And copyright laws that are ENTIRELY in the favor of the artist/corporation and extending the length to near infinite levels means THEY are stealing from us, the public domain.
This is just taking back what they stole.
Thanks for playing the "copyright infringement is piracy because it sounds so much more evil".
There are discussions and evidence that Nvidia disables multi-core PhysX processing , most likely to make its hardware-based implementation look better.
The "official" excuse is that it's "up to the developers to enable it"... but if Nvidia is paying them... then it only makes sense they wouldn't allow multi-core software implementations as that would make their hw less desirable.
PhysX is the GLide of 21st century, except it offers much less and performs poorly (even on high end hardware).
Nvidia is very anti-competitive and has been for a very long time.
The recent "making physx stop working when AMD gfx card is present" is just one of the more public outings of their unethical behavior.
I wish someone would expose all of their shenanigans and anti-competitive practices so people can realize how badly these things affect the industry and consumers (ugh, hate that word).
The most recent thing I read about their practices is from the upcoming PC game, Just Cause 2. There's a trailer showing off Nvidia-only effects...(something which is dead standard DirectX code) and artificially blocking out AMD/others from getting the benefits. The Batman Arkham Asylam scandal was one more people may recall. They claim (and their users/shills) that TWIMTBP is just "marketing"... more like bribery and blocking out the competition. They've been caught on many occasions but the public rarely sees anything negative about them.
Nvidia is the Intel/Microsoft of the video card industry but unlike them, isn't quite as dominant (thankfully for us) but they still do a hell of a lot of damage. (The Jupiter of the computer industry... too small to become a sun but still an 800 quadrillion ton gorilla).
I've stopped buying Nvidia cards since the Geforce 2. At that time for performance reasons but since then I vote with my wallet and let others know to support fair and legal competition.
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Actually, quite the opposite.
Short term, a few people are crushed/killed but long term it's the only way to win in a system of "lesser evil/greater evil".
And copyright laws that are ENTIRELY in the favor of the artist/corporation and extending the length to near infinite levels means THEY are stealing from us, the public domain.
This is just taking back what they stole.
Thanks for playing the "copyright infringement is piracy because it sounds so much more evil".
Are they really independents or are they MPAA's "indie" studios? You know, to prevent legitimate competition and keep their stranglehold tight.
Sort of like how MS has proxies that they use to achieve their goals without showing that they're involved?
Any device that can play Bribe-Ray (guess how they won the format war), HAS to implement HDCP, thereby being infected with DRM.
Does Apple software support BR? If so, they have joined the esteemed ranks of Microsoft. Apple in Swahili means "vendor of artificial limitations".
Sony, MS, Apple (there are others, just being brief) : anti-consumer in their own respective ways.
And mirrors will become "Digital Circumvention Tools"...
How about software?
Should you be able to buy a disc with software on it and use it on any device, including those which the vendor does not approve?
Thank god that most of the world's users use WINDOWS addresses...
Open source and monopolists shouldn't mix.
You're a little too late for that.
PR people are the lawyers of the 21st century (20th if you're keeping count).
They already have a name for it...
It's called a False Flag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
And you can feel good about not supporting a monopolist.
There are discussions and evidence that Nvidia disables multi-core PhysX processing , most likely to make its hardware-based implementation look better.
http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+disable+multi-core+physx
http://www.bing.com/search?q=nvidia+multi-core+physx
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=nvidia+disable+multi-core+physx
The "official" excuse is that it's "up to the developers to enable it"... but if Nvidia is paying them... then it only makes sense they wouldn't allow multi-core software implementations as that would make their hw less desirable.
PhysX is the GLide of 21st century, except it offers much less and performs poorly (even on high end hardware).
Open standards are the way to go.
Penguins and monopolists go together like.... oil and water.
Nvidia is very anti-competitive and has been for a very long time.
The recent "making physx stop working when AMD gfx card is present" is just one of the more public outings of their unethical behavior.
I wish someone would expose all of their shenanigans and anti-competitive practices so people can realize how badly these things affect the industry and consumers (ugh, hate that word).
The most recent thing I read about their practices is from the upcoming PC game, Just Cause 2. There's a trailer showing off Nvidia-only effects ...(something which is dead standard DirectX code) and artificially blocking out AMD/others from getting the benefits. The Batman Arkham Asylam scandal was one more people may recall. They claim (and their users/shills) that TWIMTBP is just "marketing"... more like bribery and blocking out the competition. They've been caught on many occasions but the public rarely sees anything negative about them.
Nvidia is the Intel/Microsoft of the video card industry but unlike them, isn't quite as dominant (thankfully for us) but they still do a hell of a lot of damage. (The Jupiter of the computer industry... too small to become a sun but still an 800 quadrillion ton gorilla).
I've stopped buying Nvidia cards since the Geforce 2. At that time for performance reasons but since then I vote with my wallet and let others know to support fair and legal competition.
Take a look at Intel and Nvidia if you like watching criminals.
You mean Satan phone.
Jesus wouldn't impose DRM and the evils of lock-in on his customers.
Superfetch can be turned off... it's implemented as a service and is easily disabled.
since the 80's when they sued Tengen and Galoob. Both for reasons not relating to "piracy" (or as people in the know call it, copyright infringement).
You know what would have been funny? If GIMP had been named ImageStore.
Sounds like you're voting with your wallet...
Please call it "crippled content".
Thanks,
How about you search the web instead of "google"ing it... just a thought.
HD-DVD and Bluray : a lose, lose proposition.
How about that $ony is a member of both the RIAA and the MPAA?
As I keep saying, there's far more than 1 evil empire.
That's what monopolists are for.