There are local saddle points as well as global ones... sometimes a market gets stuck in a local one even though the global one would be overall better because it takes work to climb out of the local saddle.
When my car isn't running, I check to see if there's gas in it. Why isn't a "normal" computer user held to that kind of standard? Or do you also give them a pass on not filling their car with gas and checking the oil because the car is just an appliance that takes them from point A to B?
Playing catchup? Is that why the Fermi pre-release benchmarks just barely beat out the performance of the currently available in quantity ATI cards, at a much higher thermal and die-size budget?
How about just a 3D product model when you're looking at a new widget? A 3D map of where a place is? Hell, just simple games in more than two dimensions? There are lots of places where 3D can really enhance information. It doesn't have to take over the entire interface like with Second Life and how VRML was positioned.
How long does the battery last on your BT headset? Or your phone? Would you be ok with recharging your remote daily, otherwise it just wouldn't work? I dunno about you, but I change batteries in my remote about once every 6 months, and I have a nice Logitech Harmony (which lights up blue if it feels vibration and has sat still for a while, to your finding comment).
But also note how if you don't touch a button on the PS3 controller for a few minutes, it shuts off and you have to wait for it to power back up and pair again. That's fine given how games work, but a TV remote is routinely left alone, but expected to work instantly when you want to change channels. Also, compare how often you have to recharge your PS3 controller to how often you have to charge/change batteries in your TV remote. Bluetooth is nice, but it sucks power. That's a lot of the reason for the 4.0 standard here.
Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music...
How are they going to get around the asinine copyright laws to do that? I seem to remember some stories of lawsuits happening in Britain because some woman was playing the radio for her horses and such... do you really think that any new music would be legal to play like that?
No, the correct outcome is for the law to be challenged. There is no guarantee that they will win, and depending on many factors, it may not even be the "correct" thing.
Here in Colorado it's illegal, but that's because we have agreements with states and countries downstream from us. If we capture the water here, we won't be sending our agreed amounts further along. It may not have made sense in Melbourne, but they're not always outlawed because officials hate the environment or don't want "ugly" tanks or anything.
To a certain extent, what they do with their property affects the value of my property. So yes, it is my concern that your house and yard don't look like ass when you're my neighbor. If you want to trash your house and have an ugly yard, live elsewhere. Communities don't just exist when they're convenient for you. Everyone has to play by the same rules, otherwise you aren't part of the community.
AT&T can barely supply data to the iPhone without tethering... can you imagine how pissed off everyone would be if they could tether? I mean, they might even have to improve their network or buy more spectrum to serve their customers, those jerks who expect a service when they pay for it.
It may have been a joke, but it wasn't misquoted. He still said it. Problem is that jokes have a way of turning into reality with someone like him at the helm
The thing is if it's a secret, keep it secret. The DMCA is not supposed to be used to prevent spreading of secrets. You can pound a nail in with a screwdriver, but you're more than likely gonna break the screwdriver and screw up the nail. Not to mention that there are numerous other precedents for this being a newsworthy publication of the article. Whistleblower laws and the like exist for a reason... because sometimes shit is wrong, and you need to leak it to get the info out. The DMCA is not an end-run around whistleblower and reporter protections.
Just because it's within their legal rights doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. I'll bet that lawyer has a lot of splainin' to do to the boys upstairs about this egg on their face. The document was leaked, and the DMCA was never intended as a censorship tool, so abuse of it really hits Microsoft in the reputation department. That's why there's this quick turnaround on spinning things.
The iPad is not a tablet PC. Comparing it to one is silly... it's a locked down multimedia device. It's a big iPod. It is not really comparable at all to a PC, other than they both have display screens.
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There are local saddle points as well as global ones... sometimes a market gets stuck in a local one even though the global one would be overall better because it takes work to climb out of the local saddle.
"Cue". As in, signal to start. "Queue" is an in-order line of some sort, like the queue for an amusement park ride.
When my car isn't running, I check to see if there's gas in it. Why isn't a "normal" computer user held to that kind of standard? Or do you also give them a pass on not filling their car with gas and checking the oil because the car is just an appliance that takes them from point A to B?
Playing catchup? Is that why the Fermi pre-release benchmarks just barely beat out the performance of the currently available in quantity ATI cards, at a much higher thermal and die-size budget?
Why does the whole web have to be 3D or not? Why can't we just make the parts of it 3D that make sense to make 3D? It's not a hard damn concept.
How about just a 3D product model when you're looking at a new widget? A 3D map of where a place is? Hell, just simple games in more than two dimensions? There are lots of places where 3D can really enhance information. It doesn't have to take over the entire interface like with Second Life and how VRML was positioned.
How long does the battery last on your BT headset? Or your phone? Would you be ok with recharging your remote daily, otherwise it just wouldn't work? I dunno about you, but I change batteries in my remote about once every 6 months, and I have a nice Logitech Harmony (which lights up blue if it feels vibration and has sat still for a while, to your finding comment).
But also note how if you don't touch a button on the PS3 controller for a few minutes, it shuts off and you have to wait for it to power back up and pair again. That's fine given how games work, but a TV remote is routinely left alone, but expected to work instantly when you want to change channels. Also, compare how often you have to recharge your PS3 controller to how often you have to charge/change batteries in your TV remote. Bluetooth is nice, but it sucks power. That's a lot of the reason for the 4.0 standard here.
Maybe they should use some music whose artists aren't several hundred years dead, then perhaps the artists could have a very interesting discussion as to the use of their music...
How are they going to get around the asinine copyright laws to do that? I seem to remember some stories of lawsuits happening in Britain because some woman was playing the radio for her horses and such... do you really think that any new music would be legal to play like that?
That's why the original poster suggested that they're already using Linux software RAID. Much more robust than depending on a single firmware version.
No, the correct outcome is for the law to be challenged. There is no guarantee that they will win, and depending on many factors, it may not even be the "correct" thing.
Here in Colorado it's illegal, but that's because we have agreements with states and countries downstream from us. If we capture the water here, we won't be sending our agreed amounts further along. It may not have made sense in Melbourne, but they're not always outlawed because officials hate the environment or don't want "ugly" tanks or anything.
To a certain extent, what they do with their property affects the value of my property. So yes, it is my concern that your house and yard don't look like ass when you're my neighbor. If you want to trash your house and have an ugly yard, live elsewhere. Communities don't just exist when they're convenient for you. Everyone has to play by the same rules, otherwise you aren't part of the community.
AT&T can barely supply data to the iPhone without tethering... can you imagine how pissed off everyone would be if they could tether? I mean, they might even have to improve their network or buy more spectrum to serve their customers, those jerks who expect a service when they pay for it.
It may have been a joke, but it wasn't misquoted. He still said it. Problem is that jokes have a way of turning into reality with someone like him at the helm
So my PS3 will stop working again on March 1, 2014? Nice.
Too bad IP can't be equated to brains. Too many shitty patents for that to be even close to a comparison.
Yeah. It's just cheaper to cut to the razor's edge on costs and let planes fall out of the sky. Price ain't everything.
Of course they recommend it. It saves them bandwidth costs.
The thing is if it's a secret, keep it secret. The DMCA is not supposed to be used to prevent spreading of secrets. You can pound a nail in with a screwdriver, but you're more than likely gonna break the screwdriver and screw up the nail. Not to mention that there are numerous other precedents for this being a newsworthy publication of the article. Whistleblower laws and the like exist for a reason... because sometimes shit is wrong, and you need to leak it to get the info out. The DMCA is not an end-run around whistleblower and reporter protections.
Although private, it isn't legally sacrosanct and will be opened by third parties for inspection in certain circumstances.
Stop using big words correctly. You're setting a bad precedent for slashdot.
Just because it's within their legal rights doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. I'll bet that lawyer has a lot of splainin' to do to the boys upstairs about this egg on their face. The document was leaked, and the DMCA was never intended as a censorship tool, so abuse of it really hits Microsoft in the reputation department. That's why there's this quick turnaround on spinning things.
The iPad is not a tablet PC. Comparing it to one is silly... it's a locked down multimedia device. It's a big iPod. It is not really comparable at all to a PC, other than they both have display screens.
Apple does good when they're modifying existing markets. They tend to fall flat when they're trying to create new ones (cf. Newton).
"serial" and "not likely to be guessed" really don't go anywhere in the same sentence.