The real question is: Did Nvidia simply make enough of these (~30 - 200) certainly very carefully hand-picked chips to homologate them as a valid offering in claiming the top spot on the performance charts...
...or are they actually producing them in quantity such that anyone who wants one can buy one at the stated price?
Personally I'm betting on the former being far more likely than the latter.
all but the Milky Way's closest neighbors will eventually be out of sight
Wouldn't that only happen if they were receding at greater than the speed of light? Otherwise the light would still get to us, just being dimmer because of the increased distance.
They have a sales tax, right? They're just extending it to non-tangible goods.
It's more than that. Now Apple (although probably not Amazon since they maintain they have no presence in NY) will have to collect a special tax strictly for NY residents, and pay that tax regularly to the state, and maybe file additional reports at additional expense, and no longer have the nicely uniform 99 cents/download price/image - and that's the effect on just one company alone. Multiply this by every company affected in every new area and the burden is significant.
Of course NY prides itself on being a very liberal state, and Joe Biden has said that paying taxes is a civil duty. Maybe they'll like having this happen to them. If not they can always vote some new people in - oh wait! The election is already over and you're stuck with these clowns for at least the next 2 years.
(If you say why Apple? It's because there are Apple computer stores in NYC giving the state tax people something to get their claws into.)
I would rather have less government for less money. Did you ever note that politicians always say they'll have to cut the most inflammatory items - police, fire, libraries - first? How about their own salaries next time for starters?
And you can increase efficiency even more if you can harness those caffeine overcharged individuals who just consumed the coffee to peddles to help power their vehicles.
As long as there's retribution in the form of everything from lawsuits to unmask those who disagree with corporations to HR departments including an "Internet Search" as part of the hiring practice anonymity on the Internet is the only way we can enjoy freewheeling and honest discussions.
Yes there will be bad actors on both sides, but I'll pay that price as opposed to the alternative.
"Your honour, I once experimented with encryption, but could not understand how it worked. The files must be leftovers of that installation. I never used them and they must be empty."
Okay, Sir. We'll just help you out by deleting all those pesky empty files and perform a wipe of your free space afterwards. This will recover all that space that you assure us has nothing of value in it. And then we'll check up on you every week or three just to ensure, mind you, that you don't have any of that pesky encryption stealing away your disc space any longer. It's just all part of the service.
Word meaning is fluid, especially when it comes to slang.
Yes it certainly is attempted to be made fluid when it comes to "marriage". For centuries everyone knew what "marriage" meant, and what it didn't mean. Now all of a sudden one is trying to redefine the law and custom by redefining the meaning of the word as and end-around to actually legislating a change in the proper manner.
Now where have I ever heard of that concept before??? Hum...
Oh, right...
George Orwell's "1984" newspeak. And we all (at least the literate ones among us) know how well that turned out.
Maybe we should not let words be quite so "fluid". After all, he who controls the definitions of the words controls society itself.
What is stated in TFA would clearly seem to be a personal opinion, and as such protected. Certainly the poster's valid opinion of the state of the DD shop is at least equal to that of the owner. I don't see the case here, or why it was allowed to get this far.
Note to anonymous poster: Next time document your comment with a couple shots from your camera phone. Truth is an excellent defense in the USA against such charges. Also add the words, "In my opinion..."
In Britain, however, this would be an entirely different matter.
Sorry Maryland, but you're too small of a state to be allowed to decide such an important issue for the whole country - even if your ruling would only apply within your own tiny state boundaries. You need to punt the issue to some larger state - like Texas or California.
Is it time for Australia to just fall off this planet entirely? You can say that it's just the government and the judges, but who elected that government who put in those judges in the first place?
I see your problem. Instead of C# they should have been teaching you Visual Basic.
[Ducks rocks, stones, brickbats, flames, gunfire, flying fanboys, Steve Jobs, and moderately sized precision guided asteroids]
Not only does that let you write in Visual Studio as effectively as C#, but you with very little extra effort you can expand that to also write and maintain Microsoft Office applications including Access written in Visual Basic for Applications, legacy applications written in Visual Basic 6/5/4, and Visual Basic Script based code. And that gives you a wide field of expertise dealing in a lot of the existing code already out there.
The solution is to put out a lot of fake items (e.g. empty envelope sent by USPS) for $1 as well. The automated script wins thousands of these, bankrupting the Script Kiddies. Moral: Look before you bid.
This won't be a serious public issue until it shows up on an episode of Boston Legal. And they better hurry since that show is in it its final, truncated, season.
Real world cases are the best kind to learn from. Especially those on the emerging cusp of new legal theories.
Now how long before the RIAA starts filing protests on how public money is financing the cases against them (and the need for Congressional action to Stop That Now), or targeting those schools providing such assistance for "enhanced enforcement" actions?
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The real question is: Did Nvidia simply make enough of these (~30 - 200) certainly very carefully hand-picked chips to homologate them as a valid offering in claiming the top spot on the performance charts...
...or are they actually producing them in quantity such that anyone who wants one can buy one at the stated price?
Personally I'm betting on the former being far more likely than the latter.
Wouldn't that only happen if they were receding at greater than the speed of light? Otherwise the light would still get to us, just being dimmer because of the increased distance.
It's more than that. Now Apple (although probably not Amazon since they maintain they have no presence in NY) will have to collect a special tax strictly for NY residents, and pay that tax regularly to the state, and maybe file additional reports at additional expense, and no longer have the nicely uniform 99 cents/download price/image - and that's the effect on just one company alone. Multiply this by every company affected in every new area and the burden is significant.
Of course NY prides itself on being a very liberal state, and Joe Biden has said that paying taxes is a civil duty. Maybe they'll like having this happen to them. If not they can always vote some new people in - oh wait! The election is already over and you're stuck with these clowns for at least the next 2 years.
(If you say why Apple? It's because there are Apple computer stores in NYC giving the state tax people something to get their claws into.)
I would rather have less government for less money. Did you ever note that politicians always say they'll have to cut the most inflammatory items - police, fire, libraries - first? How about their own salaries next time for starters?
Tell me again how nuclear is (at minimum) 25X more polluting than wind or solar please. I think I missed that part.
And it would be even better if Microsoft got all of the DRM crap out W7 that never belonged in the operating system in the first place!
And you can increase efficiency even more if you can harness those caffeine overcharged individuals who just consumed the coffee to peddles to help power their vehicles.
As long as there's retribution in the form of everything from lawsuits to unmask those who disagree with corporations to HR departments including an "Internet Search" as part of the hiring practice anonymity on the Internet is the only way we can enjoy freewheeling and honest discussions.
Yes there will be bad actors on both sides, but I'll pay that price as opposed to the alternative.
It's not that nasty behavior is going on, but who determines what constitutes nasty.
Okay, Sir. We'll just help you out by deleting all those pesky empty files and perform a wipe of your free space afterwards. This will recover all that space that you assure us has nothing of value in it. And then we'll check up on you every week or three just to ensure, mind you, that you don't have any of that pesky encryption stealing away your disc space any longer. It's just all part of the service.
In short, keep it simple because we're stupid - but we intend to violate your rights anyway!
Use graphine and save the silicon for the women who need it.
Yes it certainly is attempted to be made fluid when it comes to "marriage". For centuries everyone knew what "marriage" meant, and what it didn't mean. Now all of a sudden one is trying to redefine the law and custom by redefining the meaning of the word as and end-around to actually legislating a change in the proper manner.
Now where have I ever heard of that concept before??? Hum...
Oh, right...
George Orwell's "1984" newspeak. And we all (at least the literate ones among us) know how well that turned out.
Maybe we should not let words be quite so "fluid". After all, he who controls the definitions of the words controls society itself.
What is stated in TFA would clearly seem to be a personal opinion, and as such protected. Certainly the poster's valid opinion of the state of the DD shop is at least equal to that of the owner. I don't see the case here, or why it was allowed to get this far.
Note to anonymous poster: Next time document your comment with a couple shots from your camera phone. Truth is an excellent defense in the USA against such charges. Also add the words, "In my opinion..."
In Britain, however, this would be an entirely different matter.
Sorry Maryland, but you're too small of a state to be allowed to decide such an important issue for the whole country - even if your ruling would only apply within your own tiny state boundaries. You need to punt the issue to some larger state - like Texas or California.
This is easy to crack. Don't smile for your DL picture, and do smile the rest of the time. It will make the world a better place in the process.
Does FF3 run on Win98SE? It's hard to find a direct statement of its requirements.
Is it time for Australia to just fall off this planet entirely? You can say that it's just the government and the judges, but who elected that government who put in those judges in the first place?
And this "lesbian fiction" is found where today?
I see your problem. Instead of C# they should have been teaching you Visual Basic.
[Ducks rocks, stones, brickbats, flames, gunfire, flying fanboys, Steve Jobs, and moderately sized precision guided asteroids]
Not only does that let you write in Visual Studio as effectively as C#, but you with very little extra effort you can expand that to also write and maintain Microsoft Office applications including Access written in Visual Basic for Applications, legacy applications written in Visual Basic 6/5/4, and Visual Basic Script based code. And that gives you a wide field of expertise dealing in a lot of the existing code already out there.
Be interesting if the source was published to Wikileaks.
Yeah, lots and lots of versions as they fix lots and lots of bugs due to everyone trying to beat everyone else to market.
The solution is to put out a lot of fake items (e.g. empty envelope sent by USPS) for $1 as well. The automated script wins thousands of these, bankrupting the Script Kiddies. Moral: Look before you bid.
This won't be a serious public issue until it shows up on an episode of Boston Legal. And they better hurry since that show is in it its final, truncated, season.
Now how long before the RIAA starts filing protests on how public money is financing the cases against them (and the need for Congressional action to Stop That Now), or targeting those schools providing such assistance for "enhanced enforcement" actions?