The two aren't mutually exclusive. A console upgrade can still be a major event. They would still only do it every 5-7 years. But when they do it, the changes would be deterministic. I as a developer would know "OK, they'll have more cores, faster processors, more memory, and a much faster GPU but otherwise the way I do my work hasn't changed a whole lot".
I'm not saying they upgrade willy nilly or allow users to upgrade, I'm saying pick a mainstream architecture so that when they do update it with a new console version it's not a huge change.
True enough. The point is there aren't a lot of DVI capture cards, and there wouldn't be a lot of HDMI capture even without HDCP. So the "bad guys" imposing DRM at the interconnect level isn't hurting anyone.
If anything, HDHP is pointless. Capturing content from HDMI would be retarded, especially since you can easily do it in any of numerous other ways.
Yeah, way to mix stuff up all crazy like. What does HDMI have to do with anything? Personally I think you're retarded if you want an extra D/A and A/D conversion in your video loop, and further retarded if you don't want audio and video in one cable.
More importantly, name one thing that HDMI has prevented you from doing compared to, say, DVI which has none of your hated "teh DRMz!" in it. Do you have a DVI video input device in your computer? If so, you must be loaded.
HDMI is sweet, and nothing wrong with Bluray either. I rip that shit straight to ISO and play it back from my media center. What DRM?
Bollocks. Who cares about the look and feel. Nobody who will be doing more than base data entry will be limited by exposure to one OS UI. And I hate to break it to you but Windows has quite a good CLI now in Powershell and there are other shells available as well.
Understanding computers isn't about one particular paradigm of CLI vs. GUI vs. Linux vs. Windows... It's about an interest and self learning. I didn't learn Linux or Windows in school, I learned them on my own.
Who gives a shit about platforms? Anyone who's really into computers will learn what they need and want to learn regardless of the classes. I didn't learn my computer knowledge in class, I learned it hacking around on my own.
OK, but what does this have to do with Windows or Microsoft? If I go to a class and all they teach me is how to click and drool, is that an issue with the OS or is it an issue with the teacher? What makes you think MS wants to blah blah ignorant blah blah? There's a huge culture of hacking around in Windows, and Microsoft has the best development tools there are.
Nonsense. If you're into computers you'll expose _yourself_ to other OS's and platforms. If you don't, you're never going to be a high end IT/software guy anyway.
Oh bullshit. Linux vendors routinely EOL support for their older versions. I work in a company that has gone through this. More importantly, commercial software vendors will stop supporting older releases, older versions of glibc, etc...
It's like that Australian jackass who claimed Vista would down-rez everyone's video because of it's much feared DRM. Well...no. It didn't... Turns out he was completely full of shit and overblowing a non-issue.
Microsoft made a mistake using a PowerPC chip, that's the problem. They should have stuck with x86 chips. Then they could load up a 32nm, 8 core CPU in late 2010 and have NVidia and ATI compete to pick the graphics chip, and developers would see more power, a new DirectX version, but otherwise a similar development experience.
PowerPC... Seriously, smart decision there Microsoft.
For that matter, Cell was a stupid choice too. Mainstream x86_64 chips are now the only logical choice for a high end console, but both major console makers have F'ed themselves.
Nevermind that they will have processors as fast or faster than an 11GHz processor (using the technology of the time) in 2011, right? They may have been off in terms of the clock speed, but not the performance.
Yeah, the same limits of miniaturization that dolts have been trotting out for the last decade? I remember hearing a decade ago that we were "really close" to the limits of silicon.
Strictly in terms of clock, yes. But if you normalize for performance/clock it doesn't look that off. I imagine a 3.2GHz nehalem would perform somewhere around (or even north of) a 6.7GHz P4.
Utter nonsense. What you say is only true of a highly skilled female and a low skilled or unskilled male of the same weight class. In the upper and even middle echelons I'd be surprised if anyone would even sanction women fighting men. There may be a _very few_ exceptions, but in these cases the women would be considered basically freaks.
It comes down to muscle mass in the end, and men simply have more. If you have two people equally trained, the stronger and faster one will win.
Yeah... There are very few sports where women would be competitive. The record difference in the 100m dash between men and women is almost a second, that's a _long_ time in the 100m dash. Any kind of boxing/weightlifting would be a joke. You'd have to go back to the 50's to find a time when the best female marathon runner of today could be the best man. Seriously I said "very few", but is there _any_ sport requiring strength, agility, or endurance where women are competitive with men?
It's not a little energy. It's a lot. That's why comparing gas energy density with battery density is sophistry - it's apples and oranges. The comparison is meaningless.
Yeah.. corporations don't (and shouldn't) give a fuck about your silly "free market". A corporation's goal is to maximize profits, not create some abstract "free market". So saying Microsoft has some "absense of free market ideals" is silly.
A free market means Microsoft can sell their product for whatever the hell price they want, and you are free to buy it or not to buy it. Your definition of "free market" is just a convenient excuse to be all crazy and wacky and pretend that your wanting to interfere in the consentual purchase of a product by a buyer is the real free market. Up is down! Left is right! I'm caaa-raaazy!.
Did they claim it was relevant? Part of arguing a case is being persuasive and presenting an argument that is compelling to the jury. The judge is saying he doesn't like that lawyers used sophistry to try to convince a jury of something? Judge, meet legal system. Legal system, meet judge.
Nah. Just like "hacking" can mean malicious "cracking", the nerds are behind on this one and refuse to accept reality. Patent trolling means, in addition to suing based on patents for which there is no patent, suing based on silly and obvious patents regardless of their being a patent.
Apparently you don't understand the concept of Jury nullification. I'd _love_ to see a judge in a murder trial try to tell the lawyers for a father who murdered his daughter's convicted rapist that he couldn't mention the fact that said rape had occurred. It would be like winning the appeal lottery, instant appeal on any guilty verdict.
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And now who will they turn to if IBM gouges them? At least there are 3 x86 CPU suppliers...
The two aren't mutually exclusive. A console upgrade can still be a major event. They would still only do it every 5-7 years. But when they do it, the changes would be deterministic. I as a developer would know "OK, they'll have more cores, faster processors, more memory, and a much faster GPU but otherwise the way I do my work hasn't changed a whole lot".
I'm not saying they upgrade willy nilly or allow users to upgrade, I'm saying pick a mainstream architecture so that when they do update it with a new console version it's not a huge change.
True enough. The point is there aren't a lot of DVI capture cards, and there wouldn't be a lot of HDMI capture even without HDCP. So the "bad guys" imposing DRM at the interconnect level isn't hurting anyone.
If anything, HDHP is pointless. Capturing content from HDMI would be retarded, especially since you can easily do it in any of numerous other ways.
Yeah, way to mix stuff up all crazy like. What does HDMI have to do with anything? Personally I think you're retarded if you want an extra D/A and A/D conversion in your video loop, and further retarded if you don't want audio and video in one cable.
More importantly, name one thing that HDMI has prevented you from doing compared to, say, DVI which has none of your hated "teh DRMz!" in it. Do you have a DVI video input device in your computer? If so, you must be loaded.
HDMI is sweet, and nothing wrong with Bluray either. I rip that shit straight to ISO and play it back from my media center. What DRM?
Bollocks. Who cares about the look and feel. Nobody who will be doing more than base data entry will be limited by exposure to one OS UI. And I hate to break it to you but Windows has quite a good CLI now in Powershell and there are other shells available as well.
Understanding computers isn't about one particular paradigm of CLI vs. GUI vs. Linux vs. Windows... It's about an interest and self learning. I didn't learn Linux or Windows in school, I learned them on my own.
Who gives a shit about platforms? Anyone who's really into computers will learn what they need and want to learn regardless of the classes. I didn't learn my computer knowledge in class, I learned it hacking around on my own.
OK, but what does this have to do with Windows or Microsoft? If I go to a class and all they teach me is how to click and drool, is that an issue with the OS or is it an issue with the teacher? What makes you think MS wants to blah blah ignorant blah blah? There's a huge culture of hacking around in Windows, and Microsoft has the best development tools there are.
Nonsense. If you're into computers you'll expose _yourself_ to other OS's and platforms. If you don't, you're never going to be a high end IT/software guy anyway.
Sorry, you lose all credibility and label yourself a dipshit when you refer to Microsoft as a "convicted felon".
Oh bullshit. Linux vendors routinely EOL support for their older versions. I work in a company that has gone through this. More importantly, commercial software vendors will stop supporting older releases, older versions of glibc, etc...
It's like that Australian jackass who claimed Vista would down-rez everyone's video because of it's much feared DRM. Well...no. It didn't... Turns out he was completely full of shit and overblowing a non-issue.
Microsoft made a mistake using a PowerPC chip, that's the problem. They should have stuck with x86 chips. Then they could load up a 32nm, 8 core CPU in late 2010 and have NVidia and ATI compete to pick the graphics chip, and developers would see more power, a new DirectX version, but otherwise a similar development experience.
PowerPC... Seriously, smart decision there Microsoft.
For that matter, Cell was a stupid choice too. Mainstream x86_64 chips are now the only logical choice for a high end console, but both major console makers have F'ed themselves.
lol, yeah.. I don't know what brainiac would come up with the idea of using ram to...allow paging of ram to...ram.
Nevermind that they will have processors as fast or faster than an 11GHz processor (using the technology of the time) in 2011, right? They may have been off in terms of the clock speed, but not the performance.
Yeah, the same limits of miniaturization that dolts have been trotting out for the last decade? I remember hearing a decade ago that we were "really close" to the limits of silicon.
Strictly in terms of clock, yes. But if you normalize for performance/clock it doesn't look that off. I imagine a 3.2GHz nehalem would perform somewhere around (or even north of) a 6.7GHz P4.
Utter nonsense. What you say is only true of a highly skilled female and a low skilled or unskilled male of the same weight class. In the upper and even middle echelons I'd be surprised if anyone would even sanction women fighting men. There may be a _very few_ exceptions, but in these cases the women would be considered basically freaks.
It comes down to muscle mass in the end, and men simply have more. If you have two people equally trained, the stronger and faster one will win.
She didn't die of steroid abuse. People blame steroids for all kinds of shit. Lyle Alzado died of a fucking brain tumor and he blamed steroids.
Yeah... There are very few sports where women would be competitive. The record difference in the 100m dash between men and women is almost a second, that's a _long_ time in the 100m dash. Any kind of boxing/weightlifting would be a joke. You'd have to go back to the 50's to find a time when the best female marathon runner of today could be the best man. Seriously I said "very few", but is there _any_ sport requiring strength, agility, or endurance where women are competitive with men?
Sports are segregated for a reason.
Umm..yes? By definition.
even if you waste a little energy by doing so.
It's not a little energy. It's a lot. That's why comparing gas energy density with battery density is sophistry - it's apples and oranges. The comparison is meaningless.
Yeah.. corporations don't (and shouldn't) give a fuck about your silly "free market". A corporation's goal is to maximize profits, not create some abstract "free market". So saying Microsoft has some "absense of free market ideals" is silly.
A free market means Microsoft can sell their product for whatever the hell price they want, and you are free to buy it or not to buy it. Your definition of "free market" is just a convenient excuse to be all crazy and wacky and pretend that your wanting to interfere in the consentual purchase of a product by a buyer is the real free market. Up is down! Left is right! I'm caaa-raaazy!.
Did they claim it was relevant? Part of arguing a case is being persuasive and presenting an argument that is compelling to the jury. The judge is saying he doesn't like that lawyers used sophistry to try to convince a jury of something? Judge, meet legal system. Legal system, meet judge.
I'm pretty sure this fine won't stick.
Nah. Just like "hacking" can mean malicious "cracking", the nerds are behind on this one and refuse to accept reality. Patent trolling means, in addition to suing based on patents for which there is no patent, suing based on silly and obvious patents regardless of their being a patent.
Apparently you don't understand the concept of Jury nullification. I'd _love_ to see a judge in a murder trial try to tell the lawyers for a father who murdered his daughter's convicted rapist that he couldn't mention the fact that said rape had occurred. It would be like winning the appeal lottery, instant appeal on any guilty verdict.