There are SSD's at the $1/GB range (your typo). Though what you meant was 1.42GB to the dollar, or $.69/GB. I'm glad to see this trend, but we still have another 50% drop or so to go before they become truly widespread. It's close, but can't say it's a surprise.
Ah, thank you. I tried to explain that it was "if this is true" (depending on if this is more than a rumor or not) because I didn't quite know the situation entirely.
Classic innovator's dilemma + lack of willingness to take risk to compete. aka classic big corporation fear of risk = competitors jump in quickly and take over. RIM hasn't been competing in almost 7-10 years, even beyond android they were never competitive in comparison to phones such as motorola's line of Iden 7&8 series phones and the Nokia's before that. All they ever had was the checkbox of "enterprise friendly". which is now expected of all companies and no longer a selling point for RIM. As a similar example - android, iphone and windows phone are more towards stagnant iterative changes than "amazing new developments" anymore. Polish vs real innovation. So I wouldn't be surprised to see new competition eventually comes in, even if it takes another 5 years.
I do recall:) They certainly seem to skirt proper court conduct though, as in this case and in the SCO case they have been warned by judges of bad conduct constantly. I wonder if something changed prior to the SCO case?
They've always been good at FUD, but never at hype. This is as much of a yawn as always. I wish it were real competition to give apple and google something to actually care or even have to compare to, but it's not.
knowing you can find the video you want on youtube, even if the purpose is to download it = reason to use youtube. Otherwise people will simply use another video source with which they can download the video from.
I don't think that has anything to do with it, aside form the RIAA probably screaming bloody murder.
Being able to download the videos *adds* value to youtube, even if it's not in the form of ad revenue. Which matters more because: Google owns youtube.
You're not a pacifist. If you don't explicitly care about all civilian casualties, which - guess what? It can include scientists in nuclear reactors. What garbage is this crap?
We may have set the nuclear program back 2-3 years, but we also set our global politics back by 20-30, which may bring every country on the planet towards refusing to work with us and basically declaring war on us. Which of these is more significant?
Umm, if those reactors were more populated it could have killed tons of people. An armed attack could cause casualties - we don't know how many. What constitutes an armed attack? A baseball bat? a gun? an army? an army tactical strike? a nuclear bomb?
Which of these also happens to be more expensive? Actual warfare or instigating cyberwarfare? guess what, we're going to get to find out as the US Gov't has basically encouraged it, outright.
The only difference between machines and bullets is that it's easier to affect a far more widespread amount of machines in a more discriminate fashion. Disable pacemakers? Shut down a hospital's equipment? These things will kill people too.
I don't think you understand how horrible their binary drivers are. It's not like they took what they do for windows and ported it to linux. Lots of shit simply doesn't work right.
They put a lot of effort into windows and took an entirely lazy "We dont' give a shit" approach to everyone else.
nobody said all DNA changes are bad, but that doesn't mean that changed caused by eating GMO products are somehow okay. Lastly the 2nd article to highlight that while it's not 100%, there are real dangers being studied with GMO.
No. This is what you do when you want to *go out of* business, not the other way around. The harm these bills have to every nation that passes them is exponentially greater than any amount than any individual recording/music industry stands to gain.
Silly:) Intel is anti-competitive. If they come in, the goal will not be to compete, but to eliminate competitors. This would be like expecting Microsoft to enter a market in an honest fashion, promising unicorns and rainbows. I should hope people are not that naieve.
Monsanto doesn't need to rethink their business model. When it comes to greed and capitalism, they have succeeded. They're raking in gigantic profits. Why should they change?
It's the countries that allow this which need to rethink whether they want to allow Monsanto - which they should not. Businesses which are anticompetitive are supposed to be penalized by antitrust, etc.
I don't think you understand how bad this stuff is. People are unsure if GMO is modifying *people* as well. So it's not just the patent and greed issues, GMO is literally affecting DNA/RNA. So it's another case where greed is literally bring down society in the same way as MPAA/RIAA.
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There are SSD's at the $1/GB range (your typo). Though what you meant was 1.42GB to the dollar, or $.69/GB. I'm glad to see this trend, but we still have another 50% drop or so to go before they become truly widespread. It's close, but can't say it's a surprise.
Ah, thank you. I tried to explain that it was "if this is true" (depending on if this is more than a rumor or not) because I didn't quite know the situation entirely.
Classic innovator's dilemma + lack of willingness to take risk to compete. aka classic big corporation fear of risk = competitors jump in quickly and take over. RIM hasn't been competing in almost 7-10 years, even beyond android they were never competitive in comparison to phones such as motorola's line of Iden 7&8 series phones and the Nokia's before that. All they ever had was the checkbox of "enterprise friendly". which is now expected of all companies and no longer a selling point for RIM.
As a similar example - android, iphone and windows phone are more towards stagnant iterative changes than "amazing new developments" anymore. Polish vs real innovation. So I wouldn't be surprised to see new competition eventually comes in, even if it takes another 5 years.
If they vote in secret, it won't make much of a difference what they are willing to state publicly - depending on if this is more than a rumor or not:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120616/02302019360/acta-not-dead-yet-supporters-make-final-push-eu-approval-may-seek-secret-ballot.shtml
I do recall :) They certainly seem to skirt proper court conduct though, as in this case and in the SCO case they have been warned by judges of bad conduct constantly. I wonder if something changed prior to the SCO case?
No, he has a point - they followed the court instructions, and the block has already been mitigated entirely:
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-disarms-bt-blockade-within-minutes-120619/
and yet only a small step from "6 billion dollars", huh.
Oracle has screwed up so badly even their lawyers are looking horrible.
They've always been good at FUD, but never at hype. This is as much of a yawn as always. I wish it were real competition to give apple and google something to actually care or even have to compare to, but it's not.
knowing you can find the video you want on youtube, even if the purpose is to download it = reason to use youtube.
Otherwise people will simply use another video source with which they can download the video from.
Is that a joke?
Hospitals and neutral/nonviolent areas are constantly used as collateral damage in real wars.
I don't think that has anything to do with it, aside form the RIAA probably screaming bloody murder.
Being able to download the videos *adds* value to youtube, even if it's not in the form of ad revenue. Which matters more because: Google owns youtube.
You're not a pacifist. If you don't explicitly care about all civilian casualties, which - guess what? It can include scientists in nuclear reactors. What garbage is this crap?
We may have set the nuclear program back 2-3 years, but we also set our global politics back by 20-30, which may bring every country on the planet towards refusing to work with us and basically declaring war on us. Which of these is more significant?
Umm, if those reactors were more populated it could have killed tons of people. An armed attack could cause casualties - we don't know how many. What constitutes an armed attack? A baseball bat? a gun? an army? an army tactical strike? a nuclear bomb?
Which of these also happens to be more expensive? Actual warfare or instigating cyberwarfare? guess what, we're going to get to find out as the US Gov't has basically encouraged it, outright.
There are wars where deaths are minimal, too.
over in one. Exactly the problem. We've built up this system for multiple decades and now we're going to try to make it less functional?
facepalm.
The only difference between machines and bullets is that it's easier to affect a far more widespread amount of machines in a more discriminate fashion.
Disable pacemakers? Shut down a hospital's equipment? These things will kill people too.
Probably helps to know what you're doing. Plenty of people have no problem with compiz and 4890s - I did it myself and it ran flawless, actually.
Maybe you should try installing drivers first as that tends to help.
I don't think you understand how horrible their binary drivers are. It's not like they took what they do for windows and ported it to linux. Lots of shit simply doesn't work right.
They put a lot of effort into windows and took an entirely lazy "We dont' give a shit" approach to everyone else.
so they shouldn't make drivers for windows, then?
nobody said all DNA changes are bad, but that doesn't mean that changed caused by eating GMO products are somehow okay. Lastly the 2nd article to highlight that while it's not 100%, there are real dangers being studied with GMO.
dont' waste my fucking time.
http://www.naturalnews.com/028245_GM_food_side_effects.html
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/the-very-real-danger-of-genetically-modified-foods/251051/
We're only about 10-15 years late. What's the worst that could happen, right? /sarcasm.
No. This is what you do when you want to *go out of* business, not the other way around. The harm these bills have to every nation that passes them is exponentially greater than any amount than any individual recording/music industry stands to gain.
Silly :) Intel is anti-competitive. If they come in, the goal will not be to compete, but to eliminate competitors. This would be like expecting Microsoft to enter a market in an honest fashion, promising unicorns and rainbows. I should hope people are not that naieve.
Monsanto doesn't need to rethink their business model. When it comes to greed and capitalism, they have succeeded. They're raking in gigantic profits. Why should they change?
It's the countries that allow this which need to rethink whether they want to allow Monsanto - which they should not. Businesses which are anticompetitive are supposed to be penalized by antitrust, etc.
I don't think you understand how bad this stuff is. People are unsure if GMO is modifying *people* as well. So it's not just the patent and greed issues, GMO is literally affecting DNA/RNA. So it's another case where greed is literally bring down society in the same way as MPAA/RIAA.