Well as I said above, it is generally counterintuitive (at least to some people) for it to BE ALLOWED for the rich to get richer and the poor to get bought up by the rich. This isn't very fair, it discourages competition. And it hurts our countries economy... Which is why it makes it counterintuitive for this to be allowed, as it causes several bad things. Even if it is only with small companies it is still bad because it sets a precedent for a big company merging with a smaller once, which could be used in the future to the big company's advantage as there is precedent. That's my train of thought, just trying to clarify.
I'm going to have to agree with this... If you want the latest technology and awesome things you should go with Alienware, but you better be prepared to pay for it... as it doesn't come cheap. But with some of today's really good systems, you can get really good FPS on almost any game, for significantly less money than an Alienware. Which causes one to wonder... how much is too much...
There are already a good deal of VI based editors... Not to bash on their project or anything, it still seems interesting, and it's not a bad idea. But perhaps they would be better off just taking something such as vim or some other similar editor and modifying it... Or even making something a bit new. Most people will still stick with editors like open-office, because of they way they work, and making another VI editor that doesn't really break the mold wont change this. Just my two cents.
I agree with this, if you don't grant patents to any random thing, then they will actually have to give patents for (hopefully) more valid products, and keep people from patenting things that should not be patented... but they are at an incentive to not do this...
yeah.. one would certainly hope that a monopoly wouldn't be allowed to expand horizontally and or vertically by merging with another company, I mean M$ already has a huge market share in many fields and huge revenues... they don't need to get more in my honest opinion
I wouldn't expect Java to make something like this, but hey, it's definitely not a bad idea. I've dealed with java a lot in this past year, learned a good deal about it... Although it is not as fast as C / C++ it is a good deal easier to learn and use, and you can do some things easily with it. And this new developement will make it a better tool, in my opinion.
This is definitely a promising idea, but it would get really complicated, I for one at home only have about 30kilobytes a second upload, which is barely enough to radio one song to one person, and would also severely lag me. This kind of thing would probably end up having the people with larger connections all serving the people with smaller pipes, and the people with smaller pipes not giving back (mostly because it is hard). And also, the media industries will probably jump on the legality of this because they don't like these kind of things... because noone will actually serve only music that they legally own, they will also serve music that they downloaded from kazaa and other variations, because not that many people use itunes compared to the people who get songs illegally.
although everyone loves a free thing, free things usually have some drawbacks, most wireless access points that you can just use for free tend to be slower, less secure, less reliable, and crowded with hordes of people who all think that they can get free internet, and they all use up the slow 11mbs line (as most free wireless access points use b as opposed to g because it is way more cheap), right now it is very popular, but people will start figuring out that to pay a little bit is a good alternative, and the businesses won't do too bad
yeah it is truly amazing how much the tech demos have been progressing in the past few years, I just recently watched an NVidia demo that was just a few months old and compared to the new one for the 6800 series it looked awful, you could see a big difference, we're definitely progressing *remembers seeing an article about how some gpus have more transistors than a decent processor*
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Well as I said above, it is generally counterintuitive (at least to some people) for it to BE ALLOWED for the rich to get richer and the poor to get bought up by the rich. This isn't very fair, it discourages competition. And it hurts our countries economy... Which is why it makes it counterintuitive for this to be allowed, as it causes several bad things. Even if it is only with small companies it is still bad because it sets a precedent for a big company merging with a smaller once, which could be used in the future to the big company's advantage as there is precedent. That's my train of thought, just trying to clarify.
I'm going to have to agree with this... If you want the latest technology and awesome things you should go with Alienware, but you better be prepared to pay for it... as it doesn't come cheap. But with some of today's really good systems, you can get really good FPS on almost any game, for significantly less money than an Alienware. Which causes one to wonder... how much is too much...
There are already a good deal of VI based editors... Not to bash on their project or anything, it still seems interesting, and it's not a bad idea. But perhaps they would be better off just taking something such as vim or some other similar editor and modifying it... Or even making something a bit new. Most people will still stick with editors like open-office, because of they way they work, and making another VI editor that doesn't really break the mold wont change this. Just my two cents.
I agree with this, if you don't grant patents to any random thing, then they will actually have to give patents for (hopefully) more valid products, and keep people from patenting things that should not be patented... but they are at an incentive to not do this...
yeah.. one would certainly hope that a monopoly wouldn't be allowed to expand horizontally and or vertically by merging with another company, I mean M$ already has a huge market share in many fields and huge revenues... they don't need to get more in my honest opinion
I wouldn't expect Java to make something like this, but hey, it's definitely not a bad idea. I've dealed with java a lot in this past year, learned a good deal about it... Although it is not as fast as C / C++ it is a good deal easier to learn and use, and you can do some things easily with it. And this new developement will make it a better tool, in my opinion.
This is definitely a promising idea, but it would get really complicated, I for one at home only have about 30kilobytes a second upload, which is barely enough to radio one song to one person, and would also severely lag me. This kind of thing would probably end up having the people with larger connections all serving the people with smaller pipes, and the people with smaller pipes not giving back (mostly because it is hard). And also, the media industries will probably jump on the legality of this because they don't like these kind of things... because noone will actually serve only music that they legally own, they will also serve music that they downloaded from kazaa and other variations, because not that many people use itunes compared to the people who get songs illegally.
although everyone loves a free thing, free things usually have some drawbacks, most wireless access points that you can just use for free tend to be slower, less secure, less reliable, and crowded with hordes of people who all think that they can get free internet, and they all use up the slow 11mbs line (as most free wireless access points use b as opposed to g because it is way more cheap), right now it is very popular, but people will start figuring out that to pay a little bit is a good alternative, and the businesses won't do too bad
yeah it is truly amazing how much the tech demos have been progressing in the past few years, I just recently watched an NVidia demo that was just a few months old and compared to the new one for the 6800 series it looked awful, you could see a big difference, we're definitely progressing *remembers seeing an article about how some gpus have more transistors than a decent processor*