I don't know about you but here in France we have rules to deal with illicit Poster ads.
It's a 100 year old law that people/companies put up on their walls stating that posters will be prosecuted as well as those for whom they are advertising.
This takes care of that. If spam laws targetted as well retail stores advertised by the said spams, than far more less Viagra/Nigerian etc stores would be paying spammers to do this.
It's as simple as that, why can't it be done?
Don't tell me these stores are abroad, there are international laws for that. Also most of these spam advertised companies are US based.
Just suck it up Intel, GIve us what we want!!
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Is it just me or does anybody have the felling Intel is completly lead by Marketing GHZ frills?
Looks to me like they didn't make the most efficient chip, they just designed a straight shooter for 4/5 GHZ.
We all know their current P4 Extreme are real Power hogs and not all that efficient.
Thus my question, why can't they focus on delivering a 9nm version of the Pentium M?
With it's low consumption and heat they could have surely clocked this big boy in the 3.2GHz area and taken care of AMD.
All these benchmarks won't make a difference as Mom & Pop will go to COMPUSA and be this computer is Faster-than-3Ghx-because-it's-a4-Ghz.
Time to get some AMD stock
Funny how lego has been so succesfull up until when their brick patent expired. Immediately then a Canadian (huh, it's not chinese?) competitor Megablock http://www.megabloks.com/ came in with compatible and cheaper bricks.
Lego tried ruling them out in courts, but the EEC enforced the patents expiration.
Megablok is eating Lego's marketshare like hotcakes here in France.
Mega bloks strategy is quite simple:
1) comptabile lego bricks
2) cheaper than lego bricks
3) big buckets of random pieces to start a collection
4) if lego comes out with a Harry Potter collection, they bring out a Generic Magician range (no cross branding).
Hugely succesfull as I stated.
I believe Lego has lacked innovation due to such a long period of growth and protection under a patent.
Don't be fooled by the companie's leader position (remember what happenned to Anderson). If this company doesn't have an electrochoc and start innovating again, it could be gone 10 years from now.
I still remember/.ers slashing the Ipod to pieces. "yeah it will never work... too bulky etc...". Yet no that IPod embraces success everybody praises it. I'm not predicting success or failure here. I just want to highlight that/. readers have been wrong before and it can happen again. Even though I don't like this new device, I somehow have a felling MSFT marketeers will make it as desirable as the IPOD.
UPS of Fedex for axample.
Imagine a truck full of DVD's or whatever medium.
You can get next day delivery from Geneva to LA or whatever the place.
Do the Math.
Let's say this truck can hold 100 000 DVDs.
That equals 900 000 GB of DATA (using double density discs). That equals to 900 Terabytes or 0.9 petabytes.
Anyway let's say it takes 24 hours to send across the globe (I'm not even considering taking the plane right away and flying 14 hours to LA)
This would give us a Transfer rate of 900 000 / (24*60*60)=10.41 GB/sec.
Yup that's right you've doubled the bandwith using good old planes and trains (you name it)
The cost? Probably too much for the average joe.
However I'm curious to know what the rent on that 5.44 Gbps is for 24 hours, probably more.
Also Imagine if you had to set up such a transfer, the kind of machines you would need and their price.
I'll go with FedEX for my data Transmission.
Olivier
I'm sorry but your solution might not be as easy as that. When Microsoft and other companies massively fighting against piracy start charging MORE for versions of their products that run on DRM-free CPU's consumers will go for it.
Consumers always go for the short/medium term solution. Sure you will (as a geek) decide to pay that extra 50$ for windows on DRM-Free processors. Can't see Dell, HP or others going this way, this translates into millions for them.
FYI, I am strictly against such type of DRM. This means that files you would create could potentially hold your unique identifier, which I trully dislike.
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I don't know about you but here in France we have rules to deal with illicit Poster ads. It's a 100 year old law that people/companies put up on their walls stating that posters will be prosecuted as well as those for whom they are advertising. This takes care of that. If spam laws targetted as well retail stores advertised by the said spams, than far more less Viagra/Nigerian etc stores would be paying spammers to do this. It's as simple as that, why can't it be done? Don't tell me these stores are abroad, there are international laws for that. Also most of these spam advertised companies are US based.
Is it just me or does anybody have the felling Intel is completly lead by Marketing GHZ frills? Looks to me like they didn't make the most efficient chip, they just designed a straight shooter for 4/5 GHZ. We all know their current P4 Extreme are real Power hogs and not all that efficient. Thus my question, why can't they focus on delivering a 9nm version of the Pentium M? With it's low consumption and heat they could have surely clocked this big boy in the 3.2GHz area and taken care of AMD. All these benchmarks won't make a difference as Mom & Pop will go to COMPUSA and be this computer is Faster-than-3Ghx-because-it's-a4-Ghz. Time to get some AMD stock
Funny how lego has been so succesfull up until when their brick patent expired. Immediately then a Canadian (huh, it's not chinese?) competitor Megablock http://www.megabloks.com/ came in with compatible and cheaper bricks. Lego tried ruling them out in courts, but the EEC enforced the patents expiration. Megablok is eating Lego's marketshare like hotcakes here in France. Mega bloks strategy is quite simple: 1) comptabile lego bricks 2) cheaper than lego bricks 3) big buckets of random pieces to start a collection 4) if lego comes out with a Harry Potter collection, they bring out a Generic Magician range (no cross branding). Hugely succesfull as I stated. I believe Lego has lacked innovation due to such a long period of growth and protection under a patent. Don't be fooled by the companie's leader position (remember what happenned to Anderson). If this company doesn't have an electrochoc and start innovating again, it could be gone 10 years from now.
I still remember /.ers slashing the Ipod to pieces. "yeah it will never work... too bulky etc...". Yet no that IPod embraces success everybody praises it. /. readers have been wrong before and it can happen again.
I'm not predicting success or failure here. I just want to highlight that
Even though I don't like this new device, I somehow have a felling MSFT marketeers will make it as desirable as the IPOD.
UPS of Fedex for axample. Imagine a truck full of DVD's or whatever medium. You can get next day delivery from Geneva to LA or whatever the place. Do the Math. Let's say this truck can hold 100 000 DVDs. That equals 900 000 GB of DATA (using double density discs). That equals to 900 Terabytes or 0.9 petabytes. Anyway let's say it takes 24 hours to send across the globe (I'm not even considering taking the plane right away and flying 14 hours to LA) This would give us a Transfer rate of 900 000 / (24*60*60)=10.41 GB/sec. Yup that's right you've doubled the bandwith using good old planes and trains (you name it) The cost? Probably too much for the average joe. However I'm curious to know what the rent on that 5.44 Gbps is for 24 hours, probably more. Also Imagine if you had to set up such a transfer, the kind of machines you would need and their price. I'll go with FedEX for my data Transmission. Olivier
I'm sorry but your solution might not be as easy as that.
When Microsoft and other companies massively fighting against piracy start charging MORE for versions of their products that run on DRM-free CPU's consumers will go for it.
Consumers always go for the short/medium term solution.
Sure you will (as a geek) decide to pay that extra 50$ for windows on DRM-Free processors.
Can't see Dell, HP or others going this way, this translates into millions for them.
FYI, I am strictly against such type of DRM. This means that files you would create could potentially hold your unique identifier, which I trully dislike.
My mere contribution anyway