It's pretty selfish of you to not want to share a small percentage of your large wealth (which has to be pretty large to be affected by some of these new policies) to provide basic healthcare to those that can't afford it right now. Not to mention that you'll have the benefit in the long run of living in a healthier and happier country.
Except, you know, this one. Which does not boil down to just that. Which you would have known if you had actually tried reading the article.
Ok, so it boils down to "while (some_condition_is_met()) run_game(); else complain();". The whole 'saving the game somewhere else and looking for it there' is just a variation on 'some_condition_is_met'. The only novelty is that it keeps checking instead of checking once. And that one really only pisses off paid customers whose connection breaks from time to time. The pirated version will have the condition met all the time, hence no issues.
Vogel's point was only that it would take longer to hack, which would lead to more sales during the first early weeks - basically when all the money is made.
That logic is flawed. People who want to pirate the game will simply wait until it's available for download from their favourite site, they won't suddenly decide to spend money and buy the game instead.
But what should one do first to qualify for the Canadian counterpart to a green card?
Find a job in Canada, and you'll get a work visa. Spend a year or so working, and you can apply for a permanent resident status, followed by full citizenship a few years later. I guess only the first step can be hard, depending on what you do.
You don't seem to understand nVidia's business model. They don't make much under their brand, they sell the chip design to multiple companies, who then make the chip (or hire someone to do it for them) and sell it under their brand with the right to also mention nVidia's brand.
That's very much incorrect. nVidia pays TSMC to manufacture their chips, which they in turn sell to graphics board manufacturers. Nobody but nVidia (through TSMC) makes these chips, and they do not sell the license/design to anybody else to make them.
Hardware solutions typically use a lot less power to accomplish their task than general-purpose CPUs do. That's the main reason you want it for the mobile platforms.
On a desktop, the processing power to decode Theora is negligible.
A lot of today's PCs can't decode h.264 1080p stream without hardware support. It takes a lot of computing power to decode that stream in real-time. Is Theora much easier to decode than h.264?
Here's the problem with that: nVidia is board-design IP shop. They don't make anything either, they just sell their designs to other companies who build the hardware, and market it under their own brands with an "nVidia powered" seal. Patent Troll 1 vs. Patent Troll 2 according to your definition.
Outsourcing your manufacturing (of chips, or anything else for that matter) can't be described as "selling your designs", though. You're providing the fab with the spec on the part that you want them to manufacture, and you pay them to make it for you. Then don't buy the designs, you don't sell them. You still end up selling a real product (chip) to graphics board makers.
Minimum is $750, and that is tripled in case of willful infringement, which is what jury decided was the case.
As he said in his ruling, you can't only look at the actual damages, since this fine needs to serve as a deterrent, too. If you are only going to pay the value of the songs you downloaded when you get caught, then there would be no deterrent to downloading songs for free.
Great, so you are saying I have to be a photography expert before I can even start to understand the names of things in photoshop. That seems much better.
Why is that a bad thing? If you're going to be fine-tuning and editing photos, you should know what you're doing. If you don't, well, there's always "auto levels" or "auto color" menu options to use, and off you go. For those that do know what they're doing, more advanced tools are available and are called what you expect them to be called.
You didn't say anything about portability in your original post. I thought you were looking for a cheap media PC with HDMI... If you're looking for a netbook/notebook with an HDMI port, then I don't know why you're not finding any -- they are everywhere. Samsung N510, Dell Mini 10, Lenovo S12, Asus N10... Probably every netbook maker has an HDMI model out.
I wasn't forced into it, I demanded it, but I guess that only makes for different paths to the same position. I like it. You add 20-30% of administrative tasks to your daily routine that you can't avoid, but the rest is your time to manage. You can be as technical as you want, or non-technical as you want. You're the one distributing the tasks, so you can take stuff that you want to work on, assign things that you don't. You're never going to be your own boss in a company that you don't own, but at least being a manager in one gets you closer to being in control, especially if you have a good working relationship with your next level manager.
Of course, this might be just the way our company is structured... we don't really have a technical lead type of role -- the managers are both people and technical leads. If you want to stay on purely technical track you become an "architect", a sort of a technical adviser to the managers.
Since it is only the lawyers (and trolls) who make money off of this, why aren't those companies banding together to kill software patents?
How would they kill them? The only way (for the software companies) to do it is for everybody to agree to stop using them... and then it only takes one rogue to cash in on the fact that others stopped patenting things.
Oh, wait... I haven't downloaded anything either. Guess that means that all of the new stuff sucks. Who would have thought it could get so bad that people didn't want it for free?
"you and cerberusss" != "people"
Clearly, there are lots of people who do want this stuff, for free or not.
So how do you explain, then, that the top 300 sites loaded in half the time on average? It certainly seems like it's solving one of the major problems. There are others, no doubt, but this is by no means a "wrong" one to solve.
Assuming the allegations were true, how can you explain AMD's continued presence in OEM machinery anyway? HP (for instance) certainly didn't stop selling AMD-based desktops, servers, etc., and Intel+HP are like fraternal twins.
You're confusing HP with Dell. Out of all major OEMs, HP offers by far the most AMD solutions.
How do you explain that anybody sold AMD at all? Well, Intel couldn't offer enough to convince everybody to stop selling superior AMD products. If you read the lawsuit, you'll see that Dell was constantly complaining about having to only sell inferior Intel products, and that they were disappointing their customers. (To which Intel countered: "The billion dollars we gave you last year should more than compensate for your lack of competitiveness).
Yes, for awhile the Opteron series was kicking Intel ass all over the map. But, AMD never really did that much with it after awhile, and Intel finally removed head from ass to come up with Core.
I guess the point here is that even though Opteron was kicking ass, AMD couldn't get past 25% or so marketshare, thanks to what Intel was doing to preserve its monopoly. It's hard to compete when your competitor can give Dell a billion dollars to stop them from buying any AMD.. (or threaten "jihad"!)
If AMD was fairly allowed to sell the products they made a few years back, they might have had the resources to keep their fabs and fund research into next gen CPUs.
Because, if you look around a bit there are free, functional replacements for almost everything that Adobe makes.
You must not use much of their portfolio professionally to say that. The free replacements are quite non-functional for anything but most basic tasks.
On the other hand, there are lots of commercial offerings that compete well with Adobe's products. Other than Photoshop and Acrobat, all of their other heavyweights (Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Dreamweaver, etc.) have significant competitors. I'm not really sure why they should be considered a big bad monopoly.
You mean like the time the Taliban tried to deport Bin Laden, but was blocked by the Afghan supreme court... Of course the americans couldn't accept that the taliban where blocked by the court from deporting him so they decided to just say 'fuck it lets bomb'...
It's a nice idea if universal buy-in could be obtained, but... why?:-)
Well, nice presentation *is* important. Think of buttons, headings, etc... not plain text. It is all done using graphics right now, meaning you require more bandwidth to present the data, and you have redundancy in alt tags. If one has a wider variety of fonts available, one could produce very nice looking pages using text only, which is better for everybody.
All sorts of companies produce the exact same hardware and then have a registry bit/flag hidden somewhere to enable the more expensive features. nVidia and their Quadro cards comes to mind... Or Intel and their underclock/overclock crap... the chips are identical, one is stamped with a different number and frozen at a different multiplier.
That's why those types of things are done with fuses, so that's it's virtually impossible to re-enable features that have been fused out. It's certainly impossible to do purely in software.
It's only cheaper if they account for the $17 they are getting from you. There's no way bandwidth for 4GB of data costs anything close to what it costs to mail a DVD (probably on the other of $2 for packaging + shipping fees).
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It's pretty selfish of you to not want to share a small percentage of your large wealth (which has to be pretty large to be affected by some of these new policies) to provide basic healthcare to those that can't afford it right now. Not to mention that you'll have the benefit in the long run of living in a healthier and happier country.
Ok, so it boils down to "while (some_condition_is_met()) run_game(); else complain();". The whole 'saving the game somewhere else and looking for it there' is just a variation on 'some_condition_is_met'. The only novelty is that it keeps checking instead of checking once. And that one really only pisses off paid customers whose connection breaks from time to time. The pirated version will have the condition met all the time, hence no issues.
That logic is flawed. People who want to pirate the game will simply wait until it's available for download from their favourite site, they won't suddenly decide to spend money and buy the game instead.
Find a job in Canada, and you'll get a work visa. Spend a year or so working, and you can apply for a permanent resident status, followed by full citizenship a few years later. I guess only the first step can be hard, depending on what you do.
That's very much incorrect. nVidia pays TSMC to manufacture their chips, which they in turn sell to graphics board manufacturers. Nobody but nVidia (through TSMC) makes these chips, and they do not sell the license/design to anybody else to make them.
Hardware solutions typically use a lot less power to accomplish their task than general-purpose CPUs do. That's the main reason you want it for the mobile platforms.
A lot of today's PCs can't decode h.264 1080p stream without hardware support. It takes a lot of computing power to decode that stream in real-time. Is Theora much easier to decode than h.264?
Outsourcing your manufacturing (of chips, or anything else for that matter) can't be described as "selling your designs", though. You're providing the fab with the spec on the part that you want them to manufacture, and you pay them to make it for you. Then don't buy the designs, you don't sell them. You still end up selling a real product (chip) to graphics board makers.
Minimum is $750, and that is tripled in case of willful infringement, which is what jury decided was the case.
As he said in his ruling, you can't only look at the actual damages, since this fine needs to serve as a deterrent, too. If you are only going to pay the value of the songs you downloaded when you get caught, then there would be no deterrent to downloading songs for free.
Why is that a bad thing? If you're going to be fine-tuning and editing photos, you should know what you're doing. If you don't, well, there's always "auto levels" or "auto color" menu options to use, and off you go. For those that do know what they're doing, more advanced tools are available and are called what you expect them to be called.
You didn't say anything about portability in your original post. I thought you were looking for a cheap media PC with HDMI... If you're looking for a netbook/notebook with an HDMI port, then I don't know why you're not finding any -- they are everywhere. Samsung N510, Dell Mini 10, Lenovo S12, Asus N10... Probably every netbook maker has an HDMI model out.
That's why he was asking for an HDMI port... to watch it on a (presumably) large HDTV.
Well, others make similar things, too...
I wasn't forced into it, I demanded it, but I guess that only makes for different paths to the same position. I like it. You add 20-30% of administrative tasks to your daily routine that you can't avoid, but the rest is your time to manage. You can be as technical as you want, or non-technical as you want. You're the one distributing the tasks, so you can take stuff that you want to work on, assign things that you don't. You're never going to be your own boss in a company that you don't own, but at least being a manager in one gets you closer to being in control, especially if you have a good working relationship with your next level manager.
Of course, this might be just the way our company is structured... we don't really have a technical lead type of role -- the managers are both people and technical leads. If you want to stay on purely technical track you become an "architect", a sort of a technical adviser to the managers.
How would they kill them? The only way (for the software companies) to do it is for everybody to agree to stop using them... and then it only takes one rogue to cash in on the fact that others stopped patenting things.
"you and cerberusss" != "people"
Clearly, there are lots of people who do want this stuff, for free or not.
So how do you explain, then, that the top 300 sites loaded in half the time on average? It certainly seems like it's solving one of the major problems. There are others, no doubt, but this is by no means a "wrong" one to solve.
Just three years ago, they had a major shortage of single-channel chipsets and had to buy a boatload of them from ATI for Intel-branded motherboards.
You're confusing HP with Dell. Out of all major OEMs, HP offers by far the most AMD solutions.
How do you explain that anybody sold AMD at all? Well, Intel couldn't offer enough to convince everybody to stop selling superior AMD products. If you read the lawsuit, you'll see that Dell was constantly complaining about having to only sell inferior Intel products, and that they were disappointing their customers. (To which Intel countered: "The billion dollars we gave you last year should more than compensate for your lack of competitiveness).
I guess the point here is that even though Opteron was kicking ass, AMD couldn't get past 25% or so marketshare, thanks to what Intel was doing to preserve its monopoly. It's hard to compete when your competitor can give Dell a billion dollars to stop them from buying any AMD.. (or threaten "jihad"!)
If AMD was fairly allowed to sell the products they made a few years back, they might have had the resources to keep their fabs and fund research into next gen CPUs.
You must not use much of their portfolio professionally to say that. The free replacements are quite non-functional for anything but most basic tasks.
On the other hand, there are lots of commercial offerings that compete well with Adobe's products. Other than Photoshop and Acrobat, all of their other heavyweights (Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Dreamweaver, etc.) have significant competitors. I'm not really sure why they should be considered a big bad monopoly.
Citation needed.
Well, nice presentation *is* important. Think of buttons, headings, etc... not plain text. It is all done using graphics right now, meaning you require more bandwidth to present the data, and you have redundancy in alt tags. If one has a wider variety of fonts available, one could produce very nice looking pages using text only, which is better for everybody.
That's why those types of things are done with fuses, so that's it's virtually impossible to re-enable features that have been fused out. It's certainly impossible to do purely in software.
It's only cheaper if they account for the $17 they are getting from you. There's no way bandwidth for 4GB of data costs anything close to what it costs to mail a DVD (probably on the other of $2 for packaging + shipping fees).
No, but real laptops don't *only* play games. If you bring a gaming console to a meeting, it's pretty clear what you plan on doing with it.