I know this post is getting old but I wanted to follow up anyways. Is this the same situation you are referring to?
"Rambus has won a major case they've been fighting since the late 90's. Rambus worked its technology into the standards for SDRAM and DDR data transfer, then waited for the major players (Hynix, Micron and Nanya) to be heavily committed before revealing that it had patents on the technology. 'At issue is whether the developer of a speedy new memory technology deserved to be paid for its inventions, or whether the company misled memory chip makers. "I think they (the jurors) misapprehended what the standards-setting organizations are about and the absolute need for good faith," said Jared Bobrow, an outside attorney for Micron. Wednesday's verdict comes after a judgment against Hynix in 2006 that resulted in a $133 million award to Rambus, Lavelle said, and potentially clears the way for Rambus to collect on that verdict.'"
The linux drivers for nvidia suck too Really? I haven't had the same experience. I was very impressed last week as I plugged my box into my HDTV. As X booted (which was configured for the wrong resolution of my normal monitor) the NVidia logo splashed on my screen, spun around for a second and then X loaded at the perfect 1920x1080 resolution.
I've never seen any driver for Linux adjust the resolution on the fly, I've always had to change values around in Xorg.conf, but NVidia did it.
(Americans, for fairly obvious reasons I think -- isolation and power -- are the rudest first worlders about people who don't speak their native language. Try traveling as an American. People hate me everywhere I go, as if I personally authorized every terrible decision my country's leaders have made.
They make it out as if I'm the one making close-minded, stereotypical decisions.
So seagate, are they violating your patent? If so, proof please, if not, you yield all rights in case they are found to at a later date I think you may be confusing patents with trademarks. Trademarks must be actively defended, where I believe patents on the other hand can be sat on for awhile.
My guess is, most people wouldn't care whether you shared their internet access or not. I sure don't. If my video games don't lag then I don't mind what you do with it. 7 megabits is more than enough to share, but if I have to log into my router to see who's soaking it up then they get the boot.
Well, that cuts down on atmospheric particulates, which increases the amount of solar energy reaching the earth and causes a net INCREASE in temperature. Solar energy is trapped in the atmosphere due to the fact the solar rays come in from the sun and start bouncing all over the place, never getting a chance to escape. Cleaner air would allow for more sunlight to hit the earth surface more directly, but it would also allow for more energy to bounce right off back into space without being trapped.
I want to own my music. Then stick to CDs or unencumbered MP3s. The idea of a subscription service is that you keep paying for it to hear all the music you want. You would end up canceling your subscription the moment you downloaded as much music as your hard drive could hold and that would be the end of it.
What would be ideal is if a single blu-ray discs had both an H.264 and a lower quality MPEG-2/mpeg-4 version of the video. If I am watching on a laptop screen (hooking the laptop to a HDTV would be another story), I don't really need to see 1080p resolution. Maybe someone can invent a disc with less capacity that stores lower quality video?
Sarcasm aside, I agree there really is no need to see 1080p on a laptop screen. I really question why anyone would want to do that, but I suppose it beats the heck out of buying two different formats of the same movie.
What surprised me the most about reading through the PDFs is that Microsoft caved to Intel. First off, I'm surprised that Microsoft caves to anyone, let alone a chip manufacturer. More interesting is the way they back pedaled on their promises to OEM about what kinds of hardware it would take to achieve the "Vista Ready" logo.
HP and other OEMs spent a lot of money putting in newer, more expensive WDDM-compatible video cards because they were required for the "Vista Ready" logo. Microsoft promised with a 100% guarantee to HP, that they would not regret making these investments because there was no way Microsoft was going to allow crappy Intel chipsets to get the "Vista Ready" logo. After enough pressure from Intel (and far after HP and other OEMs made pricey investments) Microsoft apparently caved and reduced the requirements for their logo. 915 and 945-based chipsets are apparently suffering from horrible performance and customers are pissed. Now all the OEMs are feeling cheated as well because they met Microsoft's initial demands, only to watch cheaper and slower chipsets make the same grade while offering terrible performance.
As someone who tried very hard to study law before attempting to enter law school, I learned that almost all court decisions fall back to previous court decisions, commonly known as case law. It was prohibitively expensive for me to access some (all) of the sites listed in TFS, which was the first step of many that has since caused me to lose faith in the way laws are implemented today.
Thank you Carl Malamud for doing your part in providing public access to crucial knowledge about our laws!
I caught your other post where the problem was described a bit more clearly and now I understand what was going on. The way I understood your original post was different from what you experienced, as in "FTP tunneled through VPN but HTTP would not."
I still assert that Comcast is unable to selectively filter content from an encrypted stream without destroying it, but in your case they were preventing one from ever being established. Just a misunderstanding that you already cleared up in another post, but I could have done without the troll's reply.
You are trying to tell us they did not and could not block UDP port 500?
And that noone could possibly do that? Where did I say anything about port blocking?
I know slashdot doesn't often RTFA and on occasion doesn't even read the summary, but you've hit a new low by not even reading the post you reply to!
That's really cool, we could really use a Twitter-like enjabered XMMP server here. It will revolutionise computing! Bonus points for spelling the acronym wrong.
You can end up a wholly different person. And even if others around you don't make the connection, you may find some day years later that you've lost yourself as a person. Such goes the road of life, my friend.
Last time I checked, AFee&Fee charged $0.03 per kilobyte of web data consumed if you aren't on a plan. At this rate, SMS is still ridiculously expensive even by their own standards.
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Dude, didn't you RTFS? She's 75!
"Open" is the keyword here. It's not like they are going to be submitting binary patches or that we can't review the source code they submit.
I'd also like to point out the SELinux project, will you abandon Linux now too?
You should really adjust that tin foil, it's messing with the signals that are already inside your head.
"That's why I get my news only from objective sources like Faux News."
I've never seen any driver for Linux adjust the resolution on the fly, I've always had to change values around in Xorg.conf, but NVidia did it.
"Being geeked" is a term my friends use to describe someone that is very high on drugs.
Kids these days..
They make it out as if I'm the one making close-minded, stereotypical decisions.
..who has never paid for any music from iTunes, this is one hook that I would consider biting (besides the hardware I'm already stuck with)
Sarcasm aside, I agree there really is no need to see 1080p on a laptop screen. I really question why anyone would want to do that, but I suppose it beats the heck out of buying two different formats of the same movie.
What surprised me the most about reading through the PDFs is that Microsoft caved to Intel. First off, I'm surprised that Microsoft caves to anyone, let alone a chip manufacturer. More interesting is the way they back pedaled on their promises to OEM about what kinds of hardware it would take to achieve the "Vista Ready" logo.
HP and other OEMs spent a lot of money putting in newer, more expensive WDDM-compatible video cards because they were required for the "Vista Ready" logo. Microsoft promised with a 100% guarantee to HP, that they would not regret making these investments because there was no way Microsoft was going to allow crappy Intel chipsets to get the "Vista Ready" logo. After enough pressure from Intel (and far after HP and other OEMs made pricey investments) Microsoft apparently caved and reduced the requirements for their logo. 915 and 945-based chipsets are apparently suffering from horrible performance and customers are pissed. Now all the OEMs are feeling cheated as well because they met Microsoft's initial demands, only to watch cheaper and slower chipsets make the same grade while offering terrible performance.
Don't attempt reaching domain names that don't exist. Who cares where they take you when you won't end up at your intended destination anyways?
It's getting too thick.
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A very sad story, indeed. It also spooked me out a bit, that guy has the same street address as my own...
Double paranoia calls for doubly thick tin foil. I heard I can pick some up on eBay...
As someone who tried very hard to study law before attempting to enter law school, I learned that almost all court decisions fall back to previous court decisions, commonly known as case law. It was prohibitively expensive for me to access some (all) of the sites listed in TFS, which was the first step of many that has since caused me to lose faith in the way laws are implemented today.
Thank you Carl Malamud for doing your part in providing public access to crucial knowledge about our laws!
I caught your other post where the problem was described a bit more clearly and now I understand what was going on. The way I understood your original post was different from what you experienced, as in "FTP tunneled through VPN but HTTP would not."
I still assert that Comcast is unable to selectively filter content from an encrypted stream without destroying it, but in your case they were preventing one from ever being established. Just a misunderstanding that you already cleared up in another post, but I could have done without the troll's reply.
I know slashdot doesn't often RTFA and on occasion doesn't even read the summary, but you've hit a new low by not even reading the post you reply to!
VPN tunnels are encrypted, Comcast or anyone else cannot selectively filter content out of an encrypted stream.
I think you are blaming Comcast for a problem they did not (and could not) have created.
When I "disabled" Facebook a few months ago, I pasted that exact quote into their comment box that asked why I was leaving.
Try it, you won't regret it.
Last time I checked, AFee&Fee charged $0.03 per kilobyte of web data consumed if you aren't on a plan. At this rate, SMS is still ridiculously expensive even by their own standards.