A raytraced 3d view is much much more realistic than anything a modern GPU can muster.
Actually a raytraced 3d view compared to the current raster hacks available is A LITTLE more realistic than anything a modern GPU can muster. Some very clever hacks have proven to bring raster graphics close to raytraced results - and still in realtime.
The ATI HD 4770 isn't the only amazing graphics card from ATI. For $52 (NewEgg) I'm installing an ATI HD 4550 into my Dell C521 low-profile system. Passive cooling, low profile, VGA output required, and a 25W power budget severely constrain my possible choices. But for a tiny card this one is a powerhouse as well. ATI is truly redefining the GPU space these day - and for the better! Anyone who doesn't think so need only remember the Nvidia GTX 280 released last year for $649.00. That price barely lasted a month once the ATI HD 4870 arrived with near the performance at half the price!
Greed may be good, but competition is much better!
If they're doubling WiFi from 1.5Mbs to 3.0Mbs then they're clearly, and severely, limiting it. Twice nothing is still nothing, and while this is something it is definitely a choked something.
said Marybeth Peters, the Library of Congress's current register of copyrights.
Unfortunately, considering what else Marybeth Peters has said about copyright to Congress, I really can't believe anything she says about anything anymore.
Long-Arm statutes were bad enough when they let one state reach into another state. Or one country into another country. Now they're trying to extend this to whole new worlds - and not even real worlds, no less. This is not a good direction to be going because it means all our current problems are just going to be ported into any new worlds we find, create, or discover.
Second, they are waiting for the end of analog signals so they can reclaim some bandwidth.
Sorry, but that's not going to help you. The whole point of cable for many people is that the digital transition in February, excuse me June, excuse me whenever, doesn't affect cable viewers since they will continue to receive the same analogue signal they have to this point.
What you see with Netflix is definitely not what you get. Or to put it more precisely, what you see with their streaming Watch Instantly service is not what you get when you get the DVD version in the bright red envelope. Not only is the quality far less than the DVD version (a known feature of their streaming that only got worse with their new optional player that they try to trick you into installing), but it's not even the same movie! An example: I wanted to enjoy one more time "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" because I've found it to be the funniest pseudo rockumentary since "This is Spinal Tap". Rather than give up my one DVD rental slot I was pleased to find it available for streaming, even if I would have to watch it on my computer. There's music in the movie not on the soundtrack album. With no warning from Netflix that it would be streaming a censored version it was left to me to discover missing pieces throughout the movie. Called Netflix to complain and was told that they have to stream the version provided by the studio, which may be different than the DVD version that they'll mail to you. But they don't warn you when this happens. Now I don't want to use their streaming service at all because I don't trust it to deliver me the same movie experience. And it wasn't just removal of some sex and/or nudity. What they left in was far more challenging than what was clipped out. And don't tell me this is part of the DRM scheme to avoid theft. Copying a DVD is as cheap and much easier than stealing Netflix's low-quality stream. In short, there is no logical reason for this to happen - and especially no reason for it to be kept secret that the streaming version isn't the DVD version. In an ideal world, in addition to the Watch Instantly option and the mail me a DVD option, Netflix should offer a third Download Complete Full Resolution Version To Watch Much Sooner Than Waiting For It To Be Delivered By Mail option. And they should be much more upfront about the differences between their DVD and streaming versions. Otherwise they'll never be able to convince us to eventually abandon physical delivery of DVD's in favor of Internet delivery. Anyone else suspect that they've had this same experience yet?
Great! This means that I can continue running CARDFILE.EXE from my Windows 3.1 installation. This program has migrated successfully from 3.1 to 95OEMB, 98SP1, 2000, and XP. I've not gone to Vista since I've yet to find a simple, free replacement that would have run under Vista and (hopefully) imported the.CRD files. (Also Vista is full of DRM, and would run like crap on my Vista Ready embedded Nvidia 6150 graphics desktop, and likely break other applications as well.)
Sometimes you want a program to just do one simple thing well. CARDFILE is one of those programs. Now it looks like it ought to run under the right -- read expensive -- version(s) of W7.
If there's a better replacement, feel free to point it out to me and I'll appreciate it.
If AT&T can't hold their customers away from Verizon (and all the current customers are locked into 2 year contracts with nasty termination fees) it's because of their crappy service and high rates. If they fixed that then they would need to worry about the competition so much. In fact, competition is exactly their problem - they don't want any!
And oh yes, their whole rational for expedited discovery is complete B.S. They are trying to get the identifying information before anyone can rally to stop them.
And don't forget that this entire case is a sham proceeding to start with. They have no intention of seeking actual relief for their alleged damages at trial. This case will be dismissed - because it absolutely cannot be won - the moment they've misused the court system to get private information not available to them otherwise. It's a loophole in the court system that needs to be closed now that people are learning the true need of privacy from well-funded, unscrupulous, enemies.
There are some motions we have made which we have lost in the lower courts,
It seems to me that you have a record of losing before exactly TWO judges - one Magistrate and one Real judge - out of the hundreds or thousands of them throughout this great country. That you keep having to face these same TWO rigid (need I say, dishonest?) judges who have managed to corral ALL of these cases in their district into their own courtroom because they have accepted the RIAA lies that all of these cases are related, and too complicated for other judges to understand. It is like all bank robbery cases in the district going to The Hanging Judge - or all murder cases being heard by The Bleeding Heart Liberal Left Judge. There is no chance to see a preponderance of legal opinion being shown to Mr. Beckerman when he continually has to face the same TWO judges every time. This is not justice, or fairness, or equality to these Defendants.
I suppose we should thank the woefully ignorant Magistrate Judge who bowed and scraped to every half-baked RIAA argument presented to him. If he's not already on the take from the RIAA for that performance, he should be. After all, it was only his incredibly dumb performance, validated by the trial judge who barely took the time for the decision to reach him, let alone actually read it, that have created the issues for this appeal.
That, and the fact that John Doe #3 is willing to fight this out. Perhaps the RIAA figured no college kid would actually take it this far.
I expect the RIAA to try to get out of this one and hope it will just go away. After all, sooner or later this had to happen so they must have a contingency plan - something more compelling than telling the Appeals Court that the Defendant has no chance of winning - to deal with this situation when it finally arrived.
Some of the remaining price certainly has to go to pay for the Whispernet connection. Remember that there is a significant amount of free stuff you can d/l to your Kindle.
I remember The Stars and Strips Forever played on a Control Data Corporation 3500 mainframe that used both a built-in speaker (controlled by the lower bits in a register) in the console, and 4 high-speed half-inch tape drives with three-foot tall vacuum columns for the bass section.
And then there was radio static music on an IBM 1130 mini from a program written in Fortran IV. The bulk of the program, after reading in the data cards with the notes of the song to play, consisted of a DO loop containing about thirty CONTINUE statements. So much for any sort of optimizing compiler on the IBM hardware. I tried the same program on a CDC 1704 mini, which was considered a reasonably comparable machine at the time and the 3 minute song "played" in 3 seconds. I still consider it my first comparative computer benchmark run.
Life was simpler and we were entertained more easily by clever hacks in those days.
The content industry has won NOTHING yet against TPB. As long as TPB is up and running anywhere int he world the copyright zealots haven't won a darned thing except press headlines.
The reason you don't (or shouldn't expect to) see freely shared music in TPB's Top 100 is that you don't need TPB to find and acquire freely shared music. It has other legitimate sources which aren't in danger of being shut down through legal action - although Big Music would certainly shut them down if they could.
You sound like you want a high power server (multiple VM's) with significant storage (multiple TB's) to run on no power in an unconditioned environment. And you want it affordable. Those are rather contradictory requirements, rather like having cake and eating it too.
He has also been ordered to pay more than $34,000 in attorney and court fees.
34K on a default judgment? Default judgment means he lost because he never showed up. How did you spend this much against a guy who never showed up to defend himself?
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Actually a raytraced 3d view compared to the current raster hacks available is A LITTLE more realistic than anything a modern GPU can muster. Some very clever hacks have proven to bring raster graphics close to raytraced results - and still in realtime.
Are you talking about memory KB bytes?
Money $640,000.00?
Assignations?
What?
The ATI HD 4770 isn't the only amazing graphics card from ATI. For $52 (NewEgg) I'm installing an ATI HD 4550 into my Dell C521 low-profile system. Passive cooling, low profile, VGA output required, and a 25W power budget severely constrain my possible choices. But for a tiny card this one is a powerhouse as well. ATI is truly redefining the GPU space these day - and for the better! Anyone who doesn't think so need only remember the Nvidia GTX 280 released last year for $649.00. That price barely lasted a month once the ATI HD 4870 arrived with near the performance at half the price!
Greed may be good, but competition is much better!
If they're doubling WiFi from 1.5Mbs to 3.0Mbs then they're clearly, and severely, limiting it. Twice nothing is still nothing, and while this is something it is definitely a choked something.
Unfortunately, considering what else Marybeth Peters has said about copyright to Congress, I really can't believe anything she says about anything anymore.
Long-Arm statutes were bad enough when they let one state reach into another state. Or one country into another country. Now they're trying to extend this to whole new worlds - and not even real worlds, no less. This is not a good direction to be going because it means all our current problems are just going to be ported into any new worlds we find, create, or discover.
Sorry, but that's not going to help you. The whole point of cable for many people is that the digital transition in February, excuse me June, excuse me whenever, doesn't affect cable viewers since they will continue to receive the same analogue signal they have to this point.
Your other points might be more valid.
Netflix Streaming Censored Movie Versions
Did you mean it that way, or to bundle XP with Windows 7?
Your way is funnier.
Great! This means that I can continue running CARDFILE.EXE from my Windows 3.1 installation. This program has migrated successfully from 3.1 to 95OEMB, 98SP1, 2000, and XP. I've not gone to Vista since I've yet to find a simple, free replacement that would have run under Vista and (hopefully) imported the .CRD files. (Also Vista is full of DRM, and would run like crap on my Vista Ready embedded Nvidia 6150 graphics desktop, and likely break other applications as well.)
Sometimes you want a program to just do one simple thing well. CARDFILE is one of those programs. Now it looks like it ought to run under the right -- read expensive -- version(s) of W7.
If there's a better replacement, feel free to point it out to me and I'll appreciate it.
If AT&T can't hold their customers away from Verizon (and all the current customers are locked into 2 year contracts with nasty termination fees) it's because of their crappy service and high rates. If they fixed that then they would need to worry about the competition so much. In fact, competition is exactly their problem - they don't want any!
And oh yes, their whole rational for expedited discovery is complete B.S. They are trying to get the identifying information before anyone can rally to stop them.
And don't forget that this entire case is a sham proceeding to start with. They have no intention of seeking actual relief for their alleged damages at trial. This case will be dismissed - because it absolutely cannot be won - the moment they've misused the court system to get private information not available to them otherwise. It's a loophole in the court system that needs to be closed now that people are learning the true need of privacy from well-funded, unscrupulous, enemies.
Improper joinder.
No valid reason for ex parte proceedings.
And apparently a good part of your mind.
A MAC address of (hex encoded ascii) I:M:A:P:I:R:A:T
Or maybe: 01:R:I:A:A:S:U:X
Of course you might not be allowed on the network with an unfamiliar MAC address, but then there's always the Internet cafe down the road.
It seems to me that you have a record of losing before exactly TWO judges - one Magistrate and one Real judge - out of the hundreds or thousands of them throughout this great country. That you keep having to face these same TWO rigid (need I say, dishonest?) judges who have managed to corral ALL of these cases in their district into their own courtroom because they have accepted the RIAA lies that all of these cases are related, and too complicated for other judges to understand. It is like all bank robbery cases in the district going to The Hanging Judge - or all murder cases being heard by The Bleeding Heart Liberal Left Judge. There is no chance to see a preponderance of legal opinion being shown to Mr. Beckerman when he continually has to face the same TWO judges every time. This is not justice, or fairness, or equality to these Defendants.
I suppose we should thank the woefully ignorant Magistrate Judge who bowed and scraped to every half-baked RIAA argument presented to him. If he's not already on the take from the RIAA for that performance, he should be. After all, it was only his incredibly dumb performance, validated by the trial judge who barely took the time for the decision to reach him, let alone actually read it, that have created the issues for this appeal.
That, and the fact that John Doe #3 is willing to fight this out. Perhaps the RIAA figured no college kid would actually take it this far.
I expect the RIAA to try to get out of this one and hope it will just go away. After all, sooner or later this had to happen so they must have a contingency plan - something more compelling than telling the Appeals Court that the Defendant has no chance of winning - to deal with this situation when it finally arrived.
Given the Great Firewall of China and their survelance of all Internet traffic, Chinese denials of these hacking attempts ring hollow.
Some of the remaining price certainly has to go to pay for the Whispernet connection. Remember that there is a significant amount of free stuff you can d/l to your Kindle.
I remember The Stars and Strips Forever played on a Control Data Corporation 3500 mainframe that used both a built-in speaker (controlled by the lower bits in a register) in the console, and 4 high-speed half-inch tape drives with three-foot tall vacuum columns for the bass section.
And then there was radio static music on an IBM 1130 mini from a program written in Fortran IV. The bulk of the program, after reading in the data cards with the notes of the song to play, consisted of a DO loop containing about thirty CONTINUE statements. So much for any sort of optimizing compiler on the IBM hardware. I tried the same program on a CDC 1704 mini, which was considered a reasonably comparable machine at the time and the 3 minute song "played" in 3 seconds. I still consider it my first comparative computer benchmark run.
Life was simpler and we were entertained more easily by clever hacks in those days.
I knew that there was a reason (besides that fact that it scans legal size and few other so) that I kept that HP ScanJet 3C.
Now that they have the plans let them build their own and bankrupt themselves in the process. Then we win!
The content industry has won NOTHING yet against TPB. As long as TPB is up and running anywhere int he world the copyright zealots haven't won a darned thing except press headlines.
The reason you don't (or shouldn't expect to) see freely shared music in TPB's Top 100 is that you don't need TPB to find and acquire freely shared music. It has other legitimate sources which aren't in danger of being shut down through legal action - although Big Music would certainly shut them down if they could.
You sound like you want a high power server (multiple VM's) with significant storage (multiple TB's) to run on no power in an unconditioned environment. And you want it affordable. Those are rather contradictory requirements, rather like having cake and eating it too.
34K on a default judgment? Default judgment means he lost because he never showed up. How did you spend this much against a guy who never showed up to defend himself?