Nice in theory. I know this was a 'devil's advocate' view, but in reality it seems like we really haven't seen a drop in product prices as the companies have just been padding their CEO's pockets with the difference. Of course this does allow him to buy his 15th vacation home.
Give them a stack of RFC's and tell them they can freely access the internet using any software they write themselves. Oh, and that it must be GPL'd too. Can't start them too early.
I remember getting a game or 2 back in the 80's on my C64 that had dongles. The one that comes to mind was Leaderboard Golf. The dongle was just a plastic cap molded to fit over one of the expansion ports and simply had a resister mounted on it, running between 2 pads. I'd guess (now) that it simply ran from Vcc to a data pin and detected the voltage being present.
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Nice in theory. I know this was a 'devil's advocate' view, but in reality it seems like we really haven't seen a drop in product prices as the companies have just been padding their CEO's pockets with the difference. Of course this does allow him to buy his 15th vacation home.
Thank you. =D
And of course that is a great reason to throw money at him. Since he's only raised 1/4 Billion dollars so far, he might run out. http://www.opensecrets.org/presidential/summary.as p?ID=N00008072
I wish I could mod you up 1 more point. This is one of the more Insightful posts I've read on Slashdot in a while.
Don't forget the Trademark(®) too...
Not that I know squat about baseball, but I think it's a batters hit percentage.
From my experience, this has been mostly an issue at the mid to larger corps, not the smaller startup sized shops.
Except at least 99.9% of them arn't doing this "so that they have a better life". That never enters into _their_ equation.
Actually, many of the last gen cards from both ATI and NVidia can support 2 - 3 heads. You can find them fairly inexpensive if you look around a bit.
Give them a stack of RFC's and tell them they can freely access the internet using any software they write themselves. Oh, and that it must be GPL'd too. Can't start them too early.
I remember getting a game or 2 back in the 80's on my C64 that had dongles. The one that comes to mind was Leaderboard Golf. The dongle was just a plastic cap molded to fit over one of the expansion ports and simply had a resister mounted on it, running between 2 pads. I'd guess (now) that it simply ran from Vcc to a data pin and detected the voltage being present.