3) Intel's architecture has already shown problems with the FSB limitations with Woodcrest in Apple benchmarks. True SMP type multi-threading causes degraded performance, especially when heavy large-scale memory access occurs that exceeds the cache capacity. I can't imagine this will get better @ 45nm, except that the cache might grow. 16MB L2 cache anyone? 32MB? 64MB? Heck, why not just go for a GB? Who needs system memory anyway? -- that's a joke btw
The fact that something is illegal does not make it wrong.
I could search the web for an abundance of stupid laws that prohibits random things round the world, but I'm sure you have already heard about a lot of them.
Also, the fact that something is legal does not make it right. This is much more clear when you look back in time and think about slavery, witch-burning etc.
The thing with bittorrent is that it's up to the 'server' user to decide how much bandwidth he will donate to you. If the members of the torrent notice that you don't give back anything, your bandwidth will get throttled. Of course, for very popular torrents with a lot of seeders you will get a good bandwidth anyway, but with more rare files, you will have to give something back unless you want to wait for days to download the file.
Sharing is caring. What you are doing shows a lack of hacker ethics, and is the reason that the protocols that allow such egoistic behaviour are almost abandoned by the people who knows about the alternatives like bittorrent.
It's not for the starving kids you see at the front page of the red cross leaflets. It's for the more developed African countries (well, maybe not just African) that already have a more-or-less working water and food supply, and now has to get the education level up.
Yes, but how to evade it is not, nor is it obvious while reading the law.
And yes, I guess I meant engineering. As you probably have noticed, english is not my first language.
Regarding the patents on medicine, I should mention that I'm very well aware of the current situation, and why some people think that there cannot exist any more effective way to make sure new drugs are being developed than with patents. Even with the oh-so-great patent system, we still do not have a cure for cancer, who has been known to humans for atleast 2500 years. Maybe there are more lucrative areas to spend the money on, for example hair-loss treatments, or impotence pills.
Since the major pharmaceutical companies all publish their income statements online everyone can see that they spend around 15% of their income on research. Doesn't sound very effective to me for companies that mainly does research and development. Sure, they have all the rights in the world to spend as much money as they want on whatever they want, but if we as a society would like to see some cure for AIDS or cancer instead of making sure that one industry gets to maintain it's easy business model, maybe it's time to figure out a better system.
"How can you patent a business method on following the law?"
Easy. It's done all the time with the law of nature, so why not with the other laws? It's even more justified to patent following this law, since it's something that we have written by ourselves. Something that should not be justified, is to patent facts, like they do in science like physics and medicine.
Anyone who owns a company where most of the developers are located in Russia would probably be prepared to travel on quite a short notice.
Can't explain the blood though.:)
I wouldn't think much of the "abuse history". Such accusations are supposedly very common in a divorce, especially when both parents wants to keep custody of the children.
Reclassify the tomato as a vegetable? Hilarious. May I ask what it was before this unorthodox reclassification? Consumer electronics? Weapon of mass destruction?
A recent study in denmark shows that yes, the "record" sales has gone down to aproximately the same levels as it was before the CD arrived, ie, before people started to replace all their vinyl with CDs. On the other hand, it's very easy to see in that report that the DVD sales increased to fill the drop in CD sales almost exactly. So far so good. Adding to this, the amount of money people spend on concerts has increased dramatically during the time that people has been able to download music for free from the internet, which means that we actually spend much more on music and culture today than we did before filesharing as we know it today existed.
The problem is that this money isn't going to the record companies big stars but to the smaller artists, as you can also see from the report. The smaller artists get a bigger share of the money today than earlier. This hurts their marketing strategy since it's cheaper just having to market one big star than a lot of smaller artists.
No, one of them is openly homosexual, and the other guy is atleast a member of a homo-/bi-forum. The rumour says they got close when they cooperated in some pro-EU project a couple of years ago.
There are atleast three ways this password could have been found.
a) My brother lives in the town where these passwords were leaked, and he said that their office use unencrypted WLAN.
b) The guy who presumably leaked it is in the office right next to the guy called 'Sigge'.
c) As the article thinks: The password was very easy to crack.
The latest rumour is that the guy who leaked the password (the left party) had a homosexual affair with the guy who *used* the password (the right party).
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That's because people like us has done a bit of research about patents, and how it affects invention and advance in technology.
Bah. In Sweden we pay 25% VAT, you insensitive clods.
The fact that something is illegal does not make it wrong.
I could search the web for an abundance of stupid laws that prohibits random things round the world, but I'm sure you have already heard about a lot of them.
Also, the fact that something is legal does not make it right. This is much more clear when you look back in time and think about slavery, witch-burning etc.
The thing with bittorrent is that it's up to the 'server' user to decide how much bandwidth he will donate to you. If the members of the torrent notice that you don't give back anything, your bandwidth will get throttled. Of course, for very popular torrents with a lot of seeders you will get a good bandwidth anyway, but with more rare files, you will have to give something back unless you want to wait for days to download the file.
Sharing is caring. What you are doing shows a lack of hacker ethics, and is the reason that the protocols that allow such egoistic behaviour are almost abandoned by the people who knows about the alternatives like bittorrent.
Unfortunately you can read this in the summary:
Fernando Lopéz Aguilar says Spain is drafting a new law to abolish the existing right to private copies of material.
Except when you buy a new harddrive/graphics card/something, install it, and realize it's faulty so you have to return it.
It's spelled Finnish.
It's not for the starving kids you see at the front page of the red cross leaflets. It's for the more developed African countries (well, maybe not just African) that already have a more-or-less working water and food supply, and now has to get the education level up.
Hey! I had it first! Don't you go stealing my intellectual property!
Seriously. How could they get a a patent on this? Is wireless the new "on the internet!" when it comes to patents?
Yes, but how to evade it is not, nor is it obvious while reading the law.
And yes, I guess I meant engineering. As you probably have noticed, english is not my first language.
Regarding the patents on medicine, I should mention that I'm very well aware of the current situation, and why some people think that there cannot exist any more effective way to make sure new drugs are being developed than with patents. Even with the oh-so-great patent system, we still do not have a cure for cancer, who has been known to humans for atleast 2500 years. Maybe there are more lucrative areas to spend the money on, for example hair-loss treatments, or impotence pills.
Since the major pharmaceutical companies all publish their income statements online everyone can see that they spend around 15% of their income on research. Doesn't sound very effective to me for companies that mainly does research and development. Sure, they have all the rights in the world to spend as much money as they want on whatever they want, but if we as a society would like to see some cure for AIDS or cancer instead of making sure that one industry gets to maintain it's easy business model, maybe it's time to figure out a better system.
"How can you patent a business method on following the law?"
Easy. It's done all the time with the law of nature, so why not with the other laws? It's even more justified to patent following this law, since it's something that we have written by ourselves. Something that should not be justified, is to patent facts, like they do in science like physics and medicine.
Have you people never heard of gmail?
Anyone who owns a company where most of the developers are located in Russia would probably be prepared to travel on quite a short notice.
Can't explain the blood though. :)
I wouldn't think much of the "abuse history". Such accusations are supposedly very common in a divorce, especially when both parents wants to keep custody of the children.
Best... answer... ever!
Reclassify the tomato as a vegetable? Hilarious. May I ask what it was before this unorthodox reclassification? Consumer electronics? Weapon of mass destruction?
Nintendo Wiibree anyone?
+1 Funny. :)
Which is exactly why we have to (and are trying to, atleast in parts of europe) to change this law.
A recent study in denmark shows that yes, the "record" sales has gone down to aproximately the same levels as it was before the CD arrived, ie, before people started to replace all their vinyl with CDs. On the other hand, it's very easy to see in that report that the DVD sales increased to fill the drop in CD sales almost exactly. So far so good. Adding to this, the amount of money people spend on concerts has increased dramatically during the time that people has been able to download music for free from the internet, which means that we actually spend much more on music and culture today than we did before filesharing as we know it today existed.
The problem is that this money isn't going to the record companies big stars but to the smaller artists, as you can also see from the report. The smaller artists get a bigger share of the money today than earlier. This hurts their marketing strategy since it's cheaper just having to market one big star than a lot of smaller artists.
No, one of them is openly homosexual, and the other guy is atleast a member of a homo-/bi-forum. The rumour says they got close when they cooperated in some pro-EU project a couple of years ago.
There are atleast three ways this password could have been found. a) My brother lives in the town where these passwords were leaked, and he said that their office use unencrypted WLAN. b) The guy who presumably leaked it is in the office right next to the guy called 'Sigge'. c) As the article thinks: The password was very easy to crack. The latest rumour is that the guy who leaked the password (the left party) had a homosexual affair with the guy who *used* the password (the right party).