The pressure of all this makes me never want to be a famous artist. Imagine having to paint all one's paintings in exactly the same way, lest one be branded a fraud of one's self. Oh the pressure of it all!
IBM loses whiny Apple who is well known for beating up their chip suppliers every way from Sunday, while gaining XBox 360 and PS3, which will not only ship far more units than Apple over the next five years, but have already paid for the next generation of Power architecture.
Apple, in the meantime gets Intel, where they're not even close to being the big I's largest customer, and have only their prestige to trade for favors (compared to Dell, whose Intel loyalty is beyond understanding these days).
One should not speak to the RIAA for they are beyond reason. As for someone who defends them well...... Bunch of twerps I tell you - and their defenders should be shot (and would be, except for an issue regarding the price of the ammunition).
I believe you have misunderstood. Zi Mei has filled an affidavit against the RIAA's data collection and identification methods, showing how imprecise and prone to error they actually are. He argues why no court should rely upon them in something as important as a court case that will cost the defendant thousands of dollars no matter how he comes out.
Don't get me wrong, I hate the RIAA as much as the next geek.. but seriously people, the girls probaly lieing.
If she is lieing[sic], which side is she lieing[sic] for? If she's lieing[sic], then the RIAA has no witnesses to the "crime" -- and no case! Isn't that the whole point of this filing?
I'd love to see someone make a website with info on the lawyers who represent them.
Oh, gee, could you be looking for this?
Oh, you meant their (RIAA's) lawyers. I thought you wanted info on how the Good Guys were waging the Good Fight, showing how the bad lawyers can't even allege an actual crime (althought the judges keep letting them come back and try yet again).
The RIAA would go to customers' houses, brutally murder them, and grind up the body as organ meat for third world countries if they could get away with it.
It's really hard to decide if this, or Sony's RootKit DRM fiasco, is the best So take that story of the year -- but both are certainly at the top of my list.
And no doubt he'll lose all of it to someone who sues him for some 1989 patent filing (finally granted in 1998) for using pixels with links attached to them for advertising purposes.
he makes some technical errors, such as calling an IP address "a twelve digit code.
He is clearly speaking in layman's -- or in this case, Judge's -- terms. If he put it in geek speak no one other than another programmer would understand what he was saying no matter how technically accurate. You must speak to your audience.
Tomorrow it may be my door that the US entertainment industry kicks down.
Does your country allow private lawful ownership of firearms? Kicking down a door, especially when you're not the police, can be quite dangerous in the United States.
Other countries clearly don't believe in lawful self-defence -- since they take away the very means to provide it.
How many people own very high speed DVD writers? Single digit percents? If you're making media, and your exisiting line is already quite profitable for the 90%+ writers already out there, you don't have a lot of incentive to push out the new stuff yet.
I'm not impressed by Dell's moves. They sound a lot like Dell is actually working to help their partners.
Yeah they sell AMD processors now, but only in boxes and not in working systems. This helps Intel claim they're obviously not pressuring Dell to only sell Intel crap, which is all they still actually put in systems.
Yeah they're shipping systems with FireFox preloaded, but only an obsolete version, and only in the UK for the moment. This helps Microsoft say that they're obviously not a big monopoly who forces systems to only be shipped with their own software loaded. But who will actually use this old version of FF?
Yeah they're not shipping HD-DVD systems now. Nobody is shipping HD-DVD systems! Or BluRay either! This makes it look like Microsoft's big announcement about HD-DVD support only in Vista isn't a convicited monopolist dictating the market -- which it is, IMHO. Lots of time for Dell to change their mind in the future and announce that We're just shipping what the customer is demanding. It's the same line they've used for years about why they don't ship AMD processor-powered systems yet.
I think all this helps Microsoft and Intel a lot more than it benefits me. In fact, helping MS and "i" doesn't benefit me at all since it reduces competition. I'm definitely not impressed at all.
The firms are in talks to create a shared foundry, which might set the stage for the creation of a 45-nanometer process well in advance of the competition.
Think bigger still. Why not one world-wide corporation to develop 45nm, 32nm, and whatever-comes-next-after-that-nm processes that are made available to everyone on an equal basis? Better than money spent (wasted) on parallel development and patent fights.
Then you can start competing on the value of your circuit designs.
Just what are memos and coupons? Sounds like what you, the consumer, gets as a result of your class action suit victory, while the lawyers get actual $$$s.
Coupons might be discounts on the MSVista price -- or something else altogether. Supposedly this somehow translates into $$$s for the manufacturers.
Memos? WTF? An Atta-Boy directly from Mr. G. by e-mail? A memo from billg to MSAccounting along the lines of: "Don't bill these people this month. They've been real nice to me."
Or are these words selected because they're not: Incentive Payments, Rebates, Kickbacks, and/or Bribes -- which are all bad words in this context?
Obviously the next geek thing is having your own private circuit wrired from your breaker box directly to your work station. You clearly don't want this box sharing the plug with anything else.
And I didn't even see them mention the UPS that you'll need to ensure this stays up long enough for a proper shutdown.
Pioneer has the first Blu-ray drive for PCs ready for market next month but is openly admitting the DRM issue may force it to delay.
Or you could ship it now without DRM and flash update the BIOS later on when the children have quit throwing food at each other while complaining about who got more than they did.
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The pressure of all this makes me never want to be a famous artist. Imagine having to paint all one's paintings in exactly the same way, lest one be branded a fraud of one's self. Oh the pressure of it all!
Apple, in the meantime gets Intel, where they're not even close to being the big I's largest customer, and have only their prestige to trade for favors (compared to Dell, whose Intel loyalty is beyond understanding these days).
I believe you have misunderstood. Zi Mei has filled an affidavit against the RIAA's data collection and identification methods, showing how imprecise and prone to error they actually are. He argues why no court should rely upon them in something as important as a court case that will cost the defendant thousands of dollars no matter how he comes out.
He's on your side.
If she is lieing[sic], which side is she lieing[sic] for? If she's lieing[sic], then the RIAA has no witnesses to the "crime" -- and no case! Isn't that the whole point of this filing?
Civil disobedience. I like that thought. File downloading and sharing as protest. Protected First Amendment speech. Bring on the ACLU!
Wouldn't that be a W00t!
Oh, gee, could you be looking for this?
Oh, you meant their (RIAA's) lawyers. I thought you wanted info on how the Good Guys were waging the Good Fight, showing how the bad lawyers can't even allege an actual crime (althought the judges keep letting them come back and try yet again).
Only if they can sell it at a profit. Otherwise they'll just keep to their habit of grinding up their own artists for profit.
Oh, gee, could you be looking for this?
It's really hard to decide if this, or Sony's RootKit DRM fiasco, is the best So take that story of the year -- but both are certainly at the top of my list.
And no doubt he'll lose all of it to someone who sues him for some 1989 patent filing (finally granted in 1998) for using pixels with links attached to them for advertising purposes.
He is clearly speaking in layman's -- or in this case, Judge's -- terms. If he put it in geek speak no one other than another programmer would understand what he was saying no matter how technically accurate. You must speak to your audience.
Does your country allow private lawful ownership of firearms? Kicking down a door, especially when you're not the police, can be quite dangerous in the United States.
Other countries clearly don't believe in lawful self-defence -- since they take away the very means to provide it.
How many people own very high speed DVD writers? Single digit percents? If you're making media, and your exisiting line is already quite profitable for the 90%+ writers already out there, you don't have a lot of incentive to push out the new stuff yet.
Yeah they sell AMD processors now, but only in boxes and not in working systems. This helps Intel claim they're obviously not pressuring Dell to only sell Intel crap, which is all they still actually put in systems.
Yeah they're shipping systems with FireFox preloaded, but only an obsolete version, and only in the UK for the moment. This helps Microsoft say that they're obviously not a big monopoly who forces systems to only be shipped with their own software loaded. But who will actually use this old version of FF?
Yeah they're not shipping HD-DVD systems now. Nobody is shipping HD-DVD systems! Or BluRay either! This makes it look like Microsoft's big announcement about HD-DVD support only in Vista isn't a convicited monopolist dictating the market -- which it is, IMHO. Lots of time for Dell to change their mind in the future and announce that We're just shipping what the customer is demanding. It's the same line they've used for years about why they don't ship AMD processor-powered systems yet.
I think all this helps Microsoft and Intel a lot more than it benefits me. In fact, helping MS and "i" doesn't benefit me at all since it reduces competition. I'm definitely not impressed at all.
Think bigger still. Why not one world-wide corporation to develop 45nm, 32nm, and whatever-comes-next-after-that-nm processes that are made available to everyone on an equal basis? Better than money spent (wasted) on parallel development and patent fights.
Then you can start competing on the value of your circuit designs.
Coupons might be discounts on the MSVista price -- or something else altogether. Supposedly this somehow translates into $$$s for the manufacturers.
Memos? WTF? An Atta-Boy directly from Mr. G. by e-mail? A memo from billg to MSAccounting along the lines of: "Don't bill these people this month. They've been real nice to me."
Or are these words selected because they're not: Incentive Payments, Rebates, Kickbacks, and/or Bribes -- which are all bad words in this context?
Because Catherine Zeta Jones isn't making them.
And I didn't even see them mention the UPS that you'll need to ensure this stays up long enough for a proper shutdown.
...to keep FireFox running continuously now.
The real question is: Will Sony delay the PS3 if the DRM isn't worked out? Or will they ship with what they have at the time?
Or you could ship it now without DRM and flash update the BIOS later on when the children have quit throwing food at each other while complaining about who got more than they did.
Is this because its thrashing the L2 cache, or some other reason?
Sounds like something you'd do in the gym, but how do you quad pump a bus? I gather your somehow sending 4 databits for each bus clock-cycle.
Price?
No doubt, given that it's a Hot chip.