Patents last for 20 years (in the US) I think gunpowder and paper were both common knowledge across China, and for more than 20 years before it became common in the west. Place your straw man elsewhere.
We only execute them if there's a reasonable expectation that they knew what they did was wrong before they did it. I know it's the current fashion to rip on the big bad USA, but at least get a fucking clue.
Bad things happen. People do the wrong things for what they feel is the right reason. Our task is to deal with it. It happens everywhere, though. We detain SOME Muslims. Some Muslims kidnap and kill Americans. Does that mean that Muslims are bad?
Rhetoric is wonderful, isn't it kids...
I always thought the saying was "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
But manufacturing quality in general has gone down the tubes. It's a $49.99 DVD player or a $100 printer for a reason... it's not even worth the raw materials it's made from.
The patent system wasn't created to patent objects that never get created. It was made so that people who come up with an idea can create it and sell it with monopoly ownership on that idea for a limited ammount of time. It would be like Eli Whitney filing a patent for a mechanical method of seperating cotton seads from cotton without inventing the cotton gin.
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Being able to patent an idea without having to have a working implementation stifles work because otherwise people who have the same idea and actually put the work in to develop a working implementation would have to pay money to those that just see where the market is going. Like the company that is saying that anyone who does streaming media owes them money. They saw where the market was going and patented the idea. They didn't make any form of product while other people did. Nor did they try to sell their concept to others. They are just trying to rake in money from liscensing for it.
Patents were made so that the ideas and knowlege behind something eventually reach the public domain. By not developing the knowlege and only patenting the idea, you are not doing this. You are stifling the system. Hence why there should be a working implementation.
The problem is that many small inventors are unable to provide the capital to create a working version. This doesn't apply to software, but it does apply to other patentable objects. That's why a working version isn't required. And that's what's inherently wrong with being able to patent intellectual property, because of the fact that it is not property (In my, and many other's, humble opinion(s))
I beleive it means that you can make a lookup table relatively cheaply, rather than having to generate it on demand, and thus greatly speed up the LM hacking.
Why not put the CD's under the seat or something? Somewhere where they aren't in the direct sunlight? But you probably didn't ever read the warnings about UV damage and such to CD's, did you...
I agreed with this until the 4th paragraph. NVidia can't open their drivers because they have code in it licensed from other people whose IP they use. It's that simple. The actual architecture for the driver is relatively easy to discern if you look at their distribution, the only thing that's hidden is the code that actually talks to the board.
These other drivers are hidden because companies have just always done it that way. Why should they change things? It's always worked before. They don't realize that the community will help them greatly if they open things up a bit. It's old-world versus new-world, and it's just taking some time to get old-world to come around.
I'm either responding to a troll or a moron.
The OS runs in 32bit mode. All the benchmark apps run at 32bits. The 64bitness of the Athlon64 isn't even touched in any these tests, so it's a non-issue.
Intel is slow because it is slow, period. The Athlon64s, Opterons, etc are AMD's 32bit offerings as well as their 64bit ones.
Please drink less of the Kool-Aid, mmkay?
You do realize that a) you can disable all the 'bunch of crap' on the motherboard in the BIOS, and it won't take up any resources and b) much of the 'bunch of crap' on recent motherboards is actually rather good hardware? I used to be a snob like you, but then I realized that the onboard stuff really isn't always dog poo. There's a reason it's on there.
It was rated funny to keep you from getting as much karma from it.
They didn't want you to get karma because it was a knee-jerk reaction on your part, and a rather stupid one at that. I suppose the mods don't care if you LOSE respect for the community.
One can only be offended if one chooses to be so. Perhaps you should simply lighten up and take it at face value. It wasn't meant as a belittling of that accomplishment in any way, shape or form.
But then again, that's America for you. BTW, I'm offended that you didn't know the real facts of the marines raising the flag, miket. I am 'loosing' respect for you. (that was irony coupled with sarcasm, for those of you who didn't get it)
KNode is a newsreader. It uses the news protocol. Why would it need disconnected operations? It doesn't have anything at a filesystem type level where the kioslaves would be useful.
The features are very good. You're just a twit.
RTFA. This isn't about handlers. This is about having a universal way to access other things over the network from within the system, using many different protocols, all transparently.
...you're an idiot. Go read the article. This isn't about applications using handlers, it's being able to access things through a secure, universal scheme rather than having to re-implement their own POP3 or IMAP or SFTP or whatever protocol handler.
Says the person with the situational ethics sig.
Perhaps you should just read the article and not pay attention to the slashblurb? Whether it's Slashvertising or not, it's still interesting.
An XBox is currently $150 at Worst Buy. It was $300 new, IIRC. I would GLADLY pay $300 right now if I could be reasonably sure I'd get a piece of hardware that worked like my old NES, or Atari 2600, both of which are still running like champs.
The problem is that they don't give me the option of buying something that's durable and functional. They add features to increase the price, not reliability, like you said.
And I have PATA drives in my computer because they're actually pretty functional, and wear exactly as I'd expect them to. Almost all of my hard drives have lasted for over 5 years, many of them longer than that. That's about what I expect for a $150 piece of hardware.
I don't want to deal with the hassle of buying another XBox from MS, not to mention the fact that I am still spending money I could use elsewhere, as well as wasting time I could do something much more interesting with than dick with MS and the vendor over warranties. I just want something that works as advertised. But I suppose that's too much to ask.
Go troll somewhere else.
You're a well-trained little consumer, aren't you?
Gone are the days of actually making robust products, no, we'll give them warranties. Chances are that even if it does break, people won't hit companies up for the warranties, especially if they're limited time. It's a profit increasing mechanism.
Ever seen the movie Tommy Boy? Warranties on brake pads? A warranty does a fat lot of good if the brakes fail. Give me a well-built product any day, even my consumer electronics. Enough of this throw-away crap.
Well,/. has a mostly US audience, and it's daytime over here when the story came out, so... wouldn't we have moved a fraction of an inch closer to the sun, rather than away from it?
a) FAQ says that this site is primarily US. Deal.
b) All good geeks know what a Dremel is, and often have one. They're really freaking handy in many, many instances. This is just a new use for it many may not have thought of.
c) Get your egotistical, elitist, twittish self and take thee outside. Less trolling going on that way.
I think you missed the word 'architecture' in there. The blades and such all use the same type of processor. The Opteron is an X86 based processor, a total departure from what they have otherwise.
No one ever said anything about the actual number of processors.
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Patents last for 20 years (in the US) I think gunpowder and paper were both common knowledge across China, and for more than 20 years before it became common in the west. Place your straw man elsewhere.
We only execute them if there's a reasonable expectation that they knew what they did was wrong before they did it. I know it's the current fashion to rip on the big bad USA, but at least get a fucking clue.
Bad things happen. People do the wrong things for what they feel is the right reason. Our task is to deal with it. It happens everywhere, though. We detain SOME Muslims. Some Muslims kidnap and kill Americans. Does that mean that Muslims are bad?
Rhetoric is wonderful, isn't it kids...
Without the 'phone' part, you have no sound. Headphones is more or less etymologically "head sounders". Gramaphone, phonograph, all that.
Which is also wrong. Jesus. I thought geeks came to slashdot.
10 PRINT "He's dead, Jim"
20 BEEP
30 GOTO 20
I always thought the saying was "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
But manufacturing quality in general has gone down the tubes. It's a $49.99 DVD player or a $100 printer for a reason... it's not even worth the raw materials it's made from.
The problem is that many small inventors are unable to provide the capital to create a working version. This doesn't apply to software, but it does apply to other patentable objects. That's why a working version isn't required.
And that's what's inherently wrong with being able to patent intellectual property, because of the fact that it is not property (In my, and many other's, humble opinion(s))
I beleive it means that you can make a lookup table relatively cheaply, rather than having to generate it on demand, and thus greatly speed up the LM hacking.
Why not put the CD's under the seat or something? Somewhere where they aren't in the direct sunlight? But you probably didn't ever read the warnings about UV damage and such to CD's, did you...
I agreed with this until the 4th paragraph. NVidia can't open their drivers because they have code in it licensed from other people whose IP they use. It's that simple. The actual architecture for the driver is relatively easy to discern if you look at their distribution, the only thing that's hidden is the code that actually talks to the board.
These other drivers are hidden because companies have just always done it that way. Why should they change things? It's always worked before. They don't realize that the community will help them greatly if they open things up a bit. It's old-world versus new-world, and it's just taking some time to get old-world to come around.
You do realize that it's this kind of paranoia and fearmongering that got things like the PATRIOT act and DMCA passed?
I'm either responding to a troll or a moron.
The OS runs in 32bit mode. All the benchmark apps run at 32bits. The 64bitness of the Athlon64 isn't even touched in any these tests, so it's a non-issue.
Intel is slow because it is slow, period. The Athlon64s, Opterons, etc are AMD's 32bit offerings as well as their 64bit ones.
Please drink less of the Kool-Aid, mmkay?
You do realize that a) you can disable all the 'bunch of crap' on the motherboard in the BIOS, and it won't take up any resources and b) much of the 'bunch of crap' on recent motherboards is actually rather good hardware? I used to be a snob like you, but then I realized that the onboard stuff really isn't always dog poo. There's a reason it's on there.
Is there anyone here who can translate "moron"? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
It was rated funny to keep you from getting as much karma from it.
They didn't want you to get karma because it was a knee-jerk reaction on your part, and a rather stupid one at that. I suppose the mods don't care if you LOSE respect for the community.
One can only be offended if one chooses to be so. Perhaps you should simply lighten up and take it at face value. It wasn't meant as a belittling of that accomplishment in any way, shape or form.
But then again, that's America for you. BTW, I'm offended that you didn't know the real facts of the marines raising the flag, miket. I am 'loosing' respect for you. (that was irony coupled with sarcasm, for those of you who didn't get it)
KNode is a newsreader. It uses the news protocol. Why would it need disconnected operations? It doesn't have anything at a filesystem type level where the kioslaves would be useful.
The features are very good. You're just a twit.
RTFA. This isn't about handlers. This is about having a universal way to access other things over the network from within the system, using many different protocols, all transparently.
...you're an idiot. Go read the article. This isn't about applications using handlers, it's being able to access things through a secure, universal scheme rather than having to re-implement their own POP3 or IMAP or SFTP or whatever protocol handler.
Says the person with the situational ethics sig.
Perhaps you should just read the article and not pay attention to the slashblurb? Whether it's Slashvertising or not, it's still interesting.
An XBox is currently $150 at Worst Buy. It was $300 new, IIRC. I would GLADLY pay $300 right now if I could be reasonably sure I'd get a piece of hardware that worked like my old NES, or Atari 2600, both of which are still running like champs.
The problem is that they don't give me the option of buying something that's durable and functional. They add features to increase the price, not reliability, like you said.
And I have PATA drives in my computer because they're actually pretty functional, and wear exactly as I'd expect them to. Almost all of my hard drives have lasted for over 5 years, many of them longer than that. That's about what I expect for a $150 piece of hardware.
I don't want to deal with the hassle of buying another XBox from MS, not to mention the fact that I am still spending money I could use elsewhere, as well as wasting time I could do something much more interesting with than dick with MS and the vendor over warranties. I just want something that works as advertised. But I suppose that's too much to ask.
Go troll somewhere else.
You're a well-trained little consumer, aren't you?
Gone are the days of actually making robust products, no, we'll give them warranties. Chances are that even if it does break, people won't hit companies up for the warranties, especially if they're limited time. It's a profit increasing mechanism.
Ever seen the movie Tommy Boy? Warranties on brake pads? A warranty does a fat lot of good if the brakes fail. Give me a well-built product any day, even my consumer electronics. Enough of this throw-away crap.
the correct term would be bistromathics
Well, /. has a mostly US audience, and it's daytime over here when the story came out, so... wouldn't we have moved a fraction of an inch closer to the sun, rather than away from it?
a) FAQ says that this site is primarily US. Deal.
b) All good geeks know what a Dremel is, and often have one. They're really freaking handy in many, many instances. This is just a new use for it many may not have thought of.
c) Get your egotistical, elitist, twittish self and take thee outside. Less trolling going on that way.
I think you missed the word 'architecture' in there. The blades and such all use the same type of processor. The Opteron is an X86 based processor, a total departure from what they have otherwise.
No one ever said anything about the actual number of processors.