How many times can we post about the same stinkin RFC?! Third time's a charm?.. and a hat-trick! Yay! Two story posts were even about the same feature I think. What's extra cool is they're all from CmdrTaco.
Methinks there's a RoboTaco who's taken over lately?
The complaint isn't the patent for patent's sake here. Seems to me the complaint is about the fact that they've even done it at all, patent or no patent.
Lots of slashdotters are also system builders and overclockers. So I can see why this might be of interest. The fact that it's patented is sort of secondary to the whole thing (at least in MY mind.)
On the one hand I can understand why Intel would want to do such a thing. They get to overclock their silicon and you don't. Thereby keeping more of the profit in the overclocking business in their hands and not yours.
On the other hand it's another example of shooting yourself in the foot by alienating part of your potential buyer base. I suppose the OC subculture might be small enough that they can make it up on server sales. But then again, it must be big enough that they feel threatened enough to take such measures.
Oh well, time will tell if this is a good thing(tm) or a bad thing(tm). Intel will probably lose any OC marketshare they used to have as the tweakers amongst us (x86ers enywayz) hop on over to AMD.
Either my ISP (charter cable) is doing an awesome job of spam elimination, or I'm wise enough to keep a hotmail spam account which I NEVER read (except to confirm web accounts) I actually have three email accounts in general. I have one I give out to almost nobody, it's used mostly by friends and family. A second that's used by sites I trust, any email sent there is strictly opt-in and I've been lucky (or choosy) with who I give that email to. Then I keep a hotmail account which I'll give to just about anybody. d1663m@hotmail.com as a matter of fact..:) Hoo boy I can see the spam influx now! Otherwise I hardly ever see any true spam.
However at work I was unfortunate enough to be mail-list-logged to a website which didn't protect my work email. So now I get SOME spam at work, but it's still not near 40%, unless you count vendor email.:P Some of our vendors are downright spammy..
Makes perfectly good sense if you think about it. The "thicker/heavier" sounding stuff has more going on, therefore more randomness. Compression theory tells us that a truely random sequence can't be compressed even by one bit without losing something. The more random the music the more truely random portions there will be. The fuzzed screaming or heavily fuzzed guitars would be pretty close to truely random data and therefore is less compressible.
I think between 2-3 years of age. I can't imagine being scared or crying over this at an older age. And I can't remember using words or knowing how to talk, only crying. I've never described this memory except to my brother just recently. And I doubt my parents would remembed such an inane thing and tell me about it.
Basically, pop got a new black recliner. The big box was sitting in the kitchen floor. I was sitting on the kitchen table up out of the way. They carried off the recliner and set it up in the living room. I didn't like being left high up on the table all alone and so I got worried and started to cry. My dad came walking back in rather upset and carried me in and set me down in the room near where they were working.
I also have some memories of my brother and his older friends playing "fuel station fill up" or something like that. I was VERY young, but I remember they took me into the basement where they had built a fort with blankets or sheets or something. I've never described this memory to ANYONE but it's hazy on some details but I remember parts of it rather clearly.. again I think I was in the 2-3 year range... I'll leave it up to your imagination who were the fuel station "pumps" and who was getting "filled up" bleh... sickos. But I was too young to know any better, they were older, bigger, I did what I was told.
I don't know what the extremely minor/easy change would be. Sounds to me it would be easy enough to defeat too. For example if it was a series of welds in the body somewhere? Just guessing I guess.. that would be easy enough to CHANGE.:)
Probably not as worth worrying about right this minute as you think, but something to be aware of for sure.
Probably the biggest win out of space exploration is good old basic research. Not enough people find basic research to be profitable IN THE NEAR TERM. Meaning within the next 3-4 years.
This is probably one of the biggest problems with America lately (putting on the asbestos undies) is the incessant need for instant gratification. If you can't see the up side right away then it just isn't worth doing.
Where would we be today if our parents and grandparents had thought like that? Plenty of the things we take for granted today came out of basic research. Meaning they weren't necessarily in it for the profit, they were just trying to figure out how stuff works. Hmm.. telephone? Television? Transistor? Anybody?
Of course, if you have cheap labor and a lot of will, that certainly helps.:)
...the vast majority of accounts 'owned' by Yahoo are dormant. So many of them did nothing because many of them never do anything. They say there are about 100 million internet users in the US, but I doubt every single one of them has a yahoo account. But I WOULD lay odds that several of the ones that do have an account, have more than one.
Go to your local hyper-mart, collect all the CD's you can with warnings about not being able to play in a computer, slap them on the counter and announce loudly that you WON'T be purchasing these CD's because they are complete CRAP.
If you feel so inclined you might even explain that by stating that your normaly stereo CD player won't play the CD's without it sounding like complete crud etc etc.
I just think the act of bringing up all those CD's and SHOWING them what you (and probably soon to be many many other people) are NOT going to buy because they have a stupid 'protection' scheme on them that makes them just above worthless... (I mean they still CAN be used as a coaster.)
maybe [t]hey don't need an internal change, but an external one;
But really they've already made an internal change. By embracing Linux and opensource. 2-3 years ago I had heard rumors of IBM revamping AIX to be more like Linux. Whether that's actually happened I don't know, but I see plenty of evidence which says they've certainly embraced Linux itself, as well as opensource. They've pushed the 'stick all your linux on our mainframe' for a while. I can only imagine the internal changes that took place to go from closed and proprietary to open. You won't see MS doing that any time soon.
I don't have any examples but for the past 4-5 years AOL has been over-inflated in worth. I remember reading or hearing about this very thing. People were talking about AOL and saying that one should avoid it as a stock because it was overvalued. People who were looking at the company couldn't figure out how the stayed in the black with all the spending they've done. Frankly I think the board ought to be personally responsible for 50% of that write-off. If all boards were held responsible for such things, they'd think twice about messing with the books.. especially THAT much.
My dad had the same problem. I don't though. He always attributed it to his 'magnetic' personality. That was a joke to him, but I don't think he was completely wrong. Some people have stronger electrical or magnetic fields than others. Could be you need to shield the watch from yourself.
Of course I could just be talking out my arse. But it DOES sound plausable, doesn't it?:) Doing a quick search on google does seem to back me up though, so mebbe my memory isn't so bad after all and I didn't just make it up.:D
It's all about the price we're expected to pay. If I can spend 50 cents and get the same recording as I would if I spent $18, why the hell WOULDN'T I? Setting morality issues aside temporarily; I don't care who you are, you can't tell me that you wouldn't go for the cheaper item if you knew they were practically identical. Seems to me that pretty much anybodies morals can be bent for a price. The difference in price between 50 cents and 18 bux (36 times(!) as much), means that most people are willing to tell that angel dude on their shoulder to shut up.
Now if, say, the new Britney Spears album came out and it was 5 dollars. Now it's only 10 times as much, the morals start to kick in a little bit harder now. More people might be willing to shell out for the music rather than copy it. A) They could have the warm fuzzy feeling knowing they helped their favorite artists' cocaine habbit. B) They don't have to feel like a guilty thieving pirate.:)
Another thing, probably quite a few kiddies have a fiver burning a hole in their pocket at least once during the week. They'd likely buy an album even if they only liked one song, rather than hesitate and download the one song they liked and save their $18...
Does this make any sense? RIAA, your product is overpriced for the current market conditions. Lower your prices to something resonable and you'll likely realize quite a bit more sales and profit.
My provider offers Tiered pricing, but it isn't for how much you send but how much bandwidth you get. I got in before they set up the other two tiers. Mines smack in the middle but I am happy with it. To me the problem isn't the hogs, just charge them at the top tier or drop their bandwidth. The company should damned well have enough use experience to know what the AVERAGE usage is and be able to set prices accordingly. This is just another money grab from big companies probably trying to recoup the costs of their last dot.bomb buyout.
Sure it can do 3D, but only in two planes. It's true and real 3D but so limited, what's the use? It's not 'infinite' planes as could be done with high resolution, high color, antialiased STEREO images and those 'annoying' glasses.
Now, I will say that the 'stacking' of related app data is kinda cool, but you really could get that from a single monitor. If you've seen WinXP in action, the mouse pointer creates a shadow over the desktop. Looks 3Dish. True it isn't in two planes, but who cares?
Sorry, but I'll keep my $6000 bux and buy a sweet rig and some glasses for true stereoscopic vision first. I wear glasses normally so wearing a different pair doesn't bother me at all.
Okay, besides generally pissing people off, wouldn't this seriously increase their own space usage? I mean if now every account is getting spammed by every 'marketing partner'.... Hrm, or do they do something smart and have a single copy and only show it to those who have a preference for that particular marketer? Okay, now I don't know.:) Oh well it's still stupid.
You bet your arse! I found my wife on it roundabouts '91 whilst visiting the occasional Muck. I was using Archie to find progies for my Atari 520ST. Using Gopher to do general information searching and just plain goof off. Mud/Muck/Moo/Mush, where I learned to program based on a stack. (later helped me w/my HP48 calculator)
The internet WAS useful and is getting more-so all the time.
It's rather depressing actually, to think that so many people, including prominant politicians, could believe that Canada works on a 20 hour clock, or that we're going to change the country's name to Chicago.
And raise your hand if you ever saw Jay Leno do his 'man on the street' skits? Not all of us are as daft as the media would have you think. Granted there are plenty of luddites among us, but how much footage DONT you see in that 22 minute special? My guess is they went for the dopes just like Jay does. It's more entertaining and you're more likely to watch to see just how silly some people are. (Unfortunately, that can include politicians who don't have to be smart, just charismatic.)
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How many times can we post about the same stinkin RFC?! Third time's a charm? .. and a hat-trick! Yay! Two story posts were even about the same feature I think. What's extra cool is they're all from CmdrTaco.
Methinks there's a RoboTaco who's taken over lately?
The complaint isn't the patent for patent's sake here. Seems to me the complaint is about the fact that they've even done it at all, patent or no patent.
Lots of slashdotters are also system builders and overclockers. So I can see why this might be of interest. The fact that it's patented is sort of secondary to the whole thing (at least in MY mind.)
On the one hand I can understand why Intel would want to do such a thing. They get to overclock their silicon and you don't. Thereby keeping more of the profit in the overclocking business in their hands and not yours.
On the other hand it's another example of shooting yourself in the foot by alienating part of your potential buyer base. I suppose the OC subculture might be small enough that they can make it up on server sales. But then again, it must be big enough that they feel threatened enough to take such measures.
Oh well, time will tell if this is a good thing(tm) or a bad thing(tm). Intel will probably lose any OC marketshare they used to have as the tweakers amongst us (x86ers enywayz) hop on over to AMD.
"Take two aspirin and try again in the morning."
Either my ISP (charter cable) is doing an awesome job of spam elimination, or I'm wise enough to keep a hotmail spam account which I NEVER read (except to confirm web accounts) I actually have three email accounts in general. I have one I give out to almost nobody, it's used mostly by friends and family. A second that's used by sites I trust, any email sent there is strictly opt-in and I've been lucky (or choosy) with who I give that email to. Then I keep a hotmail account which I'll give to just about anybody. d1663m@hotmail.com as a matter of fact.. :) Hoo boy I can see the spam influx now! Otherwise I hardly ever see any true spam.
:P Some of our vendors are downright spammy..
However at work I was unfortunate enough to be mail-list-logged to a website which didn't protect my work email. So now I get SOME spam at work, but it's still not near 40%, unless you count vendor email.
Makes perfectly good sense if you think about it. The "thicker/heavier" sounding stuff has more going on, therefore more randomness. Compression theory tells us that a truely random sequence can't be compressed even by one bit without losing something. The more random the music the more truely random portions there will be. The fuzzed screaming or heavily fuzzed guitars would be pretty close to truely random data and therefore is less compressible.
I think between 2-3 years of age. I can't imagine being scared or crying over this at an older age. And I can't remember using words or knowing how to talk, only crying. I've never described this memory except to my brother just recently. And I doubt my parents would remembed such an inane thing and tell me about it.
Basically, pop got a new black recliner. The big box was sitting in the kitchen floor. I was sitting on the kitchen table up out of the way. They carried off the recliner and set it up in the living room. I didn't like being left high up on the table all alone and so I got worried and started to cry. My dad came walking back in rather upset and carried me in and set me down in the room near where they were working.
I also have some memories of my brother and his older friends playing "fuel station fill up" or something like that. I was VERY young, but I remember they took me into the basement where they had built a fort with blankets or sheets or something. I've never described this memory to ANYONE but it's hazy on some details but I remember parts of it rather clearly.. again I think I was in the 2-3 year range... I'll leave it up to your imagination who were the fuel station "pumps" and who was getting "filled up" bleh... sickos. But I was too young to know any better, they were older, bigger, I did what I was told.
I don't know what the extremely minor/easy change would be. Sounds to me it would be easy enough to defeat too. For example if it was a series of welds in the body somewhere? Just guessing I guess.. that would be easy enough to CHANGE. :)
Probably not as worth worrying about right this minute as you think, but something to be aware of for sure.
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Hot Grits anyone!?
*ducking*
Yah, just learn to play ice hockey and say 'Eh?' and you're all set, eh?
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Probably the biggest win out of space exploration is good old basic research. Not enough people find basic research to be profitable IN THE NEAR TERM. Meaning within the next 3-4 years.
:)
This is probably one of the biggest problems with America lately (putting on the asbestos undies) is the incessant need for instant gratification. If you can't see the up side right away then it just isn't worth doing.
Where would we be today if our parents and grandparents had thought like that? Plenty of the things we take for granted today came out of basic research. Meaning they weren't necessarily in it for the profit, they were just trying to figure out how stuff works. Hmm.. telephone? Television? Transistor? Anybody?
Of course, if you have cheap labor and a lot of will, that certainly helps.
...the vast majority of accounts 'owned' by Yahoo are dormant. So many of them did nothing because many of them never do anything. They say there are about 100 million internet users in the US, but I doubt every single one of them has a yahoo account. But I WOULD lay odds that several of the ones that do have an account, have more than one.
Go to your local hyper-mart, collect all the CD's you can with warnings about not being able to play in a computer, slap them on the counter and announce loudly that you WON'T be purchasing these CD's because they are complete CRAP.
If you feel so inclined you might even explain that by stating that your normaly stereo CD player won't play the CD's without it sounding like complete crud etc etc.
I just think the act of bringing up all those CD's and SHOWING them what you (and probably soon to be many many other people) are NOT going to buy because they have a stupid 'protection' scheme on them that makes them just above worthless... (I mean they still CAN be used as a coaster.)
maybe [t]hey don't need an internal change, but an external one;
But really they've already made an internal change. By embracing Linux and opensource. 2-3 years ago I had heard rumors of IBM revamping AIX to be more like Linux. Whether that's actually happened I don't know, but I see plenty of evidence which says they've certainly embraced Linux itself, as well as opensource. They've pushed the 'stick all your linux on our mainframe' for a while. I can only imagine the internal changes that took place to go from closed and proprietary to open. You won't see MS doing that any time soon.
I don't have any examples but for the past 4-5 years AOL has been over-inflated in worth. I remember reading or hearing about this very thing. People were talking about AOL and saying that one should avoid it as a stock because it was overvalued. People who were looking at the company couldn't figure out how the stayed in the black with all the spending they've done. Frankly I think the board ought to be personally responsible for 50% of that write-off. If all boards were held responsible for such things, they'd think twice about messing with the books.. especially THAT much.
My dad had the same problem. I don't though. He always attributed it to his 'magnetic' personality. That was a joke to him, but I don't think he was completely wrong. Some people have stronger electrical or magnetic fields than others. Could be you need to shield the watch from yourself.
:) Doing a quick search on google does seem to back me up though, so mebbe my memory isn't so bad after all and I didn't just make it up. :D
Of course I could just be talking out my arse. But it DOES sound plausable, doesn't it?
It's all about the price we're expected to pay. If I can spend 50 cents and get the same recording as I would if I spent $18, why the hell WOULDN'T I? Setting morality issues aside temporarily; I don't care who you are, you can't tell me that you wouldn't go for the cheaper item if you knew they were practically identical. Seems to me that pretty much anybodies morals can be bent for a price. The difference in price between 50 cents and 18 bux (36 times(!) as much), means that most people are willing to tell that angel dude on their shoulder to shut up.
:)
Now if, say, the new Britney Spears album came out and it was 5 dollars. Now it's only 10 times as much, the morals start to kick in a little bit harder now. More people might be willing to shell out for the music rather than copy it. A) They could have the warm fuzzy feeling knowing they helped their favorite artists' cocaine habbit. B) They don't have to feel like a guilty thieving pirate.
Another thing, probably quite a few kiddies have a fiver burning a hole in their pocket at least once during the week. They'd likely buy an album even if they only liked one song, rather than hesitate and download the one song they liked and save their $18...
Does this make any sense? RIAA, your product is overpriced for the current market conditions. Lower your prices to something resonable and you'll likely realize quite a bit more sales and profit.
My provider offers Tiered pricing, but it isn't for how much you send but how much bandwidth you get. I got in before they set up the other two tiers. Mines smack in the middle but I am happy with it. To me the problem isn't the hogs, just charge them at the top tier or drop their bandwidth. The company should damned well have enough use experience to know what the AVERAGE usage is and be able to set prices accordingly. This is just another money grab from big companies probably trying to recoup the costs of their last dot.bomb buyout.
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "Space STATION" eh? :D
Sure it can do 3D, but only in two planes. It's true and real 3D but so limited, what's the use? It's not 'infinite' planes as could be done with high resolution, high color, antialiased STEREO images and those 'annoying' glasses.
Now, I will say that the 'stacking' of related app data is kinda cool, but you really could get that from a single monitor. If you've seen WinXP in action, the mouse pointer creates a shadow over the desktop. Looks 3Dish. True it isn't in two planes, but who cares?
Sorry, but I'll keep my $6000 bux and buy a sweet rig and some glasses for true stereoscopic vision first. I wear glasses normally so wearing a different pair doesn't bother me at all.
This just SMACKS of april fools day. It's too weird tho, so maybe it is real.
Okay, besides generally pissing people off, wouldn't this seriously increase their own space usage? I mean if now every account is getting spammed by every 'marketing partner'.... Hrm, or do they do something smart and have a single copy and only show it to those who have a preference for that particular marketer? Okay, now I don't know. :) Oh well it's still stupid.
You bet your arse! I found my wife on it roundabouts '91 whilst visiting the occasional Muck. I was using Archie to find progies for my Atari 520ST. Using Gopher to do general information searching and just plain goof off. Mud/Muck/Moo/Mush, where I learned to program based on a stack. (later helped me w/my HP48 calculator)
The internet WAS useful and is getting more-so all the time.
It's rather depressing actually, to think that so many people, including prominant politicians, could believe that Canada works on a 20 hour clock, or that we're going to change the country's name to Chicago.
And raise your hand if you ever saw Jay Leno do his 'man on the street' skits? Not all of us are as daft as the media would have you think. Granted there are plenty of luddites among us, but how much footage DONT you see in that 22 minute special? My guess is they went for the dopes just like Jay does. It's more entertaining and you're more likely to watch to see just how silly some people are. (Unfortunately, that can include politicians who don't have to be smart, just charismatic.)
And *I* thought it said Lasseter to pub.. odd. Mebbe I've been thinkin about drinkin for a wee bit too long. Must be all that 'free as in beer talk'