I suspect it's not about what nVidia licensed, but what they didn't license. The binary blob is a huge mass of code, just given the size and what it does, and the sheer number of graphics-related patents out there, it's a fair bet they're infringing on something.
You'll call it "luxury" or "desperation", depending on your bank balance.
In 15 years, if you're still in bed at 7:30, it's because you're unemployed. The salaried workers have been in their cubes since 6 AM, and will be there until 6 PM.
Yes, Iraq supposedly bought 4000+ Playstation 2s to model nuclear detonations, there was at least one slashdot story about it.
Of course, if you believe what the western press reported about Iraqi weapons programs in that era, I have a very nice bridge and 400 kilos of yellowcake Uranium to sell you...
"$2500+ for a Mac Pro desktop computer, what the fuck? "
You're comparing Apples to grapes putting a Mac Pro up against $400 Best Buy specials in the "desktop computer" category. Spec out a Dell Precision with the same Xeon 6535 processor, 1TB hard drive, and 6GB of RAM. The base Mac Pro is cheaper.
Oh the internet armchair libertarian brigade. Even when it's private enterprise infringing someone's rights, they rant about the government.
The "we don't have a license" angle is a diversion. This is all about Stratasys PR department not wanting a product they market to creative types to be linked in the public mind with the sort of firearms neckbeards that print AR lowers in their garages.
He's right about Romney, but given the constant trickle of 'Torvalds calls $person a $profanity $epithet' stories on/., I think we could save a lot of time if we just assume that 'f***ing moron' is the default state of humanity in his mind and confine reporting what he says about other people to the times when he doesn't call anyone rude names.
There is literally nothing that people "taking more interest" could have do to change the outcome of that trial. Obsessively following groklaw isn't going to reform patent law, and complaining on the internet is not activism.
Most internal web apps run just fine on IE7, 8 and 9 too.
Yes, they mostly work fine on IE8 or Firefox or Chrome, but the "supported client configuration" is IE6. Woe unto thee if you deviate from the supported path in a business setting.
Hostnames stay with function (whether you use creative names like "ordmantell" or boring-but-obvious codes like "sql_payroll_london" is up to you) for the life of that function, and asset tags stay with the hardware for the life of the hardware. Why is this so difficult for some geeks to grok?
Sweet. At last we've found a way to combine the inconvenience of finding a merchant that sells something you want and accepts Bitcoins with the inconvenience of finding a merchant that sells something you want and accepts non Visa/MC/Discover/Amex cards!
Wages, did not always go down, they went down in areas where labour could be eventually automated away, but they went UP where more specialised skills were needed. Henry Ford didn't allow unions in his factories, but he did double the wages of his employees in order to retain talent, he double the wages, paying the most in industry (5 dollars a day or 1.25 ounces of gold per week). He also cut the working week to 5 days and cut the hours to 8 per day.
And if the CEO of any public company tried that now, he would be out on his ass (sans golden parachute) an hour after his first quarterly report.
Amtrak has one roll-on-roll-off train, appropriately called the Auto Train. It runs from just outside DC to Orlando.
Unfortunately, everywhere else the policy on bringing your own vehicle seems to be "We'll transport the disassembled pieces of your bicycle (as long as they're in an approved cardboard container), but we won't like it."
Do you realise that throughout 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century (before the Fed was set up) the prices for consumer goods and services CONSTANTLY WENT DOWN?
So did wages, usually faster than prices. Party time for the few with huge cash holdings and income based on loans being repaid in ever-more-valuable dollars, but a real shit sandwich for everyday working people.
To flog my favorite international relations hobbyhorse yet again: yes, yes we can. And if you don't like it, you can fund a big enough military to tip the balance of power back toward equality.
Call it the uranium rule: he who has the nuclear aircraft carriers makes the rules.
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I suspect it's not about what nVidia licensed, but what they didn't license. The binary blob is a huge mass of code, just given the size and what it does, and the sheer number of graphics-related patents out there, it's a fair bet they're infringing on something.
BSD/Apache/MIT is all the rage these days.
Yeah, you can tell by the way so many supercomputing clusters, Android phones, TVs, your home router, etc. have switched to a BSD kernel.
Oh wait...
7:30 alarm? And you call that life?
You'll call it "luxury" or "desperation", depending on your bank balance.
In 15 years, if you're still in bed at 7:30, it's because you're unemployed. The salaried workers have been in their cubes since 6 AM, and will be there until 6 PM.
4. Massive attrition through war for resources.
Conquering British Columbia was the easy part. Shipping our teraliters of newly-liberated water home to Doha, that was the real struggle...
a rocket engine gives *NO* horsepower in a static test, because there is no work being done.
The exhaust gasses beg to differ!
(or would, if they were sentient and capable of speech...)
SSSSssssssh!
Keep it down, man. Do you want to summon JonKatz and the army of Katz-haters?
Yes, Iraq supposedly bought 4000+ Playstation 2s to model nuclear detonations, there was at least one slashdot story about it.
Of course, if you believe what the western press reported about Iraqi weapons programs in that era, I have a very nice bridge and 400 kilos of yellowcake Uranium to sell you...
Who needs screenshots when we can use the wayback machine to party like it's 1999
You kids today with your shift keys and CAPS LOCK. We had to spell it COBOL, because we were too poor to afford lower-case letters.
"$2500+ for a Mac Pro desktop computer, what the fuck? "
You're comparing Apples to grapes putting a Mac Pro up against $400 Best Buy specials in the "desktop computer" category. Spec out a Dell Precision with the same Xeon 6535 processor, 1TB hard drive, and 6GB of RAM. The base Mac Pro is cheaper.
Oh the internet armchair libertarian brigade. Even when it's private enterprise infringing someone's rights, they rant about the government.
The "we don't have a license" angle is a diversion. This is all about Stratasys PR department not wanting a product they market to creative types to be linked in the public mind with the sort of firearms neckbeards that print AR lowers in their garages.
He's right about Romney, but given the constant trickle of 'Torvalds calls $person a $profanity $epithet' stories on /., I think we could save a lot of time if we just assume that 'f***ing moron' is the default state of humanity in his mind and confine reporting what he says about other people to the times when he doesn't call anyone rude names.
Number of fscks Larry Ellison has given about Java since finding out owning it doesn't mean Google owes him a ton of money for Dalvik: 0
There is literally nothing that people "taking more interest" could have do to change the outcome of that trial. Obsessively following groklaw isn't going to reform patent law, and complaining on the internet is not activism.
Because it's probably also running some programs you really don't want to run.
Ditch XP, the entire internet thanks you.
Most internal web apps run just fine on IE7, 8 and 9 too.
Yes, they mostly work fine on IE8 or Firefox or Chrome, but the "supported client configuration" is IE6. Woe unto thee if you deviate from the supported path in a business setting.
Hostnames stay with function (whether you use creative names like "ordmantell" or boring-but-obvious codes like "sql_payroll_london" is up to you) for the life of that function, and asset tags stay with the hardware for the life of the hardware. Why is this so difficult for some geeks to grok?
Everyone (technical or non) has one question: "Are my friends on Diaspora?"
followed by "...then what's the point?"
I advise you to never look into open-source image editing software, then...
Sweet. At last we've found a way to combine the inconvenience of finding a merchant that sells something you want and accepts Bitcoins with the inconvenience of finding a merchant that sells something you want and accepts non Visa/MC/Discover/Amex cards!
Wages, did not always go down, they went down in areas where labour could be eventually automated away, but they went UP where more specialised skills were needed. Henry Ford didn't allow unions in his factories, but he did double the wages of his employees in order to retain talent, he double the wages, paying the most in industry (5 dollars a day or 1.25 ounces of gold per week). He also cut the working week to 5 days and cut the hours to 8 per day.
And if the CEO of any public company tried that now, he would be out on his ass (sans golden parachute) an hour after his first quarterly report.
Amtrak has one roll-on-roll-off train, appropriately called the Auto Train. It runs from just outside DC to Orlando.
Unfortunately, everywhere else the policy on bringing your own vehicle seems to be "We'll transport the disassembled pieces of your bicycle (as long as they're in an approved cardboard container), but we won't like it."
Do you realise that throughout 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century (before the Fed was set up) the prices for consumer goods and services CONSTANTLY WENT DOWN?
So did wages, usually faster than prices. Party time for the few with huge cash holdings and income based on loans being repaid in ever-more-valuable dollars, but a real shit sandwich for everyday working people.
If Kaspersky doesn't know what the "warhead" does, it's going to be very difficult to write a tool (or instructions) to detect it!
To flog my favorite international relations hobbyhorse yet again: yes, yes we can. And if you don't like it, you can fund a big enough military to tip the balance of power back toward equality.
Call it the uranium rule: he who has the nuclear aircraft carriers makes the rules.