Internally at Intel, we had an employee bonus tied to the "race to a gigahertz" with AMD. And have you seen the price differences for small speed increases at the high end? More RAM would make a much bigger difference.
I think. W00T! Anyway, Go is actually a much more interesting and elegant game, for both playing and programming. A neural network program is active in the computer Go scene. Dedicated hardware would be interesting for Go, as it is essentially a simple matrix--maybe a very elegant computer player could be made.
Ah yeah, but I think drive-thru isn't taxed usually. And I'm from Oregon, sales tax free. Actually the best places just include the sales tax in the price and give you a rounded figure. I think movie places do this.
No big deal online, but it does annoy at, e.g. fast food places with 99 cent menus. You have to deal with getting a penny back.
But that's not the point. The sickness is that these marketers don't care that they are making the world a more annoying and less elegant place in the hope of maybe getting more purchases (I know I'm much less likely to buy stuff with prices like that).
Ok, it's a tangent, but the whole marketing prices I think is a symbol of distrust. Large corporations (who are more likely to do the ".99" nonsense) are willing to insult their customers in the belief that they may get more sales. It's fitting that the artists get so little--clearly they don't respect them either. It's a sickness, and it's disgusting.
Check out mram and other technologies that will replace flash, RAM, and even CPU cache. Harddrives are noisy and power intensive. Far from an elegant solution.
Castle Wolfenstein: enemy territory. America's Army is free, but government funded. By the way, in the future, completely open and free games will have so much depth and substance it'll blow your mind.
Instead of charging $9.99 (damn marketing prices), charge a nominal amount and ask for donations. They could organize the donations and take a cut. The gift economy is the future, and they don't realize it!
1) Scan the new Potter book.
2) Print on paper.
3) Sell.
4) Profit!
Well it would be cool if like people were selling copies made illegally in the streets. Down with IP!
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Internally at Intel, we had an employee bonus tied to the "race to a gigahertz" with AMD. And have you seen the price differences for small speed increases at the high end? More RAM would make a much bigger difference.
I think. W00T! Anyway, Go is actually a much more interesting and elegant game, for both playing and programming. A neural network program is active in the computer Go scene. Dedicated hardware would be interesting for Go, as it is essentially a simple matrix--maybe a very elegant computer player could be made.
It is copyright law that is illigetimate.
It's just illegal. Information wants to be free.
Well if you agree, I assume you would rather get non-marketing prices too. So that's two of us!
Ah yeah, but I think drive-thru isn't taxed usually. And I'm from Oregon, sales tax free. Actually the best places just include the sales tax in the price and give you a rounded figure. I think movie places do this.
No big deal online, but it does annoy at, e.g. fast food places with 99 cent menus. You have to deal with getting a penny back. But that's not the point. The sickness is that these marketers don't care that they are making the world a more annoying and less elegant place in the hope of maybe getting more purchases (I know I'm much less likely to buy stuff with prices like that).
Ok, it's a tangent, but the whole marketing prices I think is a symbol of distrust. Large corporations (who are more likely to do the ".99" nonsense) are willing to insult their customers in the belief that they may get more sales. It's fitting that the artists get so little--clearly they don't respect them either. It's a sickness, and it's disgusting.
Check out mram and other technologies that will replace flash, RAM, and even CPU cache. Harddrives are noisy and power intensive. Far from an elegant solution.
But then I thought, shouldn't donations be considered sales?
Then there would be no crime for the FBI to investigate.
Castle Wolfenstein: enemy territory. America's Army is free, but government funded. By the way, in the future, completely open and free games will have so much depth and substance it'll blow your mind.
One I think is quite relevant. If you have a store selling widgets, would you charge $9.99, or $10.00?
Hmm, where should we start. Blender. Xiph.
Instead of charging $9.99 (damn marketing prices), charge a nominal amount and ask for donations. They could organize the donations and take a cut. The gift economy is the future, and they don't realize it!
sucks.
1) Scan the new Potter book. 2) Print on paper. 3) Sell. 4) Profit! Well it would be cool if like people were selling copies made illegally in the streets. Down with IP!
...and we'll end there. Libertarianism is "conservative" anarchy--don't get there too soon, but head that way.
look it up.
AIDS drugs anyone?
I agree IP will go away, but I wonder about the timeframe. It may come as a consequence of a much huger change, where we go to complete anarchy.
As they die off, we'll finally remove all "intellectual property" laws!
In other words, not ranting "Information wants to be FREE! Ban IP!"
Arguing against software patents is like arguing against slave imports. "Intellectual property" needs to be abolished, just as slavery was.
The only sane thing to do is banish all "intellectual property" laws.