What is clear is that even when AMD had the superior product, it didn't gain massive market share. So same shit different day. At the end all the oems flock to the company that can mass manufacture.
What it seems is that the OEMs will go with the company who can mass spin. "Yonah performance is comparable to AMD Athlon 64 X2, and is more efficient than the AMD chip in terms of power consumption.". Yeah right, please. Yonah is a 32 bit chip. There is no way in hell it can approach the performance of a 64 bit chip. It's just not going to happen in this universe or the next, not until you get to one where mathematics runs backwards.
what happens is you get an IM message with a link. if you click it, it's your fault when it downloads.
When it downloads it is still just nothing but a file on your disk. If you accidentally click it you have a chance not to run it. Second luck, if you like.
If you then open that file and become infected, it is your own fault.
It is like being warned two times not to put your tongue on a 110v wire chasss. If you still do it you have nobody else to blame.
As they say, take the warnings off everything and let nature sort out the idiots.
My work does the occasional freebie for local community projects, we do discounts for charities and the like. Being in business does not imply being an arse.
Community projects and charities are public known works. That's marketing and goodwill. goodwill increases business and increased business is profit.
You wouldn't find your work doing anything 'charitable' if it were private and nobody knew about it.
> Red Hat has a hard-charging, take-no-prisoners approach to the > market. If you're not making them money, you're not going to get their ear
Like every other company out there that is a for-profit. try getting freebies from anyone else or get them to do work for you that isnt going to earn them money. by by see the door.
> With the New Game Enhancements, he is no longer able to play because > of the reliance on keyboard/mouse combinations and the action-style combat."
It's a good thing to make a change to something that makes it explicitly more accessible to the disabled but if that change also makes it worse to play for the able bodied then that is reverse descrimination. That to me is political correctness at its worse. What about the able bodied majority who find it easier when they are able to use more keys. should we all go around and change every gui so it can be used with a one button mouse and three keys on the keyboard? no! we should make it accessible to all
Not pander to a minority that might be some hundreds of people among millions of players. The producers arent in this for free.
I don't know, I think before any of that you could like put resources towards feeding people and providing them with fresh drinking water. Some of the basics to survive before giving some kid out in the middle of the kalahari a laptop and saying "go pedal. information is free"
bastardizing plurals just because it sounds cute gets tired after you're 14 years old. calling sheep "sheeps", calling you "youse" or calling lego "legos" is a teenybopper creation that just makes people look like morons after they should have grown up.
If you want to stay in the mid teens and call them "legos" then go for it. It just reveals to the world a lack of common sense & maturity.
It would take you months to do that in assembler, and half a day to do it in C. Then the C code would end up faster because compiler optimizations are faster than anything a person could hope to do, and it would be portable too.
And the assembler code breaks when CPU upgrades happen.
But the reason I don't buy music there is that if I am spending that much cash, I want to own something more concrete. What if my computer is lost, or the data corrupted? With a CD I can always re-rip, but with just the MP3 file it would be gone forever...
huh? what if your CD is lost, or the surface scratched. exactly the same thing, you don't get it back. it's gone. it's lost forever.
Either the iTMS download or a ripped MP3 from the CD is copyable, and able to be backed up an infinite amount of times on any media you want, and spread across your house, your parents, your cousins, your workplace. like any digital media it can be backed up & restored with no loss.
What a bullshit argument. both downloadable files or CDs can be lost. The file however can be restored immediately from backups, over and over again and it stays shiny and new exactly as you bought it.
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If you're not one of the typical flu victims (elderly, very young or compromised immune system from other causes), you'll have an excellent chance to shrug it off, even if it does spread.
Same thing said by all the other ignorant people who are blissfully unaware that the immune system reacts so hard and fast it causes extreme rates of inflammation in the lungs, and you die.
The better your immune system, the harder that response and inflammation.
The elderly, young and those with compromised immune systems are going to be better off than you.
> It means looking after your fellow man, particularly those who have nothing.
And the main reason people have nothing is because they have lost it or proven themselves incapable of acquiring it through actions of their own. You get what you deserve and all in a world where it's possible for an immigrant to this country to become one of its richest men.
Why should I be helping people who refuse to help themselves? That's just going to promote laziness and dependence on me.
I wonder if I'm alone in just wishing that consoles looked like stereo components and fit in my rack without scary balancing acts and lopsided aesthetics. A Gamecube, PS2, and X-Box can not be stacked nicely.
I wish my stereo components looked more like the consoles;. imagine a dvd burner looking like a ps3. that would be awesome.
And your blood has a slightly basic PH, not like making it SLIGHTLY acidic is going to make a difference, it can't hurt.
go on, make your blood drop below PH7. then go into a coma & die then tell us again slightly acidic doesn't mean anything to the billions & billions of individuals living in the oceans.
Why they felt the need to do so is beyond me. Obviously Rambus had something worthwhile to offer, which they found easiest to combat via illegal business practices.
It wasn't a rambus product that was being combated it was rambuses abuse of patents to extort huge high prices from actual manufacturers of RAM (rambus only own IP, they do not produce anything) for the privilege of producing RAM to a standard that many manufacturers got together to design, but rambus patented and tried to force their patents into the standard.
it would be like if a company came up today and said "oh we don't produce any products but I see we have a patent over DDR-SDRAM so all you ram manufacturers must pay us money". they would be laughed off slashdot. rambus is that company they just happened to get caught. they must be destroyed because they attempt to gain money without producing anything.
This article just scratches the surface of a story that is reminiscent of "Tucker" and how Pan Am (airlines) went after TWA. There are incredible connections between SCO's adversaries, US Congressmen, the FTC and a whole cadre of politicans, judges, government officials and law firms working in concert against SCO. It's the story of a $30 billion dollar industry of multi-billion dollar, multi-national corporations out to steal the assets of and destroy a tiny 200-person company. SCO's legal bills fighting this mess have been a quarter-billion dollars, far more than their total annual revenue. SCO has managed to fight this battle while prospering and remaining profitable the entire time, but it's a sad tale of corruption and power politics at their very worst.
well rambus wanted such high amounts to license its technology that it was effectively using patenting to work against ram manufacturers to ensure they paid rambus lots of money as opposed to all the ram manufacturers getting together to make sure rambus and their expensive (to the ram producing companies) licenses for their dr-dram would fail.
to me the first situation is abuse of the patent system to pull cash out of everybody and the latter is just a democracy decision by many ram manufacturers to ensure rambus didn't succeed in the greedy cash grab.
> In Microsoft's case, it's because they're the most successful computer > company in the world, bar none. That they're on pretty much every > desktop (or at least 90% or so of them), and that what they do, matters
I must admit I know only two microsoft employees but both have the attitude that what they do doesn't matter. they're microsoft so they'll succeed anyway and there's not a worry in the world about competition.
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Imagine when a toddler does the same thing to a *real* baby.
Bad parenting and nothing else. If parents can't instil good values and commonsense behaviour into their children then they shouldn't be parents imho.
What is clear is that even when AMD had the superior product, it didn't gain massive market share. So same shit different day. At the end all the oems flock to the company that can mass manufacture.
What it seems is that the OEMs will go with the company who can mass spin. "Yonah performance is comparable to AMD Athlon 64 X2, and is more efficient than the AMD chip in terms of power consumption.". Yeah right, please. Yonah is a 32 bit chip. There is no way in hell it can approach the performance of a 64 bit chip. It's just not going to happen in this universe or the next, not until you get to one where mathematics runs backwards.
Anyone who catches this is at fault.
what happens is you get an IM message with a link. if you click it, it's your fault when it downloads.
When it downloads it is still just nothing but a file on your disk. If you accidentally click it you have a chance not to run it. Second luck, if you like.
If you then open that file and become infected, it is your own fault.
It is like being warned two times not to put your tongue on a 110v wire chasss. If you still do it you have nobody else to blame.
As they say, take the warnings off everything and let nature sort out the idiots.
USA only gets control over USA, and you always have a choice where to live.
My work does the occasional freebie for local community projects, we do discounts for charities and the like. Being in business does not imply being an arse.
Community projects and charities are public known works. That's marketing and goodwill. goodwill increases business and increased business is profit.
You wouldn't find your work doing anything 'charitable' if it were private and nobody knew about it.
All profit in the end.
> Red Hat has a hard-charging, take-no-prisoners approach to the
> market. If you're not making them money, you're not going to get their ear
Like every other company out there that is a for-profit. try getting freebies from anyone else or get them to do work for you that isnt going to earn them money. by by see the door.
> With the New Game Enhancements, he is no longer able to play because
> of the reliance on keyboard/mouse combinations and the action-style combat."
It's a good thing to make a change to something that makes it explicitly more accessible to the disabled but if that change also makes it worse to play for the able bodied then that is reverse descrimination. That to me is political correctness at its worse. What about the able bodied majority who find it easier when they are able to use more keys. should we all go around and change every gui so it can be used with a one button mouse and three keys on the keyboard? no! we should make it accessible to all
Not pander to a minority that might be some hundreds of people among millions of players. The producers arent in this for free.
I don't know, I think before any of that you could like put resources towards feeding people and providing them with fresh drinking water. Some of the basics to survive before giving some kid out in the middle of the kalahari a laptop and saying "go pedal. information is free"
what exactly the 'next generation' of consoles are about.
They're about making apple embarassed to have dumped bridges with IBM. triple core 3.2GHz G5... take that!
> I think that's "...precede police into areas..."
Wrong.
bastardizing plurals just because it sounds cute gets tired after you're 14 years old. calling sheep "sheeps", calling you "youse" or calling lego "legos" is a teenybopper creation that just makes people look like morons after they should have grown up.
If you want to stay in the mid teens and call them "legos" then go for it. It just reveals to the world a lack of common sense & maturity.
It would take you months to do that in assembler, and half a day to do it in C. Then the C code would end up faster because compiler optimizations are faster than anything a person could hope to do, and it would be portable too.
And the assembler code breaks when CPU upgrades happen.
But the reason I don't buy music there is that if I am spending that much cash, I want to own something more concrete. What if my computer is lost, or the data corrupted? With a CD I can always re-rip, but with just the MP3 file it would be gone forever...
huh? what if your CD is lost, or the surface scratched. exactly the same thing, you don't get it back. it's gone. it's lost forever.
Either the iTMS download or a ripped MP3 from the CD is copyable, and able to be backed up an infinite amount of times on any media you want, and spread across your house, your parents, your cousins, your workplace. like any digital media it can be backed up & restored with no loss.
What a bullshit argument. both downloadable files or CDs can be lost. The file however can be restored immediately from backups, over and over again and it stays shiny and new exactly as you bought it.
If you're not one of the typical flu victims (elderly, very young or compromised immune system from other causes), you'll have an excellent chance to shrug it off, even if it does spread. Same thing said by all the other ignorant people who are blissfully unaware that the immune system reacts so hard and fast it causes extreme rates of inflammation in the lungs, and you die. The better your immune system, the harder that response and inflammation. The elderly, young and those with compromised immune systems are going to be better off than you.
> They're erasing the line between civil and criminal law. Where the hell does this end?
they're not only erasing it, they're walking up to the line, jumping up and down on it and rubbing it on the dirt and they're keeping on walking.
if you download a single track off a cd you can go to jail for ip infringement
if you steal a cd from a store you get a warning and you're out free.
moral of the story? if you want a track from a cd go steal it from a store.
go figger.
laying fiber is 10x more expensive than copper.
But fiber carries hundreds to thousands more channels of data than copper.
that's why it's cheaper.
> It means looking after your fellow man, particularly those who have nothing.
And the main reason people have nothing is because they have lost it or proven themselves incapable of acquiring it through actions of their own. You get what you deserve and all in a world where it's possible for an immigrant to this country to become one of its richest men.
Why should I be helping people who refuse to help themselves? That's just going to promote laziness and dependence on me.
I wonder if I'm alone in just wishing that consoles looked like stereo components and fit in my rack without scary balancing acts and lopsided aesthetics. A Gamecube, PS2, and X-Box can not be stacked nicely.
I wish my stereo components looked more like the consoles;. imagine a dvd burner looking like a ps3. that would be awesome.
And your blood has a slightly basic PH, not like making it SLIGHTLY acidic is going to make a difference, it can't hurt.
go on, make your blood drop below PH7. then go into a coma & die then tell us again slightly acidic doesn't mean anything to the billions & billions of individuals living in the oceans.
Any good christian science podcasts?
Most look to present science only from a secular-ethics POV.
Why they felt the need to do so is beyond me. Obviously Rambus had something worthwhile to offer, which they found easiest to combat via illegal business practices.
It wasn't a rambus product that was being combated it was rambuses abuse of patents to extort huge high prices from actual manufacturers of RAM (rambus only own IP, they do not produce anything) for the privilege of producing RAM to a standard that many manufacturers got together to design, but rambus patented and tried to force their patents into the standard.
it would be like if a company came up today and said "oh we don't produce any products but I see we have a patent over DDR-SDRAM so all you ram manufacturers must pay us money". they would be laughed off slashdot. rambus is that company they just happened to get caught. they must be destroyed because they attempt to gain money without producing anything.
This article just scratches the surface of a story that is reminiscent of "Tucker" and how Pan Am (airlines) went after TWA. There are incredible connections between SCO's adversaries, US Congressmen, the FTC and a whole cadre of politicans, judges, government officials and law firms working in concert against SCO. It's the story of a $30 billion dollar industry of multi-billion dollar, multi-national corporations out to steal the assets of and destroy a tiny 200-person company. SCO's legal bills fighting this mess have been a quarter-billion dollars, far more than their total annual revenue. SCO has managed to fight this battle while prospering and remaining profitable the entire time, but it's a sad tale of corruption and power politics at their very worst.
well rambus wanted such high amounts to license its technology that it was effectively using patenting to work against ram manufacturers to ensure they paid rambus lots of money as opposed to all the ram manufacturers getting together to make sure rambus and their expensive (to the ram producing companies) licenses for their dr-dram would fail.
to me the first situation is abuse of the patent system to pull cash out of everybody and the latter is just a democracy decision by many ram manufacturers to ensure rambus didn't succeed in the greedy cash grab.
I'll take democracy thanks
> In Microsoft's case, it's because they're the most successful computer
> company in the world, bar none. That they're on pretty much every
> desktop (or at least 90% or so of them), and that what they do, matters
I must admit I know only two microsoft employees but both have the attitude that what they do doesn't matter. they're microsoft so they'll succeed anyway and there's not a worry in the world about competition.
Mayhap that their undoing
> MSFT's unreleased os has nearly the same market share as linux?
> We've got a long way to go.
I wouldn't say so. Most linux people use a browser string to look like windows so sites wont reject them.
Linux market share is about double Mac so its probably about 8 or 9 % so some of that Windows stat is actually Linux.
Not a fair comparison