically just 2x 1600x1200, which has been available for... I don't even know. Surely over a decade.
Summary: all the claims were true.
99.99% of users will "consent" to it by clicking OK rather than spending 45 minutes plowing through legalize the next time they boot up their console to play a game.
Ideally you would never agree to something you hadn't read, but that is no longer feasible in the modern world, and intentionally so.
It's sad how proprietary services are displacing open standards on the Internet. The rise of Twitter over email is another example, and web chat over IRC is another.
It's sad because it shows complete freedom / anarchy doesn't work very well, not even in so-called "cyberspace." There goes another generation of utopian aspirations :(
And when we bomb people we do it in a civilized fashion - from a safe distance.
Just look at 99% of the reader responses to this cnn story about the outcome of a lawsuit over protests near a military funeral. The father of the dead soldier filed a suit against the protesters; he not only lost, but was ordered to pay attorney fees. So the court protected free speech. But look at the reader responses at the bottom of the page.
The 3dfx Voodoo card was released less than 1.5 decades ago. Game console generations are getting longer and longer. My crystal ball says few people will be buying standalone graphics cards in 5 years.
I would be shocked if the GPU integrated into Intel's next-gen CPU doesn't blow away what's in the XBox 360, which after all is a medium-high end card from 2005. And yet, you'll notice there seems to be little push for next-gen consoles beyond the XBox 360 and PS3. Integrated video will eventually be good enough for most applications including games, the question is not if but when.
Granted, top GPUs have transistor counts comparable to top CPUs. On the other hand, the 8-Core Xeon Nehalem-EX has as many transistors as an NVidia GT200 PLUS a Six-Core Opteron 2400, which sounds to me like a perfectly fine gaming rig.
Life is not defined scientifically, period. It's a perceived property. You can try to define it rigorously, but (as always, outside pure mathematics) there's nothing substantial separating the marginal cases on this or that side of the boundary. For myself, I'm not engaging in any more long-winded arguments about whether virii or fires are alive. If they are, then they hardly are; if they're not, then they almost are. Case closed.
You could say the same for English, since it changes constantly. Then again, English never had well-defined syntax or semantics in the first place...
One reference language is a far better choice than a whole slew of them. To much unnecessary flexibility just adds complexity. Even if mainstream Python went in a different direction, the legally mandated dialect would survive for that purpose.
And yet, if the article is to be believed, that is not the cause of the current stagnation in SSD pricing - rather, it's market dynamics. Of course physical limits exist, one might even suspect them of dooming SSD's to forever lag hard drives in capacity, but the article says on the contrary recent pricing is just due to market dynamics.
In other words, it's actually more applicable to memory than it is to processors. Memory is direct a function of transistor density as you can get.
Really, that's just re-stating the matter. According to Moore's law, the process size decreases like clockwork, like the sun rising in the east every morning, and end-user pricing decreases correspondingly. Well, it turns out the predictive value of a single-parameter model like Moore's law is pretty weak over the short term. Process size reductions don't just appear like manna from heaven. Market dynamics, including the "great recession" of the last couple years can and do get in the way of progress, even if there's no underlying physical barrier in the way (as we saw when clock speeds topped out).
Well, what is the big story here? All this debate about the intrigue, but what did they actually learn? Basically all I see is it has a second camera with a flash. I thought that was already known, or maybe I am thinking of some other phone that recently got that. But bottom line, is this enough of a "revelation" for anybody to care how it came about?
Well, what do you think happened? I think he hoodwinked everybody including regulators with his reputation and (in the case of his shareholders) consistently high returns dissuading them from asking questions.
But the point remains, once the (rather negligent) regulators realized what was happening, he was prosecuted.
Regulation in general is tough. The incentives for good regulation will NEVER be 10% as good as the incentives given to those who need to be regulated. If the government paid a regulator $20 million it would be a scandal, even though they're regulating people who make 10 times that.
And it worked.
In fact, the Bush ad I linked is just a recycle of Reagan's Bear in the Woods commercial from 20 years previous. Fear always works.