Feel free to go google DMCA abuse. There's about 100,000 hits, and you might find one or two in there that might lead you to understand WHY it's reasonable to think that a corporation might go after this, using the DMCA as a weapon, becausethey'vedoneitbefore.
The FatWallet one is particularly educational. I invite you to go read it. It's even less applicable to the DMCA than card-stripe reading, and it happened anyway.
Since one of the listed articles talks about common security blunders with cards, it's time to start the over/under pool on how long it takes before this guy gets shut down by some corporation claiming DMCA violations.
Okay, I'll have to take your word for it, but 700$ still seems steep, though, considering how it's been shown possible to manually hack some of the gaming cards with the hardware equivalent into FireGL cards.
As stated in someone else's post that covered the hack -- "As many of you already know, the GPUs that ATI use in their desktop graphics cards are the same GPUs used in their workstation-grade graphics cards. The reason for the performance differences between desktop and workstation graphics cards lie in the driver."
Seems like you're paying an extra few hundred dollars for software, not hardware.
Since this product is aimed at the mid-range market with its price-tag of $699 (630), potential customers can't expect the full feature set.
Hold the friggin' phone. 700$ is mid-range? What, do you have to take a second mortgage out to get top of the line stuff?
Anyway, it's good to see that ATI is going with V**** enumerations to match NVidia's Quadro FX ***** enumerations. Those X700/X800 and 6600/6800 patterns were too easy to remember, IMHO. It's not a free market unless you're confusing the hell out of your customer base with numbering schemes.
It'd be better if the font weren't so small, though...
poetry time!
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Blink, Take 2
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· Score: 1, Offtopic
And so it came to pass that a new form of dupe hit Slashdot's front page, and Gary's got the scoop. He's given us an opinion, on this new book called "Blink" So that we may compare what these two guys think. While James thought that "Blink" had passed the test, This new guy, Gary Cornell, remained unimpressed. James thought that Blink would spark conversation, But Gary can't quite understand James's elation. There's a lack of depth here, Gary purported, and a theory that the author inadequately supported. But let's not get caught up in Gary and his dissing, Since it's possible that there are some points that he's missing. So let's all begin our analyses microscopic, while this particular post gets modded offtopic.
Dedicated game peripherals, available for either game consoles or PCs from QMotions, replace keyboards and game controllers and let players use real sports equipment for actual full-motion player participation. The Batter-up game combines sensors to replace the keyboard/joystick activation of the swing along with adjustable sleeves packed with additional sensors that can easily accommodate standard wood, metal, or plastic bats. Foot-controlled buttons enable the batter to control head-first or feet-first slides.
Anyone else think it's a bad idea to have this kind of stuff lying around next to your XBox?
Man, sometimes I wish Slashdot did user-generated polls.
Anyhow, some questions to you Red Hat customers...
When Red Hat started Fedora and then switched its major focus to the enterprise, how many of you stayed loyal to Red Hat, and how many of you went to another distro?
And, of those that left, how many of you are willing to embrace the return of the prodigal son?
The US R&D expenditure is bigger than the next five countries put together, and India is nowhere in the picture.
Granted, that's impressive spending, but how much of this has to do with a higher overall cost of living in the US, and therefore, higher salaries for your workers? Also, how much of that spending is directly related to the military?
Just wondering how much overall dollar output directly relates to one's place on the R&D totem pole.
Interestingly, claim 48 describes a user interface that responds to a user's request to "delete" his search history by rendering it "undisplayable" to him, but still leaving it accessible for other uses.
Holy cow. I think they should change the patent claim from "Server architecture and methods for persistently storing and serving event data" to plain old "Evil".
Funny, isn't it? We just recently had to hear Bill Gates talk about Microsoft's commitment to interoperability, and then here we have the BSA trying to basically destroy open standards, which can help guarantee interoperability.
I'm having trouble understanding all this. Hopefully, one day, one of these two corporations can explain it to me, preferably in a nice, simplified language with all the unnecessary words removed. That'd be double-plus helpful.
The article talks about the company starting to 'think big' after being approached by venture capitalists, and has some stats on the blog industry in general.
Pardon the skepticism, but...
You know, it's crazy, but you'd think that after the dot.com bubble burst the venture capitalists would be a little more careful with their money when it came to tech, yet here they are, wanting to get in on an industry where the main product is something that is already available for free. Where will the revenue, and further, the return on the investment, come from? (Firing Berman out of a cannon?) What's worse is that if there's another burst like the last one, investors are going to go back to shying away from small tech companies that actually produce something.
I think this whole thing is a result of all the press that the mainstream media is giving blogs, and the only reason why I think they're getting all that press is because the media LOVES an opportunity to navel gaze.
Don't get me wrong, I think blogging is cool and all, and offers a chance for political/media/other watchdogs out there, and there are some blogs I find entertaining, but really, I can't help but think that all that money is just going to go right down the drain, and the only thing they'll have to show for it is a bunch of webpages of people and their cats.
This P4 still lags behind the Athlon FX-55 and 64 4000+ for Doom3, HL2, UT2004, and the general 3dMark benchmark. Pricewatch has the FX-55 at 900$ US and the 64 4000 at 620$, which is cheaper than the best chip of the bunch at 999$. Granted, video cards are probably the biggest system decision for gamers, but if CPUs figure into your decision, you might want to consider the comparisons.
Something like this could be really good for Korea (Hyundai is a Korean company) if it took off. This country desperately needs to look at alternate fuel sources. Air pollution here is pretty bad. If this was commercially successful, it could mean some improvements over here.
"Oh God! Won't somebody please think of the key grips?"
It's things like this which make it really hard for me to feel bad for Hollywood and its ilk when they complain about media piracy, because every single time they talk about dishonesty or theft or what-have-you, things like this echo in the back of my mind.
In a revealing speech given by the Google founders, Larry Page says he would 'like to see a model where you can buy into the world's content. Let's say you pay $20 per month.'
For a company that claims they are endevouring to never be evil, this strikes me as a pretty evil bait-and-switch type scheme to me.
I think I'm going to start checking out Yahoo's search engine. Not because I think I'll ever prefer it, but because I think I'd better start getting used to it, just in case.
Slashdot Mirror
dupe dupe dupe
they duped the URL (dupe dupe)
they duped the URL (dupe dupe)
they duped the URL...
As I walk though
Slashdot's world
Nothing can stop
These dupes of URLs...
etc. etc.
Feel free to go google DMCA abuse. There's about 100,000 hits, and you might find one or two in there that might lead you to understand WHY it's reasonable to think that a corporation might go after this, using the DMCA as a weapon, because they've done it before.
The FatWallet one is particularly educational. I invite you to go read it. It's even less applicable to the DMCA than card-stripe reading, and it happened anyway.
Jeez, I wouldn't be surprised if even asking that sort of question was a violation of the DMCA.
Since one of the listed articles talks about common security blunders with cards, it's time to start the over/under pool on how long it takes before this guy gets shut down by some corporation claiming DMCA violations.
I call one week.
Picturing Dr. Evil, giggling and saying "Unless you give us 150 Million Million dollars!!! Mwahahaha etc. etc."
Okay, I'll have to take your word for it, but 700$ still seems steep, though, considering how it's been shown possible to manually hack some of the gaming cards with the hardware equivalent into FireGL cards.
As stated in someone else's post that covered the hack -- "As many of you already know, the GPUs that ATI use in their desktop graphics cards are the same GPUs used in their workstation-grade graphics cards. The reason for the performance differences between desktop and workstation graphics cards lie in the driver."
Seems like you're paying an extra few hundred dollars for software, not hardware.
Since this product is aimed at the mid-range market with its price-tag of $699 (630), potential customers can't expect the full feature set.
Hold the friggin' phone. 700$ is mid-range? What, do you have to take a second mortgage out to get top of the line stuff?
Anyway, it's good to see that ATI is going with V**** enumerations to match NVidia's Quadro FX ***** enumerations. Those X700/X800 and 6600/6800 patterns were too easy to remember, IMHO. It's not a free market unless you're confusing the hell out of your customer base with numbering schemes.
SmartPay program
Doesn't sound so smart right now...
Maybe this name will work better...
I don't know how well this will work, but I've got in on Kazaa as a zipped webpage under the title "Star Wars Episode 3 Photos".
Do an AC reply to this post if you were able to get it.
Sorry, I don't know how to do torrents...
Yeah, it's down, but that's not the worst of it -- even with nothing available to see, it's still looking more entertaining than Episodes 1 and 2.
It'd be better if the font weren't so small, though...
And so it came to pass that a new form of dupe
hit Slashdot's front page, and Gary's got the scoop.
He's given us an opinion, on this new book called "Blink"
So that we may compare what these two guys think.
While James thought that "Blink" had passed the test,
This new guy, Gary Cornell, remained unimpressed.
James thought that Blink would spark conversation,
But Gary can't quite understand James's elation.
There's a lack of depth here, Gary purported,
and a theory that the author inadequately supported.
But let's not get caught up in Gary and his dissing,
Since it's possible that there are some points that he's missing.
So let's all begin our analyses microscopic,
while this particular post gets modded offtopic.
They might as well be running their webserver on #50...
This might get modded funny if people could actually get to the site and figure out which one #50 is.
Dedicated game peripherals, available for either game consoles or PCs from QMotions, replace keyboards and game controllers and let players use real sports equipment for actual full-motion player participation. The Batter-up game combines sensors to replace the keyboard/joystick activation of the swing along with adjustable sleeves packed with additional sensors that can easily accommodate standard wood, metal, or plastic bats. Foot-controlled buttons enable the batter to control head-first or feet-first slides.
Anyone else think it's a bad idea to have this kind of stuff lying around next to your XBox?
Man, sometimes I wish Slashdot did user-generated polls.
Anyhow, some questions to you Red Hat customers...
When Red Hat started Fedora and then switched its major focus to the enterprise, how many of you stayed loyal to Red Hat, and how many of you went to another distro?
And, of those that left, how many of you are willing to embrace the return of the prodigal son?
The US R&D expenditure is bigger than the next five countries put together, and India is nowhere in the picture.
Granted, that's impressive spending, but how much of this has to do with a higher overall cost of living in the US, and therefore, higher salaries for your workers? Also, how much of that spending is directly related to the military?
Just wondering how much overall dollar output directly relates to one's place on the R&D totem pole.
Interestingly, claim 48 describes a user interface that responds to a user's request to "delete" his search history by rendering it "undisplayable" to him, but still leaving it accessible for other uses.
Holy cow. I think they should change the patent claim from "Server architecture and methods for persistently storing and serving event data" to plain old "Evil".
Funny, isn't it? We just recently had to hear Bill Gates talk about Microsoft's commitment to interoperability, and then here we have the BSA trying to basically destroy open standards, which can help guarantee interoperability.
I'm having trouble understanding all this. Hopefully, one day, one of these two corporations can explain it to me, preferably in a nice, simplified language with all the unnecessary words removed. That'd be double-plus helpful.
The article talks about the company starting to 'think big' after being approached by venture capitalists, and has some stats on the blog industry in general.
Pardon the skepticism, but...
You know, it's crazy, but you'd think that after the dot.com bubble burst the venture capitalists would be a little more careful with their money when it came to tech, yet here they are, wanting to get in on an industry where the main product is something that is already available for free. Where will the revenue, and further, the return on the investment, come from? (Firing Berman out of a cannon?) What's worse is that if there's another burst like the last one, investors are going to go back to shying away from small tech companies that actually produce something.
I think this whole thing is a result of all the press that the mainstream media is giving blogs, and the only reason why I think they're getting all that press is because the media LOVES an opportunity to navel gaze.
Don't get me wrong, I think blogging is cool and all, and offers a chance for political/media/other watchdogs out there, and there are some blogs I find entertaining, but really, I can't help but think that all that money is just going to go right down the drain, and the only thing they'll have to show for it is a bunch of webpages of people and their cats.
Quick summary for gamers:
This P4 still lags behind the Athlon FX-55 and 64 4000+ for Doom3, HL2, UT2004, and the general 3dMark benchmark. Pricewatch has the FX-55 at 900$ US and the 64 4000 at 620$, which is cheaper than the best chip of the bunch at 999$. Granted, video cards are probably the biggest system decision for gamers, but if CPUs figure into your decision, you might want to consider the comparisons.
Something like this could be really good for Korea (Hyundai is a Korean company) if it took off. This country desperately needs to look at alternate fuel sources. Air pollution here is pretty bad. If this was commercially successful, it could mean some improvements over here.
"Oh God! Won't somebody please think of the key grips?"
It's things like this which make it really hard for me to feel bad for Hollywood and its ilk when they complain about media piracy, because every single time they talk about dishonesty or theft or what-have-you, things like this echo in the back of my mind.
English is a powerful language and the nuances and connotations matter.
Indeed. Which is why one can differentiate between implied definitions and actual definitions.
If you ignore them, you may be technically correct according to the dictionary, but you have failed to effectively communicate.
Depends on the audience. You can also fail to effectively communicate by trying to alter standardized definitions of words.
In a revealing speech given by the Google founders, Larry Page says he would 'like to see a model where you can buy into the world's content. Let's say you pay $20 per month.'
For a company that claims they are endevouring to never be evil, this strikes me as a pretty evil bait-and-switch type scheme to me.
I think I'm going to start checking out Yahoo's search engine. Not because I think I'll ever prefer it, but because I think I'd better start getting used to it, just in case.