I'll be honest with you, I come from the "I bought it, I'll fiddle with it if I like" school of thought. I still find it sad that hacking your hardware, even if what you're hacking is the hardware's (eprom/flash/whatever), is something that can be remotely considered illegal, even if you are in error about your opinion (and I wouldn't be surprised to see the opinion tested in court if too many people start turning their GeForces into Quadros).
All Nvidia would need to do to avoid this is to actually make the Quadro different in a way that can't be spoofed... but it's far easier to just say "No, don't do that, or we'll spank you!"
Litigation to protect a bad business decision manages to just get under my skin - not that we've even heard a hint that this is going to happen, mind you, perhaps Nvidia will just do exactly what I've suggested. I've just gotten a bit gunshy about trusting corporations.
There's a slight dichotomy in your statements. In your earlier post, you stated that you don't have time to play an MMO but then you state in the above post that you get two hours of entertainment a day via NetFlix. Just how many hours a day do you think you'd have to play an MMO for it to be "worthwhile?"
Not being interested is fine, and more power to you, but you're introducing some flaws in your argument that started with the premise that you don't have enough time to play for you to consider it worthwhile.
How bad must someone's income be for $15 a month to be something that breaks the bank. I keep hearing this argument, like paying $15 a month is not only a great hardship, but that this is enough money that the subscriber has the right to expect special treatment.
Meanwhile, the average office worker spends twice that on mere coffee every month.
The problem with this idea is that it always feels like somebody is drooling all over my inbox when they end their lines with twiddles.
Some of the IT staff over at Alaska Airlines for some reason have a cultural standard of twiddles instead of dashes in certain cases, and I keep thinking that all that spit can't be good for the electronics.
If your idea were to be implemented, I'd start to wonder why the Alaska Airlines folks are so sarcastic that they can't even say "hi" without a touch of sarcasm.
That simple... because the geek community has a very major issue with fanboyismm, and those that go to geek conventions are demonstrating a particularly strong fanboy streak in general. It doesn't really take coercion to get it, but I still wouldn't trust their opinions in this matter.
Did you use Paypal before eBay bought it? Their status as an evil entity predates the eBay purchase by quite some time. We kept expecting Paypal to improve when eBay bought it, but instead it was just more of the same.
You forget that the value that is bid is then how the IP is taxed... so bidding one hundred billion trillion zomg bbq dollars would mean that you would then pay taxes on an IP worth that value (and since it's an imaginary number, the IRS would probably get rather creative about it... heh).
I had a compiler on CP/M which generated assembly and sent the output to an assembler. I don't think GCC works that way. It probably generates machine code directly. Maybe it has a symbolic "assembly" layer inside.
To be fair, you're picking nits... most folks mean both assembly and machine code when they say either. Yes, there is a difference... us old school demo coders used to write our code in a monitor, and I'm sure we weren't the only masochist coders around. However, it's a pretty fine point and one that's probably not worth being terribly picky about these days.
While the above comment may have been flagged as "Funny," I must say that there's something to what he says... I'm too lazy to dig up the specific articles, but folks have gotten in trouble in the past for doing just that (generally their school).
Funny... I work in the game industry as an indie too, and my own experience has not been at all the same as yours. In my own experience, the indie market is better now than it has ever been. It's just a matter of understanding what the market wants.
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We all know that labels screw artists and DRM is bad and blah blah blah, but what happens if your favorite action films cost $50 million to make, but suddenly all of the customers have "digital content wants to be free" philosophies?
This argument has no basis in reality, though... people are not going to universally stop paying to go to the movie theatre, and they're not going to stop buying DVDs.
I remember another industry that piracy was going to kill. It used to be called the Video Game industry, and man, were they cool. When we were kids, we used to play the darned things all the time. Unfortunately, rampant piracy put them completely out of business and there are no more video games.
Of course, in reality what's happened is that the video game industry has become one of the biggest modern growth industries there is... and you know what? People are still pirating the games too.
I'm not coming out for or against piracy here, but when we have these discussions, we should at least try to look at things from a realistic perspective instead of dogmatic positions.
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Must be why I don't like any sitcoms, with what's considered one of the good ones.
He's talking to you, Bob.
I'll be honest with you, I come from the "I bought it, I'll fiddle with it if I like" school of thought. I still find it sad that hacking your hardware, even if what you're hacking is the hardware's (eprom/flash/whatever), is something that can be remotely considered illegal, even if you are in error about your opinion (and I wouldn't be surprised to see the opinion tested in court if too many people start turning their GeForces into Quadros).
All Nvidia would need to do to avoid this is to actually make the Quadro different in a way that can't be spoofed... but it's far easier to just say "No, don't do that, or we'll spank you!"
Litigation to protect a bad business decision manages to just get under my skin - not that we've even heard a hint that this is going to happen, mind you, perhaps Nvidia will just do exactly what I've suggested. I've just gotten a bit gunshy about trusting corporations.
It is a very sad statement of modern affairs when any kind of hack to your own hardware can be considered piracy.
This is such a fantastic analogy.
I think shopping in a nice muscle car or even a ricejob would be a lot more exciting than a Formula 1.
Yup... price of a nice GeForce and the time it takes to hack the identifier as described here.
There's a slight dichotomy in your statements. In your earlier post, you stated that you don't have time to play an MMO but then you state in the above post that you get two hours of entertainment a day via NetFlix. Just how many hours a day do you think you'd have to play an MMO for it to be "worthwhile?"
Not being interested is fine, and more power to you, but you're introducing some flaws in your argument that started with the premise that you don't have enough time to play for you to consider it worthwhile.
How bad must someone's income be for $15 a month to be something that breaks the bank. I keep hearing this argument, like paying $15 a month is not only a great hardship, but that this is enough money that the subscriber has the right to expect special treatment.
Meanwhile, the average office worker spends twice that on mere coffee every month.
The problem with this idea is that it always feels like somebody is drooling all over my inbox when they end their lines with twiddles.
Some of the IT staff over at Alaska Airlines for some reason have a cultural standard of twiddles instead of dashes in certain cases, and I keep thinking that all that spit can't be good for the electronics.
If your idea were to be implemented, I'd start to wonder why the Alaska Airlines folks are so sarcastic that they can't even say "hi" without a touch of sarcasm.
Gah! I wasn't trying to be insightful, I was trying to be funny!
Sorry, weren't my intent.
I see that my having left off the smiley made the tongue-in-cheek nature of my post a little unclear.
That simple... because the geek community has a very major issue with fanboyismm, and those that go to geek conventions are demonstrating a particularly strong fanboy streak in general. It doesn't really take coercion to get it, but I still wouldn't trust their opinions in this matter.
Did you use Paypal before eBay bought it? Their status as an evil entity predates the eBay purchase by quite some time. We kept expecting Paypal to improve when eBay bought it, but instead it was just more of the same.
I've read a couple of articles about it now, and they've both said $300 but the summary says $600... what gives?
You forget that the value that is bid is then how the IP is taxed... so bidding one hundred billion trillion zomg bbq dollars would mean that you would then pay taxes on an IP worth that value (and since it's an imaginary number, the IRS would probably get rather creative about it... heh).
I had a compiler on CP/M which generated assembly and sent the output to an assembler. I don't think GCC works that way. It probably generates machine code directly. Maybe it has a symbolic "assembly" layer inside.
To be fair, you're picking nits... most folks mean both assembly and machine code when they say either. Yes, there is a difference... us old school demo coders used to write our code in a monitor, and I'm sure we weren't the only masochist coders around. However, it's a pretty fine point and one that's probably not worth being terribly picky about these days.
While the above comment may have been flagged as "Funny," I must say that there's something to what he says... I'm too lazy to dig up the specific articles, but folks have gotten in trouble in the past for doing just that (generally their school).
It's not quite Speedtree yet, but given time it could be. I can't help but imagine it's going to have a less expensive license. heh.
Funny... I work in the game industry as an indie too, and my own experience has not been at all the same as yours. In my own experience, the indie market is better now than it has ever been. It's just a matter of understanding what the market wants.
We all know that labels screw artists and DRM is bad and blah blah blah, but what happens if your favorite action films cost $50 million to make, but suddenly all of the customers have "digital content wants to be free" philosophies?
This argument has no basis in reality, though... people are not going to universally stop paying to go to the movie theatre, and they're not going to stop buying DVDs.
I remember another industry that piracy was going to kill. It used to be called the Video Game industry, and man, were they cool. When we were kids, we used to play the darned things all the time. Unfortunately, rampant piracy put them completely out of business and there are no more video games.
Of course, in reality what's happened is that the video game industry has become one of the biggest modern growth industries there is... and you know what? People are still pirating the games too.
I'm not coming out for or against piracy here, but when we have these discussions, we should at least try to look at things from a realistic perspective instead of dogmatic positions.
Maybe so, but when twenty of them are pointed in your face, you'll think twice about that hijacking plot you were planning on participating in.
Like that's ever meant anything on slashdot, or the rest of the internet for that matter.
that nobody gives a damn about Blu-Ray. heheheheh