Yeah, because the professionals use x264, right? The quick sync encoder is quite good, actually, but yeah you can choose between an imperceptible difference in quality or an additional 100X time to do the encoding.
Yeah, you're confusing architecture with fabrication. Intel has the capacity to mass produce chips using the most advanced processes in the world. Intel will be fabricating Apple's chip, not designing it. And Intel's been excellent at power efficiency for the last several years, so maybe you were gone - have you been on the moon perhaps?
I hope this is a temporary stop-gap to give Intel time to stomp a mud hole in ARM's ass in a few years just like they did with the high end CPU makers. "Oh, no, Intel can never compete with Power, Alpha, SPARC, etc..". Riiight.
A bit facile, isn't that? $15 medicine, seriously? You think these companies spend billions on research and getting drugs through testing and that since it then costs them $15 to make, the medicine is worth $15? With regard to the pharmaceutical industry they just need good watchdogs and we should end allowing advertisements for prescription drugs in the US.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with corporations, but it seems it's brought out the usual silly anti-corporation crowd. This is about contract law, it could be anybody who has such a silly contract.
Yeah, just look at that thriving Xbox 360 pirate game environment.
With enough effort any DRM can be broken somehow. The only thing the content owner has to do is ensure that it's difficult and/or expensive enough to not be worth it.
And in case you didn't read the..summary, the camera is supposed to help provide a chain of evidence. Not sure why anyone would put "feature" in double quotes and act like nobody would buy a camera that supports this.
You're right, I was speaking from logic not from our implementation of law. Binding arbitration clauses are an abomination also, they're so ridiculously bad it amazes me they're treated the way they are.
So step one, remove binding arbitration from contract law. So now, just like you can't enforce a contract making someone your slave, you can't enforce a contract signing away someone's right to sue.
Step two, remove or drastically alter class action law.
Pay attention, this ruling was vis-a-vis class action. Furthermore no contract can prevent you from suing someone - worst case you go to arbitration, say "Nah", and proceed to sue.
Nothing stopping a jury/judge in an individual claim from laying out a hefty punitive judgment. If that couple won and got $50 in damages and $50k in punitive, probably 50000 more people would be lining up to get their money too. At that point AT&T might be begging for a class action.
Basically, lawyers love class action suits. Anything lawyers love is inherently evil - there's really not much you need to know or think about beyond that.
"Class action" should be stripped from our legal system, or drastically changed - it's bullshit.
Yeah.. no. People live longer, costs go up. But old people are unwilling to recognize these facts, so the ratio of people getting benefits to people providing the funds goes up and up. Therefore you either need more people paying in (which is why some asshats propose open borders or rampant births) or the people paying in pay more.
Haha, pretty funny your post got modded "Insightful" instead of "Funny". Not sure if you meant to be sarcastic, but you were de facto sarcastic and it's funny people really think that bullshit.
We do totally exist to perpetuate the Ponzi scheme that is America, and some people think that's right and proper.
Don't be a dickhole. If you asked him the difference between 'their' and 'there' I'm sure he knows and was educated on the difference. Sometimes the fingers type what the mind knows they shouldn't. There's a space between a typo and rampant ignorance that leaves room for mistakes like that, and you're not clever pointing out something everyone with an 8th grade education knows.
Stop lying. Who cares about enormous debt if you're going to die? Plus there are usually state medical programs for poor people.
Second, pick a random hospital in the US and a random one in South America. The odds are so close to 100% that the South American hospital is far worse than the US one that it's not even funny.
Third, unless you're insane and don't want to avail yourself of them, it's almost impossible to have the underside of a bridge be your only option for shelter. Please, go find me someone living under a fucking bridge who isn't insane, or a complete and total drug or alcohol addict.
RE: Mexican healthcare. You're fucking joking, right? Mexican healthcare is shit, and poor people here in the US have far more options than poor people in Mexico.
A lot worse than you have it? Seriously? Get some fucking perspective. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't sound like things are going well and I absolutely empathize. A lot of people aren't that far off from losing a whole lot of their lifestyle.
That said - call me when you don't have a car to drive, cable TV, access to emergency room care, food, etc... Do you own a house? If so, sell it - move to an apartment.
Bad off is when you can't get food or shelter or emergency medical care. Anything above that is gravy and just something Americans seem to think we're all "entitled" to.
Right. You're comparing "Oh no, I'm broke!" to "Oh fuck, I live in a shithole 2nd borderline-3rd world country!". Give me a fucking break. If you're not totally retarded in the US you can get shelter, enough food to survive, and access to emergency health care with the best technology there is.
No, you're not going to get top tier cancer treatment without insurance or lots of money. You're not getting it anywhere in South America at all unless you're very rich.
In short, a dirt poor US citizen is better off than a lower-middle class (or below) person anywhere south of the US border.
Oddly, even the poorest US citizen has access to food, shelter, and far better health care than you do. So really your little diatribe falls a little flat.
What barrier, a free download barrier? Yeah, Christ - they might as well have locked them in an airtight, locked container and dropped them to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, amirite?
Jesus dude, did you just get done reading a high school debate book or something? None of what you posted makes any sense. I call your method of argument "Non Sequitur Appeal to Misused Logical Fallacies", I just haven't added it to the Wiki yet so dunces like you can misapply and mangle it.
The problem with your logic is that you pretend it's either or. I will play a fun game with good graphics more than a fun game with OK graphics, especially on my 65" TV. Also, you're not typical - most people have gotten bored with their Wii.
Right. "Ridiculous" - you keep using that word a lot, like you think it strengthens your argument. All that matters are sales. Let's see timely data on Wii console sales, and let's see current revenue from Wii content compared to Microsoft or Sony. It's 3/4 of the way to shit, and fast moving beyond to complete shit. And no fanboy here, I have a Wii. Like most people, though, I'm just not interested in playing it anymore.
The Wii got in at the _very_ end of the time when people would accept a console that uses ca 2001 technology, and it had pretty good success for a few years. But ultimately it's just too limited and primitive now. You'll shell out more for an Xbox+Kinect, but it's vastly superior in every way as a gaming platform and you have the Xbox Live market which seals the deal.
After all, you can post or download child porn or worse, I'm sure to the various copyright interested organizations, use them to download any of a multitude of apps to copy music.
There's no reason to think it will overtake iOS at this point, in fact it's not doing all that well. Conversely - it's amusing people think MS has no chance in the smartphone market now (same way people mocked Kinect not too long ago). Never count someone with that much money out completely.
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Yeah, because the professionals use x264, right? The quick sync encoder is quite good, actually, but yeah you can choose between an imperceptible difference in quality or an additional 100X time to do the encoding.
Yeah, because an ARM chip is so advanced. Finally, Intel can learn the advanced secrets of a customized ARM solution! AT LAST! [cue maniacal laughter]
The company's current line of chips are at best on architecturally on par with everyone else
Unrivaled bullshit. Their mobile chips - yes. Their normal desktop/server chips are well ahead of anyone else.
Yeah, you're confusing architecture with fabrication. Intel has the capacity to mass produce chips using the most advanced processes in the world. Intel will be fabricating Apple's chip, not designing it. And Intel's been excellent at power efficiency for the last several years, so maybe you were gone - have you been on the moon perhaps?
I hope this is a temporary stop-gap to give Intel time to stomp a mud hole in ARM's ass in a few years just like they did with the high end CPU makers. "Oh, no, Intel can never compete with Power, Alpha, SPARC, etc..". Riiight.
Also, AMD doesn't have fabs.
A bit facile, isn't that? $15 medicine, seriously? You think these companies spend billions on research and getting drugs through testing and that since it then costs them $15 to make, the medicine is worth $15? With regard to the pharmaceutical industry they just need good watchdogs and we should end allowing advertisements for prescription drugs in the US.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with corporations, but it seems it's brought out the usual silly anti-corporation crowd. This is about contract law, it could be anybody who has such a silly contract.
Yeah, just look at that thriving Xbox 360 pirate game environment.
With enough effort any DRM can be broken somehow. The only thing the content owner has to do is ensure that it's difficult and/or expensive enough to not be worth it.
And in case you didn't read the..summary, the camera is supposed to help provide a chain of evidence. Not sure why anyone would put "feature" in double quotes and act like nobody would buy a camera that supports this.
You're right, I was speaking from logic not from our implementation of law. Binding arbitration clauses are an abomination also, they're so ridiculously bad it amazes me they're treated the way they are.
So step one, remove binding arbitration from contract law. So now, just like you can't enforce a contract making someone your slave, you can't enforce a contract signing away someone's right to sue.
Step two, remove or drastically alter class action law.
Pay attention, this ruling was vis-a-vis class action. Furthermore no contract can prevent you from suing someone - worst case you go to arbitration, say "Nah", and proceed to sue.
Nothing stopping a jury/judge in an individual claim from laying out a hefty punitive judgment. If that couple won and got $50 in damages and $50k in punitive, probably 50000 more people would be lining up to get their money too. At that point AT&T might be begging for a class action.
Basically, lawyers love class action suits. Anything lawyers love is inherently evil - there's really not much you need to know or think about beyond that.
"Class action" should be stripped from our legal system, or drastically changed - it's bullshit.
Yeah.. no. People live longer, costs go up. But old people are unwilling to recognize these facts, so the ratio of people getting benefits to people providing the funds goes up and up. Therefore you either need more people paying in (which is why some asshats propose open borders or rampant births) or the people paying in pay more.
Haha, pretty funny your post got modded "Insightful" instead of "Funny". Not sure if you meant to be sarcastic, but you were de facto sarcastic and it's funny people really think that bullshit.
We do totally exist to perpetuate the Ponzi scheme that is America, and some people think that's right and proper.
Don't be a dickhole. If you asked him the difference between 'their' and 'there' I'm sure he knows and was educated on the difference. Sometimes the fingers type what the mind knows they shouldn't. There's a space between a typo and rampant ignorance that leaves room for mistakes like that, and you're not clever pointing out something everyone with an 8th grade education knows.
They're just a way for legal firms to make ridiculous amounts of money. They're an abomination.
Stop lying. Who cares about enormous debt if you're going to die? Plus there are usually state medical programs for poor people.
Second, pick a random hospital in the US and a random one in South America. The odds are so close to 100% that the South American hospital is far worse than the US one that it's not even funny.
Third, unless you're insane and don't want to avail yourself of them, it's almost impossible to have the underside of a bridge be your only option for shelter. Please, go find me someone living under a fucking bridge who isn't insane, or a complete and total drug or alcohol addict.
RE: Mexican healthcare. You're fucking joking, right? Mexican healthcare is shit, and poor people here in the US have far more options than poor people in Mexico.
A lot worse than you have it? Seriously? Get some fucking perspective. Don't get me wrong, it doesn't sound like things are going well and I absolutely empathize. A lot of people aren't that far off from losing a whole lot of their lifestyle.
That said - call me when you don't have a car to drive, cable TV, access to emergency room care, food, etc... Do you own a house? If so, sell it - move to an apartment.
Bad off is when you can't get food or shelter or emergency medical care. Anything above that is gravy and just something Americans seem to think we're all "entitled" to.
Right. You're comparing "Oh no, I'm broke!" to "Oh fuck, I live in a shithole 2nd borderline-3rd world country!". Give me a fucking break. If you're not totally retarded in the US you can get shelter, enough food to survive, and access to emergency health care with the best technology there is.
No, you're not going to get top tier cancer treatment without insurance or lots of money. You're not getting it anywhere in South America at all unless you're very rich.
In short, a dirt poor US citizen is better off than a lower-middle class (or below) person anywhere south of the US border.
Oddly, even the poorest US citizen has access to food, shelter, and far better health care than you do. So really your little diatribe falls a little flat.
What barrier, a free download barrier? Yeah, Christ - they might as well have locked them in an airtight, locked container and dropped them to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, amirite?
Jesus dude, did you just get done reading a high school debate book or something? None of what you posted makes any sense. I call your method of argument "Non Sequitur Appeal to Misused Logical Fallacies", I just haven't added it to the Wiki yet so dunces like you can misapply and mangle it.
The problem with your logic is that you pretend it's either or. I will play a fun game with good graphics more than a fun game with OK graphics, especially on my 65" TV. Also, you're not typical - most people have gotten bored with their Wii.
Right. "Ridiculous" - you keep using that word a lot, like you think it strengthens your argument. All that matters are sales. Let's see timely data on Wii console sales, and let's see current revenue from Wii content compared to Microsoft or Sony. It's 3/4 of the way to shit, and fast moving beyond to complete shit. And no fanboy here, I have a Wii. Like most people, though, I'm just not interested in playing it anymore.
The Wii got in at the _very_ end of the time when people would accept a console that uses ca 2001 technology, and it had pretty good success for a few years. But ultimately it's just too limited and primitive now. You'll shell out more for an Xbox+Kinect, but it's vastly superior in every way as a gaming platform and you have the Xbox Live market which seals the deal.
After all, you can post or download child porn or worse, I'm sure to the various copyright interested organizations, use them to download any of a multitude of apps to copy music.
There's no reason to think it will overtake iOS at this point, in fact it's not doing all that well. Conversely - it's amusing people think MS has no chance in the smartphone market now (same way people mocked Kinect not too long ago). Never count someone with that much money out completely.