Of course it doesn't make sense to sue the whole food chain. Sue the manufacturer of the specific part, and leave it at that. Imagine how much fun it'd be if someone discovered that Award (or some other major BIOS manufacturer) had violated a patent in their BIOSes. There is no way the rest of the food chain can verify that no patents have been violated. Of course they can sue Award for damages, but imagine 400 companies suing Award. Anyone get any money? Nah. It would be incredibly expensive for a large manufacturer (eg. Dell) to verify that each and every component it uses does not violate any patents or IP. Same way with a car. Car manufacturers manufacture a fraction of the components themselves, and buy eg. wiper motors from Bosch.
I see your ease of use and raise you with an SMS-alert;-) My HTPC keeps track of all my favourite TV-shows using a RSS-feed, grabs new torrents hourly (bit overkill actually, but good for sleepless nights), sends me an SMS that the show is downloaded and seeds the torrents for a while to up my credit. It took a fair while to set up, but damn it's convenient. My router runs linux, so all bandwidth-intensive traffic is shaped. I never notice that the bandwidth is being used. I'm not demanding an equally nice solution from content-providers, that would be unreasonable IMHO. But I'm quite willing to pay for a solution that approaches mine and is completely legal and DRM free.
Or use it in cars on a HUD, to mark cars/pedestrians bright red and the road green. Using IR, it would even be possible to see pedestrians/cars/animals at night. Could be combined with eg. ultrasound ranging too, to detect the exact distance to something in the road that you're unable to see yet. I can think of a couple dozen good "in-car" safety features one could make with this...
Compare your 20-40% to Norway (which has socialized health care). We generally pay between 33-50% income tax. VAT is 25%. We have one of the highest taxes in the world on cars, and gas is incredibly expensive. Yet, somehow, we've been named "Best country in the world to live in"... And I even think I agree.
Higher tax levels (up to a certain point) increases the populations happyness. Odd as it sounds, I remember reading about that a few years ago. If you really, really want a source I could try googling...
Nope, unfortunately. I've also disabled the auto-window-size-thingy that Vista thinks is a cool idea. And even with antivirus/firewall removed/disabled, no joy. I can ping the devices just fine, but connecting is a no-go. Works fine with WinXP, Linux and OS/X. Vista just doesn't want to;)
Well, I hope that SP1 can fix the incredibly stupid problem I'm having on my LAN. I can surf teh intarweb through my linux-based router just fine. I can ping my router. I can't actually connect to the router though, via http/ssh/ftp/samba. I can't connect to other devices on my network either. All of them responds to pings, but it's impossible to connect. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE CODERS? How on earth can such a problem pass any kind of "quality control"?
As it is I will just go and upgrade to the latest Sony Ericson P990i instead. It supports wifi, has a web browser and most things I want but I really would have preffered an iPhone. Not being able to replace the battery myself is a killer for me though so this is one sale Apple lost.
No, they didn't lose a sale. You were never in the target group. You choose butt-ugly with user-replaceable battery, I choose awesome looks where I have to use tools and solder to replace the battery.
Ok, since I got modded offtopic and redundant for asking, let me rephrase the question. Why the fuck is this in "Ask Slashdot"? I can't see a single questionmark in the story, can you?
with >1,000,000 write cycles per block at a blocksize of 64kb with special routines to distribute the write load, "wearing out" a disk is going to take literally ages.
Codecs: There are instructions on how to install the extra codecs. Its the first thing most people do after installing Ubuntu: its very much a one off.
Really? How do you know that "most people" do this? And which instructions are you talking about?
Worst case isn't "complete reinstall". It's "complete reinstall, and remove BIOS to reflash on another board". There are viruses that reflashes your BIOS rendering your PC unbootable.
Yup. Batteries are only required to last six months. Recently, it was discusse whether harddrives should be required to last five years too, but I think that was shot down (fortunately).
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Of course it doesn't make sense to sue the whole food chain. Sue the manufacturer of the specific part, and leave it at that. Imagine how much fun it'd be if someone discovered that Award (or some other major BIOS manufacturer) had violated a patent in their BIOSes. There is no way the rest of the food chain can verify that no patents have been violated. Of course they can sue Award for damages, but imagine 400 companies suing Award. Anyone get any money? Nah. It would be incredibly expensive for a large manufacturer (eg. Dell) to verify that each and every component it uses does not violate any patents or IP. Same way with a car. Car manufacturers manufacture a fraction of the components themselves, and buy eg. wiper motors from Bosch.
I see your ease of use and raise you with an SMS-alert ;-)
My HTPC keeps track of all my favourite TV-shows using a RSS-feed, grabs new torrents hourly (bit overkill actually, but good for sleepless nights), sends me an SMS that the show is downloaded and seeds the torrents for a while to up my credit. It took a fair while to set up, but damn it's convenient. My router runs linux, so all bandwidth-intensive traffic is shaped. I never notice that the bandwidth is being used. I'm not demanding an equally nice solution from content-providers, that would be unreasonable IMHO. But I'm quite willing to pay for a solution that approaches mine and is completely legal and DRM free.
Or use it in cars on a HUD, to mark cars/pedestrians bright red and the road green. Using IR, it would even be possible to see pedestrians/cars/animals at night. Could be combined with eg. ultrasound ranging too, to detect the exact distance to something in the road that you're unable to see yet. I can think of a couple dozen good "in-car" safety features one could make with this...
Compare your 20-40% to Norway (which has socialized health care). We generally pay between 33-50% income tax. VAT is 25%. We have one of the highest taxes in the world on cars, and gas is incredibly expensive. Yet, somehow, we've been named "Best country in the world to live in"... And I even think I agree.
Higher tax levels (up to a certain point) increases the populations happyness. Odd as it sounds, I remember reading about that a few years ago. If you really, really want a source I could try googling...
Then I guess your mail is unimportant?
Laptop? PDA? Cellphone?
I can't connect to http/ftp/ssh locally. I've activated file sharing and discovery, the local network is "private". Doesn't help. ;)
Nope, unfortunately. I've also disabled the auto-window-size-thingy that Vista thinks is a cool idea. And even with antivirus/firewall removed/disabled, no joy. I can ping the devices just fine, but connecting is a no-go. Works fine with WinXP, Linux and OS/X. Vista just doesn't want to ;)
Well, I hope that SP1 can fix the incredibly stupid problem I'm having on my LAN. I can surf teh intarweb through my linux-based router just fine. I can ping my router. I can't actually connect to the router though, via http/ssh/ftp/samba. I can't connect to other devices on my network either. All of them responds to pings, but it's impossible to connect. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE CODERS? How on earth can such a problem pass any kind of "quality control"?
PVRUSB2 works on ARM (both LE and BE) and PPC :)
Try using "links" instead. It supports frames
No, they didn't lose a sale. You were never in the target group. You choose butt-ugly with user-replaceable battery, I choose awesome looks where I have to use tools and solder to replace the battery.
Just use the firehose. It updates automatically, and some of it ends up on the frontpage ;)
Ok, since I got modded offtopic and redundant for asking, let me rephrase the question. Why the fuck is this in "Ask Slashdot"? I can't see a single questionmark in the story, can you?
And this is in "Ask Slashdot" why?
They're not only a required upgrade, they were automatically installed in the background without your knowledge.
OMG! PONIES!!!
with >1,000,000 write cycles per block at a blocksize of 64kb with special routines to distribute the write load, "wearing out" a disk is going to take literally ages.
Really? How do you know that "most people" do this? And which instructions are you talking about?
Useful link for saving power on Intel hardware: http://www.linuxpowertop.org/index.php
Worst case isn't "complete reinstall". It's "complete reinstall, and remove BIOS to reflash on another board". There are viruses that reflashes your BIOS rendering your PC unbootable.
Jabba?
Yup. Batteries are only required to last six months. Recently, it was discusse whether harddrives should be required to last five years too, but I think that was shot down (fortunately).
Or Maxwell's Silver Hammer which I think the GP actually referenced ;)
There's a facebook group too now. Wonder how long it'll last ;-)