Don't speak to me with such condescending language. I am not your friend. I'm sick of you retards parroting tired memes instead of engaging in legitimate discussion.
I have nothing against France (only some French), but I was warmly hoping that Japan gets the project. In my view, Japan is so perfectly suited, technology and mentality-wise, to pull this off.
Still, France is OK, because they are one of the countries with highest % of nuclear energy. So much so, in fact, that they make a lot of good money exporting it.
And get this: one of the largest importers (the largest?) offrench electric energy is Germany, who have outlawed and disbanded their nuclear plants due to Green misguided pressure, and are now
a) polluting themselves with coal plants, which actually produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants of same energy output (not to mention other pollutants).
b) paying for el. energy to France, which is produced by nuclear plants which are close enough to Germany, that if a meltdown happened, they would be just as affected!
There is something humorous in all this.
I just can't imagine this. I've already got a mountain of wires, with my 7.1 home theater system. I've got about half of those speakers, biwired, with 25 foot length Monster Cables. That, in addition to the tangle of other wires needed to make this mess all work.
I keep looking at my room, and thinking about what it would look like with almost twice the amount of wires I already have, and almost twice the number of speakers. Maybe I'll have to move some furniture out. Heh Heh. And my Denon 7.1 reciever weighs in at around 62 lbs. Guess with a new 13.1 reciever, I might have to re-enforce the floor to hold the added weight. Heavy duty cabinet to. And with all the added heat this monster will put out, maybe some more air conditioning too.
I don't know what everyone else will think about 13.1, but it kind of seems like overkill to me. I already, at times, wonder if there is really that much advantage in a 6.1, or 7.1 system, over a 5.1 system.
I guess if you spend money to buy all those speakers, it BETTER sound better, or at least you've going to tell yourself it does. Heh Heh.
There's a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to wrongdoing by Intel. But there's a big gap between us all 'knowing' that Intel is engaging in arm-twisting and proving it beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law. Some of the points mentioned in the linked complaint will be very difficult to prove unless AMD has direct, clear evidence.
I think the timing of this complaint is interesting as well. AMD's latest processors have a technical and price-point edge over Intel, hurting a potential Intel argument that customers buy Intel for its "technological superiority". It's profitable, so it has the money to spend on the case. (And trust me, this will take some ca$$$h.) Last, AMD has proven itself to be a viable choice from both a business and technical perspective. This is important for executives called in this case -- they may be a little more willing to testify as witnesses against Intel if they feel they have a "backup plan" (AMD) should Intel try to threaten/punish their business for testifying. (Which is all done very politely and business-like, I'm not talking about TV/Movie style drama with dressed-in-black characters showing up with guns.)
One good thing about AMD CPUs... I can select AMD and it will be transparent to me as a user. Thus I am free to choose my CPU based on price and other considerations, if I can find one offered.
The Microsoft monopoly is entirely different. Locked in by habit to Windows, most users have a very difficult time switching to Linux. It is also nearly impossible to buy a mainstream computer without Windows. Now that is a monopoly!
All Intel users should be very thankful for AMD. Just think how much Intel chips would cost, if not for AMD. Likewise, Windows users should be very thankful for Linux. Without Linux, Microsoft (which has never innovated in its history) would not even have to play catch-up and improve its product (see IE vs. Firefox).
So, I say go AMD and Linux (I use both) and you should agree even if you use WinTel.
I wonder if situations like this will ever come about in future, where global patents will ENSURE monopolistic practice, legitimised through legislation. No appeals or crying foul against the sort of practices Intel and Microsoft appear to favor, only the patent holder gets protection.
Consider a 1980's where Intel had patented-down the hatches on the x86 architecture - there'd be no AMD, there'd by not Cyrix, Winchip, Transmeta, VIA etc....at least not making the same architecture. Maybe this would have been a good thing, the x86 bastard-child architecture we've all ended up with is nothing to be proud of.
It's not too late for CPU diversity, come on AMD time to make something new!
Why don't we share free music instead? Pirating music is equivalent to pirating Windows XP - why do it when OpenBSD is available instead? There's a lot available under the CC.
Why has the DarkNet paper gotten this much attention? My guess is that there are two reasons. First, the paper was written by guys from Microsoft Research, and Microsoft has previously taken a pro-DRM position. The paper includes a standard disclaimer saying that it is the opinion of the authors and not of Microsoft. But still it reflects a change. In past years, conference presentations from industrial researchers, both at Microsoft and elsewhere, have shied away from anti-DRM statements, so as to keep their employers happy (although vigorous anti-DRM language could often be heard at dinner afterwards). So non-techies will put more weight on the paper because of its authors affiliation.
All this effort to develop technology to determine your location is great if the reason for finding your location is because you're lost. But, otherwise, it seems like another case of the technology industry developing a new market for devices of questionable usage. Throw legitimate privacy issues into the mix - generally in the US at least and certainly elsewhere - the thought of some anonymous entity determining my location is positively horrifying.
I can't help but think that this is one of those situations wherein the instrument precedes any of the truly challenging work of determining sensible, useful applications. (If one more dull-headed marketing guru uses the example of Starbucks ringing a phone as I walk by..)
Why is it so difficult to simply self-identify my location rather than relying on the sketchy availability of GPS satellites or databases of WiFi APs and doing all that trigonometry. Here I am standing at 44th and Broadway, based on my profile and previous activities, give me some insights into other activities in the area? Or, are any of my friends within 6 blocks of me?
PDPal was a project that provided a map and allowed you to target your location - easy-peasy. Dodgeball goes a light year beyond this, using technology that nearly everyone has in their pocket - a cell phone. No GPS, no WiFi positioning hacks, just a cell phone SMS.
Is it because discovering application proves so difficult that the cart, burdened with gizmos, leads the applications cart?
I think that the present lack of comments on this article, combined with the subject matter of this article, speaks volumes about the so-called Slashdot community.
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Don't speak to me with such condescending language. I am not your friend. I'm sick of you retards parroting tired memes instead of engaging in legitimate discussion.
"internets history"? You must be a fucking idiot.
Makes us more liable than BSD (due to the GPL) but not particularly better? SIGN ME UP
You wouldn't like it if someone broke into your workshop and took your day's work.
1) They did. The TCP stack. 2) There isn't anything else worth taking from *BSD. They're years behind even Linux - they JUST got working SMP.
I have nothing against France (only some French), but I was warmly hoping that Japan gets the project. In my view, Japan is so perfectly suited, technology and mentality-wise, to pull this off. Still, France is OK, because they are one of the countries with highest % of nuclear energy. So much so, in fact, that they make a lot of good money exporting it. And get this: one of the largest importers (the largest?) offrench electric energy is Germany, who have outlawed and disbanded their nuclear plants due to Green misguided pressure, and are now a) polluting themselves with coal plants, which actually produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants of same energy output (not to mention other pollutants). b) paying for el. energy to France, which is produced by nuclear plants which are close enough to Germany, that if a meltdown happened, they would be just as affected! There is something humorous in all this.
I just can't imagine this. I've already got a mountain of wires, with my 7.1 home theater system. I've got about half of those speakers, biwired, with 25 foot length Monster Cables. That, in addition to the tangle of other wires needed to make this mess all work.
I keep looking at my room, and thinking about what it would look like with almost twice the amount of wires I already have, and almost twice the number of speakers. Maybe I'll have to move some furniture out. Heh Heh. And my Denon 7.1 reciever weighs in at around 62 lbs. Guess with a new 13.1 reciever, I might have to re-enforce the floor to hold the added weight. Heavy duty cabinet to. And with all the added heat this monster will put out, maybe some more air conditioning too.
I don't know what everyone else will think about 13.1, but it kind of seems like overkill to me. I already, at times, wonder if there is really that much advantage in a 6.1, or 7.1 system, over a 5.1 system.
I guess if you spend money to buy all those speakers, it BETTER sound better, or at least you've going to tell yourself it does. Heh Heh.
There's a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to wrongdoing by Intel. But there's a big gap between us all 'knowing' that Intel is engaging in arm-twisting and proving it beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law. Some of the points mentioned in the linked complaint will be very difficult to prove unless AMD has direct, clear evidence.
I think the timing of this complaint is interesting as well. AMD's latest processors have a technical and price-point edge over Intel, hurting a potential Intel argument that customers buy Intel for its "technological superiority". It's profitable, so it has the money to spend on the case. (And trust me, this will take some ca$$$h.) Last, AMD has proven itself to be a viable choice from both a business and technical perspective. This is important for executives called in this case -- they may be a little more willing to testify as witnesses against Intel if they feel they have a "backup plan" (AMD) should Intel try to threaten/punish their business for testifying. (Which is all done very politely and business-like, I'm not talking about TV/Movie style drama with dressed-in-black characters showing up with guns.)
One good thing about AMD CPUs... I can select AMD and it will be transparent to me as a user. Thus I am free to choose my CPU based on price and other considerations, if I can find one offered.
The Microsoft monopoly is entirely different. Locked in by habit to Windows, most users have a very difficult time switching to Linux. It is also nearly impossible to buy a mainstream computer without Windows. Now that is a monopoly!
All Intel users should be very thankful for AMD. Just think how much Intel chips would cost, if not for AMD. Likewise, Windows users should be very thankful for Linux. Without Linux, Microsoft (which has never innovated in its history) would not even have to play catch-up and improve its product (see IE vs. Firefox).
So, I say go AMD and Linux (I use both) and you should agree even if you use WinTel.
I wonder if situations like this will ever come about in future, where global patents will ENSURE monopolistic practice, legitimised through legislation. No appeals or crying foul against the sort of practices Intel and Microsoft appear to favor, only the patent holder gets protection. Consider a 1980's where Intel had patented-down the hatches on the x86 architecture - there'd be no AMD, there'd by not Cyrix, Winchip, Transmeta, VIA etc....at least not making the same architecture. Maybe this would have been a good thing, the x86 bastard-child architecture we've all ended up with is nothing to be proud of. It's not too late for CPU diversity, come on AMD time to make something new!
Why don't we share free music instead? Pirating music is equivalent to pirating Windows XP - why do it when OpenBSD is available instead? There's a lot available under the CC.
Why has the DarkNet paper gotten this much attention? My guess is that there are two reasons. First, the paper was written by guys from Microsoft Research, and Microsoft has previously taken a pro-DRM position. The paper includes a standard disclaimer saying that it is the opinion of the authors and not of Microsoft. But still it reflects a change. In past years, conference presentations from industrial researchers, both at Microsoft and elsewhere, have shied away from anti-DRM statements, so as to keep their employers happy (although vigorous anti-DRM language could often be heard at dinner afterwards). So non-techies will put more weight on the paper because of its authors affiliation.
It would be necessary to abolish them!
All this effort to develop technology to determine your location is great if the reason for finding your location is because you're lost. But, otherwise, it seems like another case of the technology industry developing a new market for devices of questionable usage. Throw legitimate privacy issues into the mix - generally in the US at least and certainly elsewhere - the thought of some anonymous entity determining my location is positively horrifying. I can't help but think that this is one of those situations wherein the instrument precedes any of the truly challenging work of determining sensible, useful applications. (If one more dull-headed marketing guru uses the example of Starbucks ringing a phone as I walk by..) Why is it so difficult to simply self-identify my location rather than relying on the sketchy availability of GPS satellites or databases of WiFi APs and doing all that trigonometry. Here I am standing at 44th and Broadway, based on my profile and previous activities, give me some insights into other activities in the area? Or, are any of my friends within 6 blocks of me? PDPal was a project that provided a map and allowed you to target your location - easy-peasy. Dodgeball goes a light year beyond this, using technology that nearly everyone has in their pocket - a cell phone. No GPS, no WiFi positioning hacks, just a cell phone SMS. Is it because discovering application proves so difficult that the cart, burdened with gizmos, leads the applications cart?
I think that the present lack of comments on this article, combined with the subject matter of this article, speaks volumes about the so-called Slashdot community.