That's right, you can't sue them. And you don't want to. The car industry is horribly regulated, pretty much since the Ford Pinto. Typical markups on computers these days are about 10%, compared to a standard 100% markup for other products. Some products such as cables, enjoy a 12x increase.
If you had to pay for insurance for a powersupply failing, you'd be spending $5000 for a $2000 computer, although it'd certainly be more reliable. Of course, it wouldn't run as fast, plus you'd then have to invest $1000 into an OS... even Linux most certainly wouldn't be free (as in beer) if liability was an issue.
Without addressing whether he's an idiot or not, he also said it would require completely rewriting the OS. That's not quite true, but it did require some kernel mods, some custom coding of drivers, a completely new way to handle NFS, and many other changes. It is open-source, so you can have a look for yourself if you're really interested.
If you're not regularly providing articles, who cares? WSJ is big enough that a single article is fine for free use, as it's a tiny fraction of what they print and won't cause them harm. If you signed a contract saying you won't use any other method to distribute, except the "Email this article" function, then you violated a usage license, not a copyright.
Someone has got to be giving the orders, so
if you think you can do better, get yourself some stripes or a commision and try it yourself tough guy.
That's perfectly reasonable, and it sounds like he already has the required degree. The original suggestion was enlisting in the infantry. I don't knock that suggestion at all, but it's directed at what looks to be the wrong person. I'm just saying, if you enlist, expect to see action in these times. We are, in one form or another, in a state of war.
If you do enlist as a geek, I salute you. The recruiter will promise you the world. GET IT IN WRITING on where you'll be assigned and what your duties will be.
But there's one big, nasty assumption you're making when you say Which story would you rather tell your grand children: '... and our
database design was better than everyone elses' or '... and there I was in my fox hole with bombs exploding all around me...'?
The assumption you're making is that you'll live to have grandchildren if you have bombs going off around you. I would say that now might NOT be the time to join the military, unless you honestly want to see action. Most geeks I know don't "take orders" very well, and aren't very keen on shooting at others, unless they're driving a remote-control joystick-driven bomb with cool graphics and lots of 'splosions.
Recently, some discussion with legislators have been pushing harddrive manufacturers to do something similar, in efforts to stem piracy. In march of this year, Senator Hollings introduced a bill that would require it. Lookup "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act"
This is no different but not legislated, fortunately. It merely means I won't be buying a Creative card when I upgrade.
I strongly suggest you archive some of Creative's current drivers (without the protection enabled) if you plan on using this card in Windows in the future.
But seriously.... I hope the database has a line for entering the date and the exact product. EULAs change over time, even for the same product, and it'd be interesting to discover changes.
[Ogg Vorbis] was *specifically* designed with prior knowledge of the existing patents in mind, and 2 independant patent searches were done... It is completely free of any patent burden.
... and, similary, a patched GNU/Linux is completely free of any remote security holes.
There are huge advantages for digital in some areas, and disadvantages in others. When was the last time you had to recharge your 35mm slr?
Similarly, digital theatres will definitely have a place, but I doubt the medium will replace film for a long, long while. I could see it happening in certain areas such as surround theatres, or possibly even audience-influenced theatres -- can you imagine how cool it would be if the audience could say whodunnit and the PI in the movie could react to it? (Hmm... kind of like playing Dragon's Lair)
Actually, the LD version is not uncut. It's missing two scenes from the original movie, as are all home-view productions. There is a scene where Luke is talking to a pilot (argh, forget his name -- Biggs?) lamenting about Han, after han took his cash and left as the death star was closing. I can't remember the other missing scene.:(
Funny how you missed the blatant falsism about WHAT was said and concentrated on HOW it was said.
Normally, the content is the first indicator of whether it's a joke.
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Yes. Most patents are enforced by treaty. That means that those that agree to the treaty will enforce patents from foreign countries. AFAIK, china and certain eastern countries have not signed the similar patent treaties that the US, most NATO countries, and hundreds of others have signed. I'm pretty sure that Japan and the US have a reciprocal treaty in place.
The 64-bit x-86 hasn't been welcomed as warmly, primarily due to backward compatibility issues. Definitely having the source and being able to recompile Linux apps will give the Linux folks a jump out the gate for 64-bit apps.
In general, I doubt strongly this is a AMD vs Intel issue, either. This is a Windows (and their legacy users) vs Linux (and their overly prideful users that must find every method to berate windows).:)
It's like you showing a picture in a public place, then someone else taking a copy of your exact photo, and displaying the picture YOU took. They did not do the walking, they did not do the photography, they merely did the displaying of your picture without your permission.
We don't need a court ruling on this. What we need is a court ruling which says "Search engines must follow a specific, easy-to-implement protocol designed and agreed-upon by experts in the field (e.g. robots.txt), and are exempt from prosecution if the copyright-holders don't install or follow the protocol correctly.
Why 32,768 layers exactly? Well, that's what you get when you flatten a piece of steel, fold it in two, and stretch it back while hammering it 15 times...
Does ANYONE here have any idea what this guy is talking about? He must be some kind of total math pencilneck egghead geek. Stop with the bizarre rocket science, bub, we're humans here, not frikkin computer chip-head geniuses.
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The only good thing is that he can now write a book and guarantee a best seller
30 cents says he won't grant rights for an E-Book.
unfortunately I can't remember the URL, but I do remember the page was a sort of pepperminty
green.
Oh! I'll just run off and do a web search for "pepperminty green".
All MMORPGs have not released badly, certainly not as bad as Anarchy-online. A simple counter-example is Asheron's Call, which had few actual playability issues. The lag was not horrible, and there were a few esoteric bugs (duplication bugs) and other things that got worked out quickly.
EQ had a very rocky start. UO was even worse, from what I hear.
However, these games were released YEARS AGO. Current games have to be able to compete with CURRENT products, not the pioneers of the genre. Imagine releasing Doom today. Imagine the sound as it flopped completely. Now imagine what's going to happen to AO if they don't get their network and server code up to snuff with today's games. The ONLY thing they got going for them is eye candy (very good eye candy, btw). Hopefully, they'll get the rest of it working to make a real game, instead of the somewhat painful version of today or the joke of a release a couple weeks ago. And hopefully they'll do this before they completely lose their fanboi playerbase.
I am a critic of AO, but not an unfair one. They released it early, making it an extension of the horribly short beta4 stress tests that should've found and corrected most of the problems. Perhaps they ran out of money, who cares. However, they have been scrambling to salvage what they could. Bad business decision, noted. Now, judge them by the game of the "real" retail version, once they started the clock on the prepaid month.
Currently, the game looks like this:
The missions are stable, where you can pick up and return the objects, find the people, get the rewards, etc.
There's another thread about them using TCP in all of their communications. This is usually considered a Bad Thing (tm) in MMO games due to the potential lag issues when a packet (even an unimportant or obsolete packet) is missed. This is a technical issue that bit them hard, and will again, bare its nasty teeth in the future. Any good network programmer should've known that TCP would cause its own set of lag issues.
I use gps all the time in a car, plane, boat, hell wherever I go. It works great, and I get a lock on plenty of gps birds. Any recent 12-chan gps receiver will do fine, especially if you use an external antenna.
Since SA was turned off by the clinton admin, I get 20-30 foot resolution all the time with a great DOP.
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That's right, you can't sue them. And you don't want to. The car industry is horribly regulated, pretty much since the Ford Pinto. Typical markups on computers these days are about 10%, compared to a standard 100% markup for other products. Some products such as cables, enjoy a 12x increase.
If you had to pay for insurance for a powersupply failing, you'd be spending $5000 for a $2000 computer, although it'd certainly be more reliable. Of course, it wouldn't run as fast, plus you'd then have to invest $1000 into an OS... even Linux most certainly wouldn't be free (as in beer) if liability was an issue.
Without addressing whether he's an idiot or not, he also said it would require completely rewriting the OS. That's not quite true, but it did require some kernel mods, some custom coding of drivers, a completely new way to handle NFS, and many other changes. It is open-source, so you can have a look for yourself if you're really interested.
If you're not regularly providing articles, who cares? WSJ is big enough that a single article is fine for free use, as it's a tiny fraction of what they print and won't cause them harm. If you signed a contract saying you won't use any other method to distribute, except the "Email this article" function, then you violated a usage license, not a copyright.
That's perfectly reasonable, and it sounds like he already has the required degree. The original suggestion was enlisting in the infantry. I don't knock that suggestion at all, but it's directed at what looks to be the wrong person. I'm just saying, if you enlist, expect to see action in these times. We are, in one form or another, in a state of war.
If you do enlist as a geek, I salute you. The recruiter will promise you the world. GET IT IN WRITING on where you'll be assigned and what your duties will be.
But there's one big, nasty assumption you're making when you say Which story would you rather tell your grand children: '... and our database design was better than everyone elses' or '... and there I was in my fox hole with bombs exploding all around me ...'?
The assumption you're making is that you'll live to have grandchildren if you have bombs going off around you. I would say that now might NOT be the time to join the military, unless you honestly want to see action. Most geeks I know don't "take orders" very well, and aren't very keen on shooting at others, unless they're driving a remote-control joystick-driven bomb with cool graphics and lots of 'splosions.
Recently, some discussion with legislators have been pushing harddrive manufacturers to do something similar, in efforts to stem piracy. In march of this year, Senator Hollings introduced a bill that would require it. Lookup "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Act"
This is no different but not legislated, fortunately. It merely means I won't be buying a Creative card when I upgrade.
I strongly suggest you archive some of Creative's current drivers (without the protection enabled) if you plan on using this card in Windows in the future.
Trojans definitely have their uses!
Certain software (betatesting, closed-source stuff) requires NDA, which is done before you even get to see the EULA.
But seriously.... I hope the database has a line for entering the date and the exact product. EULAs change over time, even for the same product, and it'd be interesting to discover changes.
If almost noone sold their stock, the bubble wouldn't have burst.
There are huge advantages for digital in some areas, and disadvantages in others. When was the last time you had to recharge your 35mm slr?
Similarly, digital theatres will definitely have a place, but I doubt the medium will replace film for a long, long while. I could see it happening in certain areas such as surround theatres, or possibly even audience-influenced theatres -- can you imagine how cool it would be if the audience could say whodunnit and the PI in the movie could react to it? (Hmm... kind of like playing Dragon's Lair)
Actually, the LD version is not uncut. It's missing two scenes from the original movie, as are all home-view productions. There is a scene where Luke is talking to a pilot (argh, forget his name -- Biggs?) lamenting about Han, after han took his cash and left as the death star was closing. I can't remember the other missing scene. :(
Funny how you missed the blatant falsism about WHAT was said and concentrated on HOW it was said.
Normally, the content is the first indicator of whether it's a joke.
Yes. Most patents are enforced by treaty. That means that those that agree to the treaty will enforce patents from foreign countries. AFAIK, china and certain eastern countries have not signed the similar patent treaties that the US, most NATO countries, and hundreds of others have signed. I'm pretty sure that Japan and the US have a reciprocal treaty in place.
Considering how hot AMDs run, who would want to touch it?!
The 64-bit x-86 hasn't been welcomed as warmly, primarily due to backward compatibility issues. Definitely having the source and being able to recompile Linux apps will give the Linux folks a jump out the gate for 64-bit apps.
:)
In general, I doubt strongly this is a AMD vs Intel issue, either. This is a Windows (and their legacy users) vs Linux (and their overly prideful users that must find every method to berate windows).
Yep. Consider an 800 number to be a collect call. You can't block the number, even if it's unlisted.
Your analogy is wrong.
It's like you showing a picture in a public place, then someone else taking a copy of your exact photo, and displaying the picture YOU took. They did not do the walking, they did not do the photography, they merely did the displaying of your picture without your permission.
We don't need a court ruling on this. What we need is a court ruling which says "Search engines must follow a specific, easy-to-implement protocol designed and agreed-upon by experts in the field (e.g. robots.txt), and are exempt from prosecution if the copyright-holders don't install or follow the protocol correctly.
Does ANYONE here have any idea what this guy is talking about? He must be some kind of total math pencilneck egghead geek. Stop with the bizarre rocket science, bub, we're humans here, not frikkin computer chip-head geniuses.
30 cents says he won't grant rights for an E-Book.
unfortunately I can't remember the URL, but I do remember the page was a sort of pepperminty green. Oh! I'll just run off and do a web search for "pepperminty green".
Not only that, that's false!
All MMORPGs have not released badly, certainly not as bad as Anarchy-online. A simple counter-example is Asheron's Call, which had few actual playability issues. The lag was not horrible, and there were a few esoteric bugs (duplication bugs) and other things that got worked out quickly.
EQ had a very rocky start. UO was even worse, from what I hear.
However, these games were released YEARS AGO. Current games have to be able to compete with CURRENT products, not the pioneers of the genre. Imagine releasing Doom today. Imagine the sound as it flopped completely. Now imagine what's going to happen to AO if they don't get their network and server code up to snuff with today's games. The ONLY thing they got going for them is eye candy (very good eye candy, btw). Hopefully, they'll get the rest of it working to make a real game, instead of the somewhat painful version of today or the joke of a release a couple weeks ago. And hopefully they'll do this before they completely lose their fanboi playerbase.
Currently, the game looks like this:
- The missions are stable, where you can pick up and return the objects, find the people, get the rewards, etc.
- The zoning is mostly stable, from what I read on alt.games.anarchy-online.
- The lag in the cities is rather bad.
- Monsters can attack through walls.
There's another thread about them using TCP in all of their communications. This is usually considered a Bad Thing (tm) in MMO games due to the potential lag issues when a packet (even an unimportant or obsolete packet) is missed. This is a technical issue that bit them hard, and will again, bare its nasty teeth in the future. Any good network programmer should've known that TCP would cause its own set of lag issues.I use gps all the time in a car, plane, boat, hell wherever I go. It works great, and I get a lock on plenty of gps birds. Any recent 12-chan gps receiver will do fine, especially if you use an external antenna.
Since SA was turned off by the clinton admin, I get 20-30 foot resolution all the time with a great DOP.