How am I supposed to interperet a rating of a Troll. Don't you think it would be more productive to respond with something constructive like an opinion or assessment of your own?
Once, I just plain ordered the wrong things because I was unaware of the power requirements/compatibility for nVidia SLi boards. I admitted this and requested an RMA. Newegg had no problem and even waived the restocking fee for me.
In 2005 the flow of information from person to person is instantaneous and dynamic.
I think people in general spend less time composing and choosing to word themselves accurately and correctly because the speed and ease of commication allows everything to be elaborated or clarified, if necessary, immediately.
I will admit that there is a lot of crap out there, but believe me we are not getting the 'cream of the crop'... Look at some of the crap that's shown on the cable channels over the last couple of years: Beyblade? Ultimate Muscle? Don't make me laugh.
Those are children's shows, created, aired and subsequently licensed elsewhere for the express puprose of selling toys to children.
Those shows are not for you.
It's like bitching about how none of the clothes in the kids section at the department store fit you.
£20+ is NOT a acceptable for a DVD with 3, 20 minute episodes.
Yeah, it bothers me that most anime DVDs are half full at best and command a premium price. However, I doubt that Geneon, ADV and others are sitting on huge piles of cash because of it. They are paying considerable licensing fees up front for niche products and pricing them accordingly.
And besides, in my honest opinion, my experience shows that fansubbers generally produced a higher quality and more accurate translation that most of the DVD releases have. Why should we pay for something of lower quality?
Personally, I remember a time when the only way to see anything but a select few titles was to find a 57th generation VHS copy or pay outrageous prices to import one directly.
I was overjoyed when Manga and the like started releasing more titles stateside with quality dubs/subs. Nowadays I buy DVDs for visual/aural quality and value added bonus features (art galleries, interviews, commentary, behind the scenes clips, packaging).
Rampant bootlegging of licensed works which serve a relatively tiny market could mean losing all that and I don't want to go back there.
From a support perspective, these Blackberries have been a nightmare for us. The well publicised RIM server problems (which my users think is *my* fault), problems with the synchronization software on Windows, problems integrating with Lotus Notes, how fragile the units are (I had a user break 2 LCD screens in one week by dropping them), and problems ungrading to newer models.. If RIM gets sued into oblivion and we stop using the damn Blackberries, that would make my day.
My experience with deploying Blackberries and BES has been very smooth. RIM's documentation and support are very good. However, I would like debug logs explained in detail. I've asked RIM for this specifically and they pointed me to a 1 day class which can't possible provide what I'm looking for.
I agree wholeheartedly about the BB's fragility. I dropped one less than 18 inches while tying my shoe the other day...cracked screen. In contrast, my Sanyo phone has been dropped on the pavement from a full sprint, kicked down the street, sat on and stepped on without skipping a beat.
OK, so you need a multi-GB/s connection between the GPU and the DVI transmitter, which still isn't free.
Not free but negligible. Budget boards pull of integrated, accelerated video while keeping to low price points already. Sapphire will be releasing a Radeon Xpress integrated video + integrated DVI solution shortly.
I like Anandtech and have for many years but this article seems pretty pointless.
The only purpose I can see would be to make PC Gamers (the lifeblood of sites like Anandtech) feel better about dumping $$$ into PC hardware. The cold-cathode, lexan window crowd, pc-specs-in-my-signature crowd can rest assured that they will, *technically* have the baddest boxes around sitting on their desks.
Comparing $300 consoles to PCs with $300+ video cards is just dumb. This is particularly when the gaming experience provided by each would be considered comparable by most people.
However, many, if not most do, probably more than you expect. Run of the mill Dells have been incorporating low end Radeon and Geforce chips for several years.
I don't know, but I suspect GPUs aren't terribly compatible with each other, so for any sort of market, you'd have to code for multiple GPU types.
I would imagine that they are not really that different. After all, they conform to a particular feature set or directx/opengl revision. Games don't have to be recompiled to run on different cards as long as a driver is available.
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...suggestion section on Amazon.
(Which has a striking resemblence to what is described in the patent.)
The first thing I thought was "Damn, that's a great idea. Why doesn't everybody have this?"
That's exactly it. "Why doesn't everybody have this?".
If the idea is so *obvious* why haven't other e-tailers implemented it already and by doing so won my business away from their competitors?
Did some prior Amazon patent cockblock the world from deploying this "obvious" tool or is Amazon actually innovating in ways that others aren't and producing usuable value-added services while others arent?
I can't think of this in the same way as other "bad patents" which always seem to prey on technologies that have almost entirely developed, implemented and marketed by someone other than the patent holder.
Unlike quick buck bastards of the world, Amazon is acually developing and using this IP to their and my advantage *before* most everyone else. With that said, I can't blame or condemn them for this.
An Australian news site quoting "battlefied doctors" with regards to research supposedly performed at pitt.edu?
Half a glance would have told anyone who can read that this story is BS.
I also run a Blackberry Enterprise Server connected to GroupWise in a huge environment. All of my experiences with RIM support have been excellent.
Every issue I have brought to RIMs attention has been resolved and the techs have been happy to give detailed explanations of everything I've thought to ask them.
They don't come with manuals of any kind, not even downloadable! No, I don't consider the intro pamphlet a manual. I am constantly asking the extremely experienced blackberry users at work "what's this for" and "how do you do this" and half of the time they can't even answer my questions!
This is just plain incorrect. The 2/3 inch shipping manual and PDFs on the handheld CD weren't enough? The first match from a basic search like "blackberry user manual" on Google was too hard to type? Or was blackberry.com to hard to figure out?
If anyone of any importance at RIM is reading this: Please license the tech for a reasonable cost to companies who make similar devices so the human interface can be improved on. You'll get money from each device sold as well as 100% of the back-end servers/services with none of the handheld development costs! ("win/win/win")
If you had actually read the article you would know that roughly half of it details RIMs plans to do just that.
Blackberries are all over the place here. On a downtown Metro platform, at rush hour at least 3-5 will be visible at any given time.
I administer a Blackberry Enterprise Server. The ubiquitous, strong, transparent encryption, wireless wipe/reprovisioning and underground (Metrorail) coverage from Verizon makes the devices very popular here.
Reading "something that's so way off base in interpretation" doesn't seem quite so bad after reading through several paragraphs of "stammering" fanboy nitpicking about it.
The Express, a free mini-paper from the Washington Post recently featured a Geeks on Call tech in regular section that profiles various "unusual" jobs around the city.
Did you ever wonder what happened to force feedback, controllers that push your hands around so you can feel the action in the game as well as see it (we're talking real force feedback, not controllers that vibrate like pagers)? Somebody has a patent, that's what. Did you know you can't have mini-games during a loading screen because of patent law?
This is funny considering the last real force feedback controller I used was my Namco JogCon that came with Ridge Racer 4 and Namco apparently holds the "loading screen mini-game" patent.
I imagine most of these million/billion dollar companies are more than aware of the "benefits" of patents.
However, unlike oppurtunistic, quick buck, cocksmokers (these guys) they actually produce products and have an interest in continuing to do so. Polluting a creative industry with patent battles would hurt everyone involved.
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That the eunuch that assumptive quote is attributed to is an Anonymous Coward. I'd love to know who said it was and boycott their releases.
Seems like potential "get of jail free card" to me.
Further, Pagerank is undoubtedly smart enough to avoid allowing multiple links from a single document to signifigantly impact a score.
Spend your foolish sense of righteousness elsewhere please.
How am I supposed to interperet a rating of a Troll. Don't you think it would be more productive to respond with something constructive like an opinion or assessment of your own?
If I don't see an estimated shipping cost as soon as anonymously plop an item into my cart I'm gone.
http://newegg.com/ http://newegg.com/ http://newegg.com/
I've placed 6 orders ranging from 2-12 items with them in the last year. *EVERYTHING* arrived right on time or early.
http://newegg.com/ http://newegg.com/ http://newegg.com/
Once, I just plain ordered the wrong things because I was unaware of the power requirements/compatibility for nVidia SLi boards. I admitted this and requested an RMA. Newegg had no problem and even waived the restocking fee for me.
http://newegg.com/ http://newegg.com/ http://newegg.com/
I can't say enough positive things about Newegg.
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I think people in general spend less time composing and choosing to word themselves accurately and correctly because the speed and ease of commication allows everything to be elaborated or clarified, if necessary, immediately.
Those are children's shows, created, aired and subsequently licensed elsewhere for the express puprose of selling toys to children.
Those shows are not for you.
It's like bitching about how none of the clothes in the kids section at the department store fit you.
£20+ is NOT a acceptable for a DVD with 3, 20 minute episodes.
Yeah, it bothers me that most anime DVDs are half full at best and command a premium price. However, I doubt that Geneon, ADV and others are sitting on huge piles of cash because of it. They are paying considerable licensing fees up front for niche products and pricing them accordingly.
And besides, in my honest opinion, my experience shows that fansubbers generally produced a higher quality and more accurate translation that most of the DVD releases have. Why should we pay for something of lower quality?
Personally, I remember a time when the only way to see anything but a select few titles was to find a 57th generation VHS copy or pay outrageous prices to import one directly.
I was overjoyed when Manga and the like started releasing more titles stateside with quality dubs/subs. Nowadays I buy DVDs for visual/aural quality and value added bonus features (art galleries, interviews, commentary, behind the scenes clips, packaging).
Rampant bootlegging of licensed works which serve a relatively tiny market could mean losing all that and I don't want to go back there.
My experience with deploying Blackberries and BES has been very smooth. RIM's documentation and support are very good. However, I would like debug logs explained in detail. I've asked RIM for this specifically and they pointed me to a 1 day class which can't possible provide what I'm looking for.
I agree wholeheartedly about the BB's fragility. I dropped one less than 18 inches while tying my shoe the other day...cracked screen. In contrast, my Sanyo phone has been dropped on the pavement from a full sprint, kicked down the street, sat on and stepped on without skipping a beat.
Not free but negligible. Budget boards pull of integrated, accelerated video while keeping to low price points already. Sapphire will be releasing a Radeon Xpress integrated video + integrated DVI solution shortly.
Labeling Mode 7 "hype" is ridiculous.
The only purpose I can see would be to make PC Gamers (the lifeblood of sites like Anandtech) feel better about dumping $$$ into PC hardware. The cold-cathode, lexan window crowd, pc-specs-in-my-signature crowd can rest assured that they will, *technically* have the baddest boxes around sitting on their desks.
Comparing $300 consoles to PCs with $300+ video cards is just dumb. This is particularly when the gaming experience provided by each would be considered comparable by most people.
However, many, if not most do, probably more than you expect. Run of the mill Dells have been incorporating low end Radeon and Geforce chips for several years.
I don't know, but I suspect GPUs aren't terribly compatible with each other, so for any sort of market, you'd have to code for multiple GPU types.
I would imagine that they are not really that different. After all, they conform to a particular feature set or directx/opengl revision. Games don't have to be recompiled to run on different cards as long as a driver is available.
Why wouldn't the same be true other programs?
With digital displays becoming the norm. Won't the DAC be a thing of the past before long anyway?
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...suggestion section on Amazon.
(Which has a striking resemblence to what is described in the patent.)
The first thing I thought was "Damn, that's a great idea. Why doesn't everybody have this?"
That's exactly it. "Why doesn't everybody have this?".
If the idea is so *obvious* why haven't other e-tailers implemented it already and by doing so won my business away from their competitors?
Did some prior Amazon patent cockblock the world from deploying this "obvious" tool or is Amazon actually innovating in ways that others aren't and producing usuable value-added services while others arent?
I can't think of this in the same way as other "bad patents" which always seem to prey on technologies that have almost entirely developed, implemented and marketed by someone other than the patent holder.
Unlike quick buck bastards of the world, Amazon is acually developing and using this IP to their and my advantage *before* most everyone else. With that said, I can't blame or condemn them for this.
That was my first thought as well. I'd like to get my hands on the details of this "release".
An Australian news site quoting "battlefied doctors" with regards to research supposedly performed at pitt.edu? Half a glance would have told anyone who can read that this story is BS.
Every issue I have brought to RIMs attention has been resolved and the techs have been happy to give detailed explanations of everything I've thought to ask them.
This is just plain incorrect. The 2/3 inch shipping manual and PDFs on the handheld CD weren't enough? The first match from a basic search like "blackberry user manual" on Google was too hard to type? Or was blackberry.com to hard to figure out?
If anyone of any importance at RIM is reading this: Please license the tech for a reasonable cost to companies who make similar devices so the human interface can be improved on. You'll get money from each device sold as well as 100% of the back-end servers/services with none of the handheld development costs! ("win/win/win")
If you had actually read the article you would know that roughly half of it details RIMs plans to do just that.
I work in DC.
Blackberries are all over the place here. On a downtown Metro platform, at rush hour at least 3-5 will be visible at any given time.
I administer a Blackberry Enterprise Server. The ubiquitous, strong, transparent encryption, wireless wipe/reprovisioning and underground (Metrorail) coverage from Verizon makes the devices very popular here.
Reading "something that's so way off base in interpretation" doesn't seem quite so bad after reading through several paragraphs of "stammering" fanboy nitpicking about it.
His salary 30K.
What a small world.
I worked there briefly about 8 years ago. Any idea if MCPS is still running on Novell?
Did you ever wonder what happened to force feedback, controllers that push your hands around so you can feel the action in the game as well as see it (we're talking real force feedback, not controllers that vibrate like pagers)? Somebody has a patent, that's what. Did you know you can't have mini-games during a loading screen because of patent law? This is funny considering the last real force feedback controller I used was my Namco JogCon that came with Ridge Racer 4 and Namco apparently holds the "loading screen mini-game" patent.
However, unlike oppurtunistic, quick buck, cocksmokers (these guys) they actually produce products and have an interest in continuing to do so. Polluting a creative industry with patent battles would hurt everyone involved.