AMD needs to strike the same deal with Intel as everyone else -- that AMD won't do any more business with themselves. Then they could stop making chips and just cash checks.
Debian system, 200GB disk, 1GB RAM, nv15 with 64MB, Athlon 2200+ running Vice City in Cedega runs cutscenes and plays the game with about twice the framerate the very same machine does running Windows.
Oh wow! I'm sarcastically impressed. I must take your word for this. You know, if a system like yours could run all Windows apps twice as fast as Windows itself there wouldn't be any more Windows! 2X performance gain with fully Windows compatibility would rule!
So allow me to express the belief that the whole story isn't being told here.
The opportunity here is not for you to have a second phone tethered to your computer, but for some person to set up a bank of phones tied to broadband for each mobile phone carrier. If this person can manage to charge you less money and trouble than setting this up on your own, he (or she) has a new business opportunity.
You know, Windows just isn't that expensive. Chances are, due to the (I would think illegal, but no one seems to care what I think) per-processor bundling of Windows, you probably already have a copy for your box. So just boot into Windows to play your game, and then return to Linux afterwards. It's likely to run faster this way anyway.
As a granted monopoly, the cities should have insisted several requirements were met, including allowing other services to lease bandwidth.
Which the cable companies would have then ignored, or had overturned at the federal level claiming that the FCC does not require this of them and federal law/policy trumps any city.
This is inconsistent. With two-way cable and VOIP,
By this same logic, your telephone company should be able to only let you dial into their own ISP -- and at whatever prices they decide to charge.
And regarding the court's other goof last week, if why not Free Speech also being regulated at the local level. If your local municipality doesn't like your speech, let them use eminent domain powers to take it away from you. Wouldn't that go over well?
Of course, since many of us have our Free Speech through the Internet (web-pages, blogs, message boards, and the like), we are being restricted in it by this ruling to a single provider, and whatever ToS rules they decide to impose.
The real problem here, and why the court was wrong, is that the cable system is a monopoly granted by the city. Only they are allowed to run cable to your home. As such, there is no true competition -- and we are screwed by it!
I have to wonder when intellectual property will fall under emminent domain?
IP can already be taken by the government in several different ways:
1: Compulsory licensing. The government insists you must license your property, and they set the price. This has happened to the music industry in the past, which is why music is so widely available now.
2: Revocation of your patent protection. Now anybody can use it.
3: Seizure of your patents for National Defense.
4: Threat of ruinous litigation from an adversary with the ultimate in deep-pockets unless you capitulate to their demands.
I don't think they need any further ways to take your IP if they really want to do so.
Things are going to get much worse before they get better once Bush appoints a few more even more pro-big-business judges.
And you are full of Crap, provided you even RTFA. These the precisely the kinds of judges Bush doesn't appoint that pulled this one off today. Next time put brain in gear before engaging keyboard.
If forced, I may have to pull an Arthur Dent and lay in my driveway in my bathrobe.
Arthur lost his house too. I'd suggest being a Charlton Heston holding a legally-owned repeating rifle and defending your property would send a more effective message.
Our forefathers would have been marching in the streets with pitchforks and axes.
You can still march down the street with pitchforks and axes since you don't have far to go now. You only have to get as far as your local government office and burn it down the first time they try this in your own community.
So now if you have a prime piece of property, say with a nice view, and someone else with better political connections wants to force you to sell it to him, the Supreme Court of the United States says this is just fine with them.
What amazes me here is that the "liberal" wing of the court has ruled against the "little guy" single homeowner, and in favor of the wealthy corporations who can buy political influence easier than I can buy a loaf of bread. And the "conservative" wing is actually standing up for the little guy against the wealthy corporations who make millions in redevelopment. Who would'da thought?
No, the $999 cost of the development system is only to lease the system until the end of 2006.
$999 -- otherwise known as the cost for two and a half basic Dell Dimension computers -- for a system you don't even get to keep. Jobs is one hell of a salesman!
I truly despise the following ad types, the people that produce them, and the people who put them on their sites:
1: Pop-ups, pop-unders, and anything that opens another window.
2: Anything hard to close.
3: Anything that uses measurable extra bandwidth to download itself.
4: Anything or window that moves. This includes animated ads.
5: Anything that overlays the content I'm trying to read.
6: Anything that wants me to install their custom software, especially when it comes back and tells me yet again to install their adware/spyware/hijack crap when I try to close out of the window.
7: And most of all, anything that includes video and or sound -- especially sound!
Do this crap, and I go out of my way not to buy your products, while complaining to the sites that host your ads. I may not get you kicked off, but I will seek to annoy the webmasters who have to deal with my feedback about your tactics.
Slashdot Mirror
AMD needs to strike the same deal with Intel as everyone else -- that AMD won't do any more business with themselves. Then they could stop making chips and just cash checks.
Oh wow! I'm sarcastically impressed. I must take your word for this. You know, if a system like yours could run all Windows apps twice as fast as Windows itself there wouldn't be any more Windows! 2X performance gain with fully Windows compatibility would rule!
So allow me to express the belief that the whole story isn't being told here.
The opportunity here is not for you to have a second phone tethered to your computer, but for some person to set up a bank of phones tied to broadband for each mobile phone carrier. If this person can manage to charge you less money and trouble than setting this up on your own, he (or she) has a new business opportunity.
You know, Windows just isn't that expensive. Chances are, due to the (I would think illegal, but no one seems to care what I think) per-processor bundling of Windows, you probably already have a copy for your box. So just boot into Windows to play your game, and then return to Linux afterwards. It's likely to run faster this way anyway.
Which the cable companies would have then ignored, or had overturned at the federal level claiming that the FCC does not require this of them and federal law/policy trumps any city.
By this same logic, your telephone company should be able to only let you dial into their own ISP -- and at whatever prices they decide to charge.
And regarding the court's other goof last week, if why not Free Speech also being regulated at the local level. If your local municipality doesn't like your speech, let them use eminent domain powers to take it away from you. Wouldn't that go over well?
Of course, since many of us have our Free Speech through the Internet (web-pages, blogs, message boards, and the like), we are being restricted in it by this ruling to a single provider, and whatever ToS rules they decide to impose.
The real problem here, and why the court was wrong, is that the cable system is a monopoly granted by the city. Only they are allowed to run cable to your home. As such, there is no true competition -- and we are screwed by it!
The Good News is that he didn't open this in Bangalore, India.
Will the next volume be: From Matrix II to Zardoz?
Not even.
Shameful.
IP can already be taken by the government in several different ways:
1: Compulsory licensing. The government insists you must license your property, and they set the price. This has happened to the music industry in the past, which is why music is so widely available now.
2: Revocation of your patent protection. Now anybody can use it.
3: Seizure of your patents for National Defense.
4: Threat of ruinous litigation from an adversary with the ultimate in deep-pockets unless you capitulate to their demands.
I don't think they need any further ways to take your IP if they really want to do so.
Hey, I'm the first to argue that /. needs a spell checker function for posts.
Join me and become the second to argue it.
I'd even support a GRAMMAR -1 moderation if there was the ability to go back and correct posts afterwards.
Uh, I would know this by evaluating all the other judges he has appointed so far.
You know, I don't expect to see Ted Kennedy appointed to the Supreme Court during George W. Bush's tenure in office.
But you were just Trolling anyway.
He should be promoted to Untracold Molecules for this breakthrough.
It may be new, but I'll bet the Supreme Court will let it be siezed under emminent domain.
And you are full of Crap, provided you even RTFA. These the precisely the kinds of judges Bush doesn't appoint that pulled this one off today. Next time put brain in gear before engaging keyboard.
Arthur lost his house too. I'd suggest being a Charlton Heston holding a legally-owned repeating rifle and defending your property would send a more effective message.
You can still march down the street with pitchforks and axes since you don't have far to go now. You only have to get as far as your local government office and burn it down the first time they try this in your own community.
Hey, you've got to increase it somehow, since you also have the states, counties, and cities trying to give it all back to companies like Dell.
I guess in the United States they do too now.
What amazes me here is that the "liberal" wing of the court has ruled against the "little guy" single homeowner, and in favor of the wealthy corporations who can buy political influence easier than I can buy a loaf of bread. And the "conservative" wing is actually standing up for the little guy against the wealthy corporations who make millions in redevelopment. Who would'da thought?
But is it okay to comment on your comment?
$999 -- otherwise known as the cost for two and a half basic Dell Dimension computers -- for a system you don't even get to keep. Jobs is one hell of a salesman!
And the answer is...
The Double-Click Reality Distortion Field!
(You didn't think Steve Jobs had the only one, did you?)
1: Pop-ups, pop-unders, and anything that opens another window.
2: Anything hard to close.
3: Anything that uses measurable extra bandwidth to download itself.
4: Anything or window that moves. This includes animated ads.
5: Anything that overlays the content I'm trying to read.
6: Anything that wants me to install their custom software, especially when it comes back and tells me yet again to install their adware/spyware/hijack crap when I try to close out of the window.
7: And most of all, anything that includes video and or sound -- especially sound!
Do this crap, and I go out of my way not to buy your products, while complaining to the sites that host your ads. I may not get you kicked off, but I will seek to annoy the webmasters who have to deal with my feedback about your tactics.