Seattle WA: Microsoft, with the ink barely dry on its chip deal with ATI, turned around and sued ATI in an attempt to get ATI to lower its chip prices.
A Microsoft spokesperson was quoted as saying, "We're losing about 100 dollars on each Xbox we sell. We feel that ATI should bear the burden of at least some of these tremendous loses. At least until we steal their technology and get our own chip plant up to speed."
And like I said, there are freaks who spend days downloading a Divx movie just to save 20 bucks. You guys exist, you're just WAY in the minority. The vast majority would just rather buy the book and read it in a convenient time and location.
"The old argument that no one likes reading on a computer has pretty much eroded."
I know plenty of people who read books, but I have yet to meet a single person who has read an entire book on the computer.
This reminds me of those morons who spend days downloading all of the needed rar files to watch a crappy Hollywood movie in Divx format. Some may do it, but the vast majority will not.
Think about how and when people read books. On the way to work, on their work break, waiting at the DMV, sitting on the couch with their feet up, sitting outside in the park on a sunny day, etc. In other words, book publishers have NOTHING to worry about.
I've installed and ran Red Hat and Mandrake's versions of Linux. Mandrake's installed like a dream but I could never get my scanner, digital camera, and printer to work. But that's not the annoying part, because I know I could have gotten them to work if I tried a little harder.
What I find annoying about Linux cannot and will not be fixed. My problem is that I'm used to doing things the "Windows way" and it's aggrivating having to learn new ways. I guess I'm getting old.
One of these days (I've been saying that for years) I'm going to have to stop using a dual boot as a crutch, install Linux, learning it, and say goodbye to Windows forever.
You could be correct. However, as long as no one uses Photoshop in Linux, Adobe has no incentive to release a native Linux version. The only way Adobe will have such incentive is if a sufficient number of Linux users would be willing to buy copies. This could be shown if Linux users started using their Windows copies in Linux AND they let Adobe know that their Windows copy is actually being used in Linux.
I have to admit that I was annoyed by this whole SCO thing, but this last move is hilarious!!! Without offering even one bit of proof they expect companies and indivduals to just turn over a boat load of money.
I'm torn by this too. You're point appears valid, Linux shouldn't become an "emulator" for Windows software.
On the other hand, if enough people start using Photoshop in Linux via wine, it might create a critical mass of users to compel Adobe to do a native version.
I totally agree that there is good music being created today. The problem is that it's not given any exposure. In the 60s and up to the mid 70s DJs were free to play what they wanted. That led to more open play lists and allowed for a wider range of talent to become successful.
However, by the time the 70s ended the music industry was in a rut. Rock radio had become heavily formatted to the Album Rock style and you couldn't get on the radio unless you sounded like Journey, Styx, or REO Speedwagon.
That stagnation ended when MTV started getting into more homes. Suddenly artists that were not getting played on the radio were getting exposure to an audience. The Police, U2, Michael Jackson, Rap all owe a tremendous debt to MTV.
Forward to the 90s when companies such as ClearChannel are placing tighter formats on the radio dial and MTV is not playing new music anymore. Is it any wonder that music sales are down?
So, I agree that there is great music being made today, but if no one hears it, it certainly will not sell.
It's called res judicata. It's a legal principal that all possible claims against a party must be brought at the same time. It's in every settlement agreement even thought it doesn't really need to be as it's just a bedrock principal of US law.
That capacitor problem affected many MB manufactures, not just Abit. But unlike the others, Abit admitted there was a problem and offered to replace the affected boards.
I can't even remember how many flawless Abit based systems I've built.
However, I do remember the one that died. Lightening hit a power transformer right outside the house causing a power outage throughout the neighborhood. When the power came back on the computer wouldn't boot because the board was fried. I told my friend to buy a power surge, but he wouldn't listen. That's certainly not Abit's fault.
Microsoft will certainly legally challenge Linux and the GPL. They are just waiting for the right moment. Let's assume that SCO's suit amounts to nothing. That's be a great time for Microsoft to try the same thing all over again. Even if it lost, after several years of threatening lawsuits corporations would be afraid of adopting it. And any momentum it had would be gone.
Let's face it, Microsoft cannot beat open source on price or quality. FUD is its only weapon.
What slander? What was false about the story? The guy MOVED from the US to Canada. He no longer has a valid address in the US. Do you expect him to lie, i.e., commit fraud against both Apple and his credit card company?!
You Apple users are freaks. You actually ENJOY being ripped off!!!
I agree totally. This is asinine. Why would any one choose to spend $400 to play second rate games when they could spend half as much and play all the top games.
Plus, you can rent console games. You can loan out the copy of copy of consol games. It appears with the Phantom that all games are tied to the hard drive.
And that whole idea that smaller game developers can get their stuff published and sold via the Phantom is ludicrous. There already is such a platform in place. The PC. If people won't buy these games for their PC, why would they ever buy them after buying a Phantom?!
I'll always hate Tower Records. First, it killed School Kids Records in Ann Arbor. School Kids was amazing, the prices were high but you could find anything you wanted and the sales people knew music inside and out and were utterly willing to help.
Second, it was nearly impossible to find anything at Tower. Once I went looking for a CD by Blue Cheer. They were a white boy blues, psychedelic, hard rock trio from the late 60s. Tower has all music separated into genre. Since the store did not have a genre for white boy blues, psychedelic, hard rock, I looked under Metal. I looked under Rock. I looked under every genre I could think of then I just gave up.
I went home, got on Amazon, found the CD within seconds, and had it shipped within the week WITHOUT paying sales tax or shipping.
I remember several years ago someone at Tom's site reviewed and benchmarked a number of videcards. The offering from 3dfx did pretty well in the Quake 2/OpenGL benchmarks. The writer stated that the 3dfx did well because "OpenGL was its native API."
First, as anyone with a brain knows, 3dfx's native API was Glide, NOT OpenGL.
Second, I don't think 3dfx ever released a full OpenGL API to go with their cards. If I remember correctly they used a wrapper of some sort to make OpenGL work.
Third, since 3dfx was not using a real implimentation of OpenGL, they were free to cheat to make benchmarks appear much faster.
I was just shocked that Tom had someone so incredibly ignorant performing benchmarks and writing reviews. It then occured to me that maybe, just maybe, Tom himself wasn't too bright. After that fiasco I stopped reading Tom's site.
What do you mean it's "unambiguous"?! How could full speed be slower than high speed? Full speed means speed at it's fullest, i.e. the speed cannot get any higher.
High does not mean highest, it necessarily means that it's slower than the highest speed.
Anyone with a brain would think that "full speed" would be faster than "high speed." Hence, the naming is necessarily ambiguous!
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Seattle WA: Microsoft, with the ink barely dry on its chip deal with ATI, turned around and sued ATI in an attempt to get ATI to lower its chip prices.
A Microsoft spokesperson was quoted as saying, "We're losing about 100 dollars on each Xbox we sell. We feel that ATI should bear the burden of at least some of these tremendous loses. At least until we steal their technology and get our own chip plant up to speed."
Judge: Mr. Gates, your company owes Eolas $521 million in damages.
Gates: Sure, let me get my wallet!
And like I said, there are freaks who spend days downloading a Divx movie just to save 20 bucks. You guys exist, you're just WAY in the minority. The vast majority would just rather buy the book and read it in a convenient time and location.
"The old argument that no one likes reading on a computer has pretty much eroded."
I know plenty of people who read books, but I have yet to meet a single person who has read an entire book on the computer.
This reminds me of those morons who spend days downloading all of the needed rar files to watch a crappy Hollywood movie in Divx format. Some may do it, but the vast majority will not.
Think about how and when people read books. On the way to work, on their work break, waiting at the DMV, sitting on the couch with their feet up, sitting outside in the park on a sunny day, etc. In other words, book publishers have NOTHING to worry about.
"If NVIDIA went under, I would love to see what all of the NVIDIA Linux users would do."
The same thing that 3dfx users did: Buy new cards when their old cards were no longer usable.
I've installed and ran Red Hat and Mandrake's versions of Linux. Mandrake's installed like a dream but I could never get my scanner, digital camera, and printer to work. But that's not the annoying part, because I know I could have gotten them to work if I tried a little harder.
What I find annoying about Linux cannot and will not be fixed. My problem is that I'm used to doing things the "Windows way" and it's aggrivating having to learn new ways. I guess I'm getting old.
One of these days (I've been saying that for years) I'm going to have to stop using a dual boot as a crutch, install Linux, learning it, and say goodbye to Windows forever.
Yeah right. The GPL should ditched so that companies could get rich turning other people's code into proprietary products.
Having a set price for an item has ALWAYS been obvious. From the begining of sales to now, INCLUDING 1995!!!
You could be correct. However, as long as no one uses Photoshop in Linux, Adobe has no incentive to release a native Linux version. The only way Adobe will have such incentive is if a sufficient number of Linux users would be willing to buy copies. This could be shown if Linux users started using their Windows copies in Linux AND they let Adobe know that their Windows copy is actually being used in Linux.
I have to admit that I was annoyed by this whole SCO thing, but this last move is hilarious!!! Without offering even one bit of proof they expect companies and indivduals to just turn over a boat load of money.
I'm torn by this too. You're point appears valid, Linux shouldn't become an "emulator" for Windows software.
On the other hand, if enough people start using Photoshop in Linux via wine, it might create a critical mass of users to compel Adobe to do a native version.
I totally agree that there is good music being created today. The problem is that it's not given any exposure. In the 60s and up to the mid 70s DJs were free to play what they wanted. That led to more open play lists and allowed for a wider range of talent to become successful.
However, by the time the 70s ended the music industry was in a rut. Rock radio had become heavily formatted to the Album Rock style and you couldn't get on the radio unless you sounded like Journey, Styx, or REO Speedwagon.
That stagnation ended when MTV started getting into more homes. Suddenly artists that were not getting played on the radio were getting exposure to an audience. The Police, U2, Michael Jackson, Rap all owe a tremendous debt to MTV.
Forward to the 90s when companies such as ClearChannel are placing tighter formats on the radio dial and MTV is not playing new music anymore. Is it any wonder that music sales are down?
So, I agree that there is great music being made today, but if no one hears it, it certainly will not sell.
It's called res judicata. It's a legal principal that all possible claims against a party must be brought at the same time. It's in every settlement agreement even thought it doesn't really need to be as it's just a bedrock principal of US law.
Shouldn't respect be a two way street?!
The list clearly shows the pattern the RIAA is following, I can't help but agree. Those people with such awful tastes in music SHOULD be in prison!!!
That capacitor problem affected many MB manufactures, not just Abit. But unlike the others, Abit admitted there was a problem and offered to replace the affected boards.
I can't even remember how many flawless Abit based systems I've built.
However, I do remember the one that died. Lightening hit a power transformer right outside the house causing a power outage throughout the neighborhood. When the power came back on the computer wouldn't boot because the board was fried. I told my friend to buy a power surge, but he wouldn't listen. That's certainly not Abit's fault.
Microsoft will certainly legally challenge Linux and the GPL. They are just waiting for the right moment. Let's assume that SCO's suit amounts to nothing. That's be a great time for Microsoft to try the same thing all over again. Even if it lost, after several years of threatening lawsuits corporations would be afraid of adopting it. And any momentum it had would be gone.
Let's face it, Microsoft cannot beat open source on price or quality. FUD is its only weapon.
What slander? What was false about the story? The guy MOVED from the US to Canada. He no longer has a valid address in the US. Do you expect him to lie, i.e., commit fraud against both Apple and his credit card company?!
You Apple users are freaks. You actually ENJOY being ripped off!!!
I agree totally. This is asinine. Why would any one choose to spend $400 to play second rate games when they could spend half as much and play all the top games.
Plus, you can rent console games. You can loan out the copy of copy of consol games. It appears with the Phantom that all games are tied to the hard drive.
And that whole idea that smaller game developers can get their stuff published and sold via the Phantom is ludicrous. There already is such a platform in place. The PC. If people won't buy these games for their PC, why would they ever buy them after buying a Phantom?!
I'll always hate Tower Records. First, it killed School Kids Records in Ann Arbor. School Kids was amazing, the prices were high but you could find anything you wanted and the sales people knew music inside and out and were utterly willing to help.
Second, it was nearly impossible to find anything at Tower. Once I went looking for a CD by Blue Cheer. They were a white boy blues, psychedelic, hard rock trio from the late 60s. Tower has all music separated into genre. Since the store did not have a genre for white boy blues, psychedelic, hard rock, I looked under Metal. I looked under Rock. I looked under every genre I could think of then I just gave up.
I went home, got on Amazon, found the CD within seconds, and had it shipped within the week WITHOUT paying sales tax or shipping.
Oh yeah, I'm crying over Tower's death!
That's hilarious, but I couldn't help but think I was reading a bit of satire from the onion.com
"Do some reading on the 970. Its bus is clocked at 1/4 the speed of the processor, DDR. So the effective bus speed of the 2 GHz version is 1 GHz."
1/4 of 2 GHz is not 1 Ghz you moron!
"I wish Tom would get a clue."
I remember several years ago someone at Tom's site reviewed and benchmarked a number of videcards. The offering from 3dfx did pretty well in the Quake 2/OpenGL benchmarks. The writer stated that the 3dfx did well because "OpenGL was its native API."
First, as anyone with a brain knows, 3dfx's native API was Glide, NOT OpenGL.
Second, I don't think 3dfx ever released a full OpenGL API to go with their cards. If I remember correctly they used a wrapper of some sort to make OpenGL work.
Third, since 3dfx was not using a real implimentation of OpenGL, they were free to cheat to make benchmarks appear much faster.
I was just shocked that Tom had someone so incredibly ignorant performing benchmarks and writing reviews. It then occured to me that maybe, just maybe, Tom himself wasn't too bright. After that fiasco I stopped reading Tom's site.
What do you mean it's "unambiguous"?! How could full speed be slower than high speed? Full speed means speed at it's fullest, i.e. the speed cannot get any higher.
High does not mean highest, it necessarily means that it's slower than the highest speed.
Anyone with a brain would think that "full speed" would be faster than "high speed." Hence, the naming is necessarily ambiguous!