Skype should be ashamed of themselves. If anything, they should simply check CPU usage and warn against adding more callers when there isn't sufficient horsepower left in the tank for a good connection. To claim, however, that only Intel dual cores have the power to support twice as many calls is pure garbage!
that programming should be opened out to non-developers.
Gee, are we suffering a programmer shortage? Is anyone being paid big bucks and stock options to jump companies this year? Were recruiters lined up at your door and ringing your phone off the hook with job offers last time you were looking for programming work?
I don't think we need more programmers yet.
But this would be great fodder for Dilbert -- Scott Adams are you listening?
It is somewhat surprising, however, that China has chosen.com and.net as two of their TLDs, virtually guaranteeing operability problems with the rest of the Internet.
Should not be a problem as long as their names include even one Chinese character, since I'm not aware that ICANN is even capable of assigning such names otherwise. At least I have yet to hear about any such names.
Strikes me that what they're trying to do is even further cut themselves off from undesired Western influences. They may well succeed -- for a while.
Once upon a time in a galaxy just like this one Iassc Asimov wrote a fact article for Scientific American about the fierce tides one would encounter due to the gravitational gradient near a neutron star.
A young science fiction author named Larry Niven (anyone ever heard of him?) read the article, wrote a fictional account of such an encounter called Neutron Star, and won awards and acclaim for it.
While Asimov commented afterwards that this Nebula Award would have been his if he'd only been thinking fiction instead of fact, and Larry Niven even admitted that Asimov's article was the spark for his story, Asimov didn't sue Niven.
HBHG is not DVC. Two completely different books. Neither author(s) could have written the other book. So fiction should wins out over proported fact again, but they have no case...
...except for the fact that they are suing in England! (Remember the SP "Trapped in the Closet" episode: "I'll sue you -- in England!")
So where are all the images? Type "Perfect 10" into Google Images and you're not exactly swamped with hits that look like free pictures from their photo library. Where are they finding them?
And I wouldn't ask Google to remove the term "Perfect 10" from all searches because that term was in general use long before this magazine came along and tried to own it.
Perfect 10 should be using the DMCA takedown provisions against web-sites that they feel violate their copyrights. Google is just too useful to the rest of us to let some company hobble, and should be covered by Safe Harbor provisions anyway.
In fact, the only reason they even have a case against thumbnails is this cell phone thing, which seems a red herring sort of argument to begin with. Kind of like, thumbnails are fair use, so lets start selling thumbnails and we'll have a case in court after all.
If it ever came down between seeing Perfect 10 or Google disappear, I know who I wouldn't miss at all.
What RIM should be doing in sending targeted messages to all their users with instructions on how to contact their Congressman if they want their Blackberry service to continue uninterrupted. Since likely every Congressman or their aides have a Blackberry as well, it shouldn't be hard to send them your opinions.
United Shoe was caught abusing its patent portfolio to keep competitors at bay;
Isn't this what Macrovision does?
1: Develop VCR copy-protection system that corrupts the video signal.
2: Get movie studios to force its adoption in DVD players, satellite systems, and cable boxes.
3: Patent every way they can think of for defeating their own system.
4: Sue anyone who markets a system to fix the corrupted video signal for patent infringement.
5: Profit!
It is a stupid joke that demonstrates that you have no understanding of the case, but want to give your useless opinion, so you insinuate that the judge was bribed...
First they closed down the sites hosting content.
Then they closed down the P2P centralized servers.
Next they went after the distributed P2P systems and scared them off.
They started suing random P2P users with large share directories, often missing the mark.
Then they went after sites that stored only torrent files, and no actual content.
Now they're after the sites that index the torrents, and have neither actual content, nor torrent files.
Your own personal computer is next on their hit list of infringing devices.
Is anyone aware of just how small these content industries really are compared to the overall economy? They are the tail wagging the dog!
This move could backfire. Early adopters tend to have money -- and opinions. They've been boasting about having the latest + greatest ad nausium. Now they're suddenly being made obsolete.
Sure the new sets cost maybe a fifth of what they paid on day one, and have better picture quality to boot. If you have plasma, it's pretty well burned out by now anyway.
Still, if they decide to revolt the politicians will have to listen. And this whole copy protection issue is political. If Washington said "NO" to it, it won't happen.
Still, the switch to Intel is a necessary one from an engineering standpoint, he said, because Apple needed a way to improve performance per watt. Mr. Wozniak would have liked Apple to continue using Motorola processors, but "Intel just did a very good logic design."
I call Bullshit!
Apple may have needed to improve performance, but not necessarily performance per watt.
And if performance was their sole concern -- not even considering price -- then there was AMD.
Woz, sorry, but you spouting Intel slogans to justify this decision sounds like spin to me.
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Skype should be ashamed of themselves. If anything, they should simply check CPU usage and warn against adding more callers when there isn't sufficient horsepower left in the tank for a good connection. To claim, however, that only Intel dual cores have the power to support twice as many calls is pure garbage!
Like this is news?
Sounds a lot like Intel's first dual processors. Let's just slap together a Hitachi and an IBM, add up the TFlops, and claim victory.
And in breaking news, laptop computer theft suddenly surpasses bicycle theft at the university. Details at eleven.
Well for starters there's the one that used to be married to Tom Cruise. Quite a pair of Mimi's there.
Gee, are we suffering a programmer shortage? Is anyone being paid big bucks and stock options to jump companies this year? Were recruiters lined up at your door and ringing your phone off the hook with job offers last time you were looking for programming work?
I don't think we need more programmers yet.
But this would be great fodder for Dilbert -- Scott Adams are you listening?
HiFi for LoFi (music).
Should not be a problem as long as their names include even one Chinese character, since I'm not aware that ICANN is even capable of assigning such names otherwise. At least I have yet to hear about any such names.
Strikes me that what they're trying to do is even further cut themselves off from undesired Western influences. They may well succeed -- for a while.
One movie script already has been patented.
A young science fiction author named Larry Niven (anyone ever heard of him?) read the article, wrote a fictional account of such an encounter called Neutron Star, and won awards and acclaim for it.
While Asimov commented afterwards that this Nebula Award would have been his if he'd only been thinking fiction instead of fact, and Larry Niven even admitted that Asimov's article was the spark for his story, Asimov didn't sue Niven.
HBHG is not DVC. Two completely different books. Neither author(s) could have written the other book. So fiction should wins out over proported fact again, but they have no case...
God will get them for this!
And I wouldn't ask Google to remove the term "Perfect 10" from all searches because that term was in general use long before this magazine came along and tried to own it.
Perfect 10 should be using the DMCA takedown provisions against web-sites that they feel violate their copyrights. Google is just too useful to the rest of us to let some company hobble, and should be covered by Safe Harbor provisions anyway.
In fact, the only reason they even have a case against thumbnails is this cell phone thing, which seems a red herring sort of argument to begin with. Kind of like, thumbnails are fair use, so lets start selling thumbnails and we'll have a case in court after all.
If it ever came down between seeing Perfect 10 or Google disappear, I know who I wouldn't miss at all.
What RIM should be doing in sending targeted messages to all their users with instructions on how to contact their Congressman if they want their Blackberry service to continue uninterrupted. Since likely every Congressman or their aides have a Blackberry as well, it shouldn't be hard to send them your opinions.
Isn't this what Macrovision does?
1: Develop VCR copy-protection system that corrupts the video signal.
2: Get movie studios to force its adoption in DVD players, satellite systems, and cable boxes.
3: Patent every way they can think of for defeating their own system.
4: Sue anyone who markets a system to fix the corrupted video signal for patent infringement.
5: Profit!
Gentlemen, start your lighters...
Slashdot readers slashdot the site rendering it unreachable by the masses at large.
Net result, one effect cancels out the other.
Then why are the further away bursts so much shorter?
Then they closed down the P2P centralized servers.
Next they went after the distributed P2P systems and scared them off.
They started suing random P2P users with large share directories, often missing the mark.
Then they went after sites that stored only torrent files, and no actual content.
Now they're after the sites that index the torrents, and have neither actual content, nor torrent files.
Your own personal computer is next on their hit list of infringing devices.
Is anyone aware of just how small these content industries really are compared to the overall economy? They are the tail wagging the dog!
Sure the new sets cost maybe a fifth of what they paid on day one, and have better picture quality to boot. If you have plasma, it's pretty well burned out by now anyway.
Still, if they decide to revolt the politicians will have to listen. And this whole copy protection issue is political. If Washington said "NO" to it, it won't happen.
Let the fireworks begin!
Obviously they get compressed together over a long journey. Has anyone considered this?
Remember, no one knows as much as they think they do. When you do, the Universe keeps proving you wrong.
You mean like missing half their bits?
Yonah is a 32-bit Intel processor. No 64-bit extensions.
Whomever modded the parent as Troll -1 is a MORON -5.
I call Bullshit!
Apple may have needed to improve performance, but not necessarily performance per watt.
And if performance was their sole concern -- not even considering price -- then there was AMD.
Woz, sorry, but you spouting Intel slogans to justify this decision sounds like spin to me.
Somehow Steve Jobs never seems to have that problem.
No one ever wants to hold him to account for past pronouncements.
Would have been a great way to test new collision-advoidance systems.