An interesting implementation would be an entire piece of clothing like a hat entirely woven with this material. One weakness of traditional PV cells is the angle it faces the source (the sun). A perpendicular angle to the source achieves maximum results, being circular allows to capture light at different angles to the source much more efficiently.
I think we should look at the pre and post split prices. They take in a bunch of bit-coins pre-split valued at $X USD. If they have faith that the value really will go up, they have their costs covered for the hardware, plus the amount of the increase at the final sale. Also since the hardware will sponsor the growth of mining its self, more coins will provide for more purchases making the currency that much more valuable. Further they are indeed able to circulate fewer devices than they use themselves using the income from the consumer hardware will allow them to make much larger scale versions of their own. It definitely looks like a good move if bit coins go up in value and at least a leg-up on mining themselves if they invest their time into an industrial scale version.
You may not be taking into account that each company will send at least one posting a day but most of them are just basic updates to keep the company name fresh in their heads. If (in this example) you have 1M followers and you send just one update per day $3000x30 = $90,000/month or $1,095,000 a year just to send one message a day to people who have already shown interest in what ever you happen to be babbling about. So compare this to Twitter where I can send verbal diarrhea all day long for next to nothing and we now have a supply/demand curve. So while overall you're spending roughly $1/follower/year(for only one post/day) when you compare it to twitter you start to see that you can engage your fan base (not necessarily your customer base) in a much more responsive manner. You can try out different tactics and see what fits. If you blab too much people will stop listening (not following) you, if you get it right you will attract more attention and followers.
So as the rhetoric goes the market will work its self out as we see today with Cubans $0.02.
Maybe trying another GPU intensive task (bitcoin mining, OpenCL/CUDA,etc) will trigger what I've found. My Winamp visualization is Milkdrop and the settings are pretty much cranked at 1080p resolution.
As someone who has been using Win8 RC since about August, throwing the whole desktop on the GPU isn't quite as good as I had hoped. My example is as follows. My hardware specs are AMD FX-6100 @ 3.7GHz, Radeon HD 7850, 16GB RAM(1600). When running iTunes/Winamp visualizations on one monitor (windowed or full screen) the GPU usage skyrockets (as per Open Hardware Monitor) and the entire UI on both screens becomes less than a slide show. CPU usage rests at about 10%. Now whenever you run a mildly GPU intensive task in a window your system basically becomes completely unresponsive. My GPU is not the best out there but the majority of systems out there ship with much less, I can't feel a bit less then ambitious that this won't effect most people negatively overall.
As for your claim that it would require a "kernel rewrite" I have to say I'm impressed. Apparently you know the implementation of the system which apparently up to now was believed to be closed source. I am curious how you know how the kernel would have to be "re-written" when according to the version numbers they just went from 6.1 to 6.2.
Ahhh all bullshit. If whomever sees that Linux wants to pay, will make the companies make (at the very least) better drivers to support their engine, then it will happen. Look at the state of ARM. Set top boxes, phones, tablets of all sizes will be able to run it. 2 million in cash makes its it even better. Now a Linux, Android port makes even more sense. They can now make a Linux port an be compatible with virtually all machines and OS's. I can set up a S4 Pro chip or a host of others that can play the same game. No NDA, I don't have to "clear" it with anyone. I just have to come up with a *nix compatible hardware setup to get it to run.
Now as a hardware manufacturer what would you side with?
I guess the first step is to call customer service, they give you the run around and basically laugh you off.
Second step is to ask for a manager who you never really get to speak to but maybe get to leave a voice mail or email to some generic mail box that in turn tells you the same thing but more cordially of course.
Now you either just give up because you've spent 10+ hrs time on hold and 2+ hrs on the phone trying to get transferred to the "Right Person(TM)" or you try to take it to the next step, Corporate!
They send you a canned message citing policy and some obscure paragraph in the 100 page agreement you clicked "Agree" to.
Even if you still believe you are right now you file a claim in small claims court. You get sent a library of congress sized package outlining why they believe they are right and you are wrong. You feel over whelmed and retain a lawyer to see the best course of action for a small fee of a couple grand. The lawyer says it will also cost an additional fee to read the mountain of paper sent and no guarantee but the outlook could be good!
2 months to the court date just to find out they need another court date because your TOS has changed (you did agree to the new terms last time you logged back in right?). All said and done 2 years later you may get an agreement of %50 of you original claim or settle out of court for %75 if you sign away all your future claim rights. Mean while the lawyer gets to trump up his fees and gets reimbursed 100% and you get $50 of your $100 claim.
So you think it's more profitable to sue individually? Please explain!
Wouldn't it be benificial to all patent / copyright holders to be able to see this code? It sounds like it should be manditory since that was the whole idea of the patent system to begin with, for people to show their work with out fear someone else will claim their invention as their own.
Trolls can sift through code looking for violations. Investors look at such things and weigh the pros/cons and sometimes decide that being proprietary affords more protections.
Does it matter the intentions of the person going through the code if some infringing code is found is it any more legal if it is obfsucated by compilers? Maybe if there is infringing code the patent holders of said code should be informed since it is their legal right to assert their claims. Maybe if this was the case where all code that holds patented material was to be availible to all to review but not implement the result would be the realization that no one can really innovate with the current system and force the market to correct it's self like capitalizim it's self insures?
If the concepts underlying the code are indeed patentended then is the copying of said code not protected by the governing countries laws? If I had patended a really cool/advanced algorythm then by showing it's implimentation how am I hurting my 'invention'? I was of the understanding that by recieving a patent for an invention I was able to show everyone how I did it because I was protected by law from anyone implimenting it for a period of time with out my explicit permission.
So I guess tl;dr if someone got their hands on Nvidia's/ATI's driver code and showed the world how would that effect patents and/or intellectual property rights?
To be fair to motorcyclists I have to admit I see why they do make their bikes so loud, it's because of oblivious drivers. Loud bikes make themselves known and make encompassing drivers aware of their presence. I have witnessed my self many times a driver in a car changing lanes just to find out half way through their maneuver that there is a motorcycle in the lane. Motorcyclists do have a right to the road as everyone else and if the driver of a car is going to neglect their responsibilities by doing a proper check of the road then I say all the power to them.
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An interesting implementation would be an entire piece of clothing like a hat entirely woven with this material. One weakness of traditional PV cells is the angle it faces the source (the sun). A perpendicular angle to the source achieves maximum results, being circular allows to capture light at different angles to the source much more efficiently.
I think we should look at the pre and post split prices. They take in a bunch of bit-coins pre-split valued at $X USD. If they have faith that the value really will go up, they have their costs covered for the hardware, plus the amount of the increase at the final sale. Also since the hardware will sponsor the growth of mining its self, more coins will provide for more purchases making the currency that much more valuable. Further they are indeed able to circulate fewer devices than they use themselves using the income from the consumer hardware will allow them to make much larger scale versions of their own. It definitely looks like a good move if bit coins go up in value and at least a leg-up on mining themselves if they invest their time into an industrial scale version.
We should have a standard for hanging WIFI dongles off of pigeons, making a mesh network ;)
Is this a shining example or what?
Maybe their in it together ....?
Why is it that other countries aren't doing the same thing?
I hear that some criminals keep money in banks. I guess your saying we should shut them down.
Until they find out they can use it as a projectile....
So TL;DR
"Desperate times call for desperate measures"?
You may not be taking into account that each company will send at least one posting a day but most of them are just basic updates to keep the company name fresh in their heads. If (in this example) you have 1M followers and you send just one update per day $3000x30 = $90,000/month or $1,095,000 a year just to send one message a day to people who have already shown interest in what ever you happen to be babbling about. So compare this to Twitter where I can send verbal diarrhea all day long for next to nothing and we now have a supply/demand curve. So while overall you're spending roughly $1/follower/year(for only one post/day) when you compare it to twitter you start to see that you can engage your fan base (not necessarily your customer base) in a much more responsive manner. You can try out different tactics and see what fits. If you blab too much people will stop listening (not following) you, if you get it right you will attract more attention and followers.
So as the rhetoric goes the market will work its self out as we see today with Cubans $0.02.
Maybe trying another GPU intensive task (bitcoin mining, OpenCL/CUDA,etc) will trigger what I've found. My Winamp visualization is Milkdrop and the settings are pretty much cranked at 1080p resolution.
As someone who has been using Win8 RC since about August, throwing the whole desktop on the GPU isn't quite as good as I had hoped. My example is as follows. My hardware specs are AMD FX-6100 @ 3.7GHz, Radeon HD 7850, 16GB RAM(1600). When running iTunes/Winamp visualizations on one monitor (windowed or full screen) the GPU usage skyrockets (as per Open Hardware Monitor) and the entire UI on both screens becomes less than a slide show. CPU usage rests at about 10%. Now whenever you run a mildly GPU intensive task in a window your system basically becomes completely unresponsive. My GPU is not the best out there but the majority of systems out there ship with much less, I can't feel a bit less then ambitious that this won't effect most people negatively overall.
As for your claim that it would require a "kernel rewrite" I have to say I'm impressed. Apparently you know the implementation of the system which apparently up to now was believed to be closed source. I am curious how you know how the kernel would have to be "re-written" when according to the version numbers they just went from 6.1 to 6.2.
As for this
all I can say is, did that really make sense to you as you wrote it?
Really?
Ahhh all bullshit. If whomever sees that Linux wants to pay, will make the companies make (at the very least) better drivers to support their engine, then it will happen. Look at the state of ARM. Set top boxes, phones, tablets of all sizes will be able to run it. 2 million in cash makes its it even better. Now a Linux, Android port makes even more sense. They can now make a Linux port an be compatible with virtually all machines and OS's. I can set up a S4 Pro chip or a host of others that can play the same game. No NDA, I don't have to "clear" it with anyone. I just have to come up with a *nix compatible hardware setup to get it to run.
Now as a hardware manufacturer what would you side with?
By just a hand full of people all in the same city? You work for any Canadian telcoms by chance?
They lost it just weeks before release date, not some 3-5 year in the future prototype.
This is just a PR stunt, it's OK, all will be well.
Sounds great.
I guess the first step is to call customer service, they give you the run around and basically laugh you off.
Second step is to ask for a manager who you never really get to speak to but maybe get to leave a voice mail or email to some generic mail box that in turn tells you the same thing but more cordially of course.
Now you either just give up because you've spent 10+ hrs time on hold and 2+ hrs on the phone trying to get transferred to the "Right Person(TM)" or you try to take it to the next step, Corporate!
They send you a canned message citing policy and some obscure paragraph in the 100 page agreement you clicked "Agree" to.
Even if you still believe you are right now you file a claim in small claims court. You get sent a library of congress sized package outlining why they believe they are right and you are wrong. You feel over whelmed and retain a lawyer to see the best course of action for a small fee of a couple grand. The lawyer says it will also cost an additional fee to read the mountain of paper sent and no guarantee but the outlook could be good!
2 months to the court date just to find out they need another court date because your TOS has changed (you did agree to the new terms last time you logged back in right?). All said and done 2 years later you may get an agreement of %50 of you original claim or settle out of court for %75 if you sign away all your future claim rights. Mean while the lawyer gets to trump up his fees and gets reimbursed 100% and you get $50 of your $100 claim.
So you think it's more profitable to sue individually? Please explain!
Does it matter the intentions of the person going through the code if some infringing code is found is it any more legal if it is obfsucated by compilers? Maybe if there is infringing code the patent holders of said code should be informed since it is their legal right to assert their claims. Maybe if this was the case where all code that holds patented material was to be availible to all to review but not implement the result would be the realization that no one can really innovate with the current system and force the market to correct it's self like capitalizim it's self insures?
I have a sincere question about proprietary code.
If the concepts underlying the code are indeed patentended then is the copying of said code not protected by the governing countries laws? If I had patended a really cool/advanced algorythm then by showing it's implimentation how am I hurting my 'invention'? I was of the understanding that by recieving a patent for an invention I was able to show everyone how I did it because I was protected by law from anyone implimenting it for a period of time with out my explicit permission.
So I guess tl;dr if someone got their hands on Nvidia's/ATI's driver code and showed the world how would that effect patents and/or intellectual property rights?
lol wut?
To be fair to motorcyclists I have to admit I see why they do make their bikes so loud, it's because of oblivious drivers. Loud bikes make themselves known and make encompassing drivers aware of their presence. I have witnessed my self many times a driver in a car changing lanes just to find out half way through their maneuver that there is a motorcycle in the lane. Motorcyclists do have a right to the road as everyone else and if the driver of a car is going to neglect their responsibilities by doing a proper check of the road then I say all the power to them.
Just wait till they type in as the password "the password is McDonald's", allow hilarity to ensue.
Hey I'm Canadian and umm.. ya I'll shut up now.
Maybe a simple blinking LED would be all they really need.