You can never outsource your core business, the thing that makes you unique and that you hope gives you a better product compared to other companies. If AMD wants the most leading edge new techniques in chip manufacture, they HAVE TO do it themselves. If you outsource, all you get is industry standard last-generation technology. If they give up manufacturing, they have given up half of their core business, and it will be very difficult for them to ever make a product innovative enough to compete.
I'll put it this way. When a new CPU line comes out, often every other cycle is a real redesign, and the cycles in-between are a die-shrink to smaller features and often a bigger wafer. Half of the innovation in chipmaking is the die shrinking and wafer sizes. They can't leave half of the innovation they need to keep up with Intel in the hands of someone else.
> The information is all know. There's nothing more. He really did pay for the site and he really was researching child porn. Stupid, illegal, but not criminal.
What exactly in your mind is the difference between illegal and criminal?
When I learned how to use Frontpage, the only other web page editors I had heard of were the one built in to Netscape, and very expensive ones from Macromedia or Adobe or something. At that time, I had just ditched Netscape 4.x or so because it crashed all the time. So, I wasn't going to reinstall Netscape to see if its web page editor was any better than its unreliable browser. Lots of people I knew knew a bit about using Frontpage.
Now, I use Firefox as my only browser, except for paying my bills. But I still make webpages with Frontpage, because I know how. Sometimes, those pages don't work in Firefox. But that doesn't bother me, because I know that less than 20% of my visitors will be on Firefox, and it is a lot easier to lose them than to learn a new editor. I could attract a lot more than 20% more visitors by spending time and effort on improving my pages or on working to get them linked more, etc. Is it lazy to not learn NVU or something? I don't think so, it is a choice, a decision on what is the most effective use of my time. If we Firefoxies ever get to be 50% of users, many people may feel it is worthwhile to learn how to make pages for us. But for now, it isn't worth my time.
Should a business rework a lot of code to satisfy 20% of users out there? That is for them to decide. Boycott them if you like, or email them to have our voice heard, but if they feel it is not worth the expense, they are ENTITLED to make that choice. And it may be the wisest choice for their bottom line.
Most of these Blu Ray so-called "sales" are actually heavily discounted or free discs that PS3 owners get by using vouchers. If you give away a million copies of a DVD, that doesn't make it the "top selling DVD" of the week. Sorry.
The high def war won't be decided by the tiny percent of richie riches who purchase discs now. Eventually, just like DVD, 90% of US citizens will have a high def player. Compared to that market, 100 million households, the tiny percent who will have high def while it is super expensive don't matter at all. Either side can still win- whoever first sells a player cheap enough for Joe Average to buy it will be the winner. You early adopters just don't matter.
You seem to have mixed up "users" and "developers." For most people, anything that involves a command line IS rocket science. When a techie comes along and ports something and makes it available, it can be a huge gift to the normal users. When everyone figures it is too easy and not worth doing it for the newbies, you end up in a situation where an essential program like GimpShop for Windows ends up with the Linux version lagging far behind the latest release of Gimp, and the Windows version being even more lagged behind Linux GimpShop.
Yes, in this case the demoscene song may have been original, but a large portion of demoscene music is variations or straight loops of popular songs. That group of people copies songs all the time. And to show that the song was copied, they "stole" large sections of both songs to put them on youtube. Indeed, most of the things I've seen on youtube have included "stolen" songs, usually the whole thing. That group, again, violates copyright all the time. Ask any teenager if it is wrong to copy songs- nobody thinks so. There are tons of people who enjoy creating music, books, movies etc. Most of them are shut out of the official marketplace because of heavily advertised c**p like Metallica and George Lucas. Let's just declare that there are no rights to prevent copying or claim credit. So what if Metallica in protest stops recording, plenty of people who honestly want to create will fill the void. For example, that demoscene guy who made the initial clip, I bet he would have still released it in a world with no copyright. Plently of media will still be created by people who just want to be heard, have their work seen, etc., and that media since none of it is copy-limited will easily satisfy the world demand for media. The whiners who want to make money, let them rot, we don't need them.
Even if you personally can't change the law, you can make your voice heard, by not filling the pockets of the evil record company and talentless hacks like Britney. Pledge to never buy a CD or popularize greed by listening to commercial music, and instead listen to the tons of songs by people who actually want you to hear them- search for "creative commons" music.
I have never seen an LCD monitor that had only a DVI input, they always have VGA too. Same with video cards, I've never seen one without VGA. So, if you end up wanting to play HD, won't every user have VGA as a choice to fall back to?
It is too bad that only millionaires can afford Apple. If you could buy a decent Mac for the same cost as a Dell, the 50% of users who don't care about gaming would probably do so, instantly solving half the botnet problem.
When PC gaming finishes dying out in the next few years, even more people could switch. Too bad that with their insane prices Apple will never break 15% market share.
I would say that ubiquity is the most important factor in being able to read something in the future, not it being open source. FAT32 is certain to be easily, if not legally, accessible for the very short expected lifetime of an external harddrive. To improve data recovery capabilities, you might like to create some archives in RAR format for error checking, with PAR2 files for redundancy and recovery. Hard drive space is cheap, so for safety keep the uncompressed files as well as the archives.
Since hard drives fail, you should have more than one of them. And ideally, make DVDs also.
I created some files with early betas of Openoffice 2, and it was not at all easy to open them once the file format changed before the final release. As another example, despite it being open source, the legal problems of Reiser may cause that file system to be inconvenient to access in the future.
An outdated, but very popular legacy format will have support that will last far longer than people want it to. Because of the high marketshare that Wordperfect had in the days of Noah, even now you can open Wordperfect files in Word and Openoffice. If you think FAT32 will be unreadable anytime soon, think again.
The ends never, in any case justify the means. Everyone knows that. Wrong actions can never be justified, no matter what supposed good comes from them. Any philosophy that doesn't admit that fact ends up with the situation where if a rich benefactor told you you had to kill for him and do his bidding, you would have to if he promised in return to save enough starving children in Africa.
Here's what I would try to do to fix the bridge problem. Right before the bridge I'd put up a sign that says "Speed Limit 75." That should persuade people the bridge is safe and get them to not slow down.
Nobody needs 64-bit processors, and nobody needs a successor O/S to Windows XP. People do word processing, internet browsing, video chat - but they don't need a more powerful computer. Even an old 1Ghz machine works fine if you get at least a gig of RAM in it, and don't bog it down with Norton. There is no transition coming. People do not choose an operating system, nor do they need to. They buy a computer, it comes with Windows. If Vista is bad enough, people may choose to stick with their old computers and not buy new ones. The Linux idea that we will win because we are cheaper than Windows doesn't work. A Dell with Windows is within a few dollars of the cheapest bare system you can buy. The advantage of Linux is no viruses. If we can that that huge advantage, and add ease of use, some people will switch. The author's idea that MacOS will take over is also ridiculous. Macs will always cost twice as much, and because of that they will never get real market share. There aren't enough rich people for Mac to ever get even 15% of market share. On the other hand, at least half of Windows users are having their data stolen and their system slow and unreliable because of malware. If we give them an easy to use alternative and heavily promote it, Linux can gain market share, and could even put Windows out of business one day.
Yes, it is annoying that Microsoft collects $50 from every buyer of a computer, and that they do nearly no work to earn it. Vista and XP are no better than Win2000, which was nothing more than a bug fixed Win98. Win98 was a nice step forward from earlier software, though.
But that pales in comparison to the evil done by software patents. Microsoft has a very evil patent portfolio, including patents that make it illegal to do almost everything. If you write a program, using just your imagination and your familiarity with the idea of a GUI with menus, buttons, requester boxes, it will usually violates dozens of patents. This is a risk to Linux, but also to any individual programmer. If you are a large company, you can patent the most obvious things, making nearly all activity in the world illegal for over a decade. For example, the patent on a web site having a shopping cart, if enforced would mean the end of buying anything online. The ridiculous company that runs the test.com website has a patent that makes it illegal to run most tests or quizzes online. Microsoft's software patents are a scourge that threatens all programmers and all non-Microsoft software.
The good thing about open source is that if a person goes rogue, their code can be taken over by someone else and their existence erased from history. Just call it "NewFS" or something. "Someday we may catch up with ReiserFS" That is insane. Just use ReiserFS and give it a new name.
Remember the thrill when DVD first came out of pausing a movie and being able to read the writing on letters, signs, liquor bottles? Now that will be expanded and you can read many more tiny objects, and the higher resolution will let you zoom in on women in the crowd with enough detail to really see if they are hot.
I want to be able to run a browser in a VM , and play WMV videos. Does one of these do that, I know Mplayer may be illegal in the US, so is Freespire the only one that has it? Or is there another virtual appliance that has a browser and can play WMV?
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And I was really looking forward to using the Wiimote to hack up some coeds.
You can never outsource your core business, the thing that makes you unique and that you hope gives you a better product compared to other companies. If AMD wants the most leading edge new techniques in chip manufacture, they HAVE TO do it themselves. If you outsource, all you get is industry standard last-generation technology. If they give up manufacturing, they have given up half of their core business, and it will be very difficult for them to ever make a product innovative enough to compete. I'll put it this way. When a new CPU line comes out, often every other cycle is a real redesign, and the cycles in-between are a die-shrink to smaller features and often a bigger wafer. Half of the innovation in chipmaking is the die shrinking and wafer sizes. They can't leave half of the innovation they need to keep up with Intel in the hands of someone else.
> The information is all know. There's nothing more. He really did pay for the site and he really was researching child porn. Stupid, illegal, but not criminal.
What exactly in your mind is the difference between illegal and criminal?
When I learned how to use Frontpage, the only other web page editors I had heard of were the one built in to Netscape, and very expensive ones from Macromedia or Adobe or something. At that time, I had just ditched Netscape 4.x or so because it crashed all the time. So, I wasn't going to reinstall Netscape to see if its web page editor was any better than its unreliable browser. Lots of people I knew knew a bit about using Frontpage. Now, I use Firefox as my only browser, except for paying my bills. But I still make webpages with Frontpage, because I know how. Sometimes, those pages don't work in Firefox. But that doesn't bother me, because I know that less than 20% of my visitors will be on Firefox, and it is a lot easier to lose them than to learn a new editor. I could attract a lot more than 20% more visitors by spending time and effort on improving my pages or on working to get them linked more, etc. Is it lazy to not learn NVU or something? I don't think so, it is a choice, a decision on what is the most effective use of my time. If we Firefoxies ever get to be 50% of users, many people may feel it is worthwhile to learn how to make pages for us. But for now, it isn't worth my time. Should a business rework a lot of code to satisfy 20% of users out there? That is for them to decide. Boycott them if you like, or email them to have our voice heard, but if they feel it is not worth the expense, they are ENTITLED to make that choice. And it may be the wisest choice for their bottom line.
Most of these Blu Ray so-called "sales" are actually heavily discounted or free discs that PS3 owners get by using vouchers. If you give away a million copies of a DVD, that doesn't make it the "top selling DVD" of the week. Sorry. The high def war won't be decided by the tiny percent of richie riches who purchase discs now. Eventually, just like DVD, 90% of US citizens will have a high def player. Compared to that market, 100 million households, the tiny percent who will have high def while it is super expensive don't matter at all. Either side can still win- whoever first sells a player cheap enough for Joe Average to buy it will be the winner. You early adopters just don't matter.
You seem to have mixed up "users" and "developers." For most people, anything that involves a command line IS rocket science. When a techie comes along and ports something and makes it available, it can be a huge gift to the normal users. When everyone figures it is too easy and not worth doing it for the newbies, you end up in a situation where an essential program like GimpShop for Windows ends up with the Linux version lagging far behind the latest release of Gimp, and the Windows version being even more lagged behind Linux GimpShop.
Yes, in this case the demoscene song may have been original, but a large portion of demoscene music is variations or straight loops of popular songs. That group of people copies songs all the time. And to show that the song was copied, they "stole" large sections of both songs to put them on youtube. Indeed, most of the things I've seen on youtube have included "stolen" songs, usually the whole thing. That group, again, violates copyright all the time. Ask any teenager if it is wrong to copy songs- nobody thinks so.
There are tons of people who enjoy creating music, books, movies etc. Most of them are shut out of the official marketplace because of heavily advertised c**p like Metallica and George Lucas. Let's just declare that there are no rights to prevent copying or claim credit. So what if Metallica in protest stops recording, plenty of people who honestly want to create will fill the void. For example, that demoscene guy who made the initial clip, I bet he would have still released it in a world with no copyright.
Plently of media will still be created by people who just want to be heard, have their work seen, etc., and that media since none of it is copy-limited will easily satisfy the world demand for media. The whiners who want to make money, let them rot, we don't need them.
Even if you personally can't change the law, you can make your voice heard, by not filling the pockets of the evil record company and talentless hacks like Britney. Pledge to never buy a CD or popularize greed by listening to commercial music, and instead listen to the tons of songs by people who actually want you to hear them- search for "creative commons" music.
I have never seen an LCD monitor that had only a DVI input, they always have VGA too. Same with video cards, I've never seen one without VGA. So, if you end up wanting to play HD, won't every user have VGA as a choice to fall back to?
It is too bad that only millionaires can afford Apple. If you could buy a decent Mac for the same cost as a Dell, the 50% of users who don't care about gaming would probably do so, instantly solving half the botnet problem. When PC gaming finishes dying out in the next few years, even more people could switch. Too bad that with their insane prices Apple will never break 15% market share.
I would say that ubiquity is the most important factor in being able to read something in the future, not it being open source. FAT32 is certain to be easily, if not legally, accessible for the very short expected lifetime of an external harddrive. To improve data recovery capabilities, you might like to create some archives in RAR format for error checking, with PAR2 files for redundancy and recovery. Hard drive space is cheap, so for safety keep the uncompressed files as well as the archives. Since hard drives fail, you should have more than one of them. And ideally, make DVDs also. I created some files with early betas of Openoffice 2, and it was not at all easy to open them once the file format changed before the final release. As another example, despite it being open source, the legal problems of Reiser may cause that file system to be inconvenient to access in the future. An outdated, but very popular legacy format will have support that will last far longer than people want it to. Because of the high marketshare that Wordperfect had in the days of Noah, even now you can open Wordperfect files in Word and Openoffice. If you think FAT32 will be unreadable anytime soon, think again.
The ends never, in any case justify the means. Everyone knows that. Wrong actions can never be justified, no matter what supposed good comes from them. Any philosophy that doesn't admit that fact ends up with the situation where if a rich benefactor told you you had to kill for him and do his bidding, you would have to if he promised in return to save enough starving children in Africa.
Here's what I would try to do to fix the bridge problem. Right before the bridge I'd put up a sign that says "Speed Limit 75." That should persuade people the bridge is safe and get them to not slow down.
Nobody needs 64-bit processors, and nobody needs a successor O/S to Windows XP. People do word processing, internet browsing, video chat - but they don't need a more powerful computer. Even an old 1Ghz machine works fine if you get at least a gig of RAM in it, and don't bog it down with Norton. There is no transition coming. People do not choose an operating system, nor do they need to. They buy a computer, it comes with Windows. If Vista is bad enough, people may choose to stick with their old computers and not buy new ones. The Linux idea that we will win because we are cheaper than Windows doesn't work. A Dell with Windows is within a few dollars of the cheapest bare system you can buy. The advantage of Linux is no viruses. If we can that that huge advantage, and add ease of use, some people will switch. The author's idea that MacOS will take over is also ridiculous. Macs will always cost twice as much, and because of that they will never get real market share. There aren't enough rich people for Mac to ever get even 15% of market share. On the other hand, at least half of Windows users are having their data stolen and their system slow and unreliable because of malware. If we give them an easy to use alternative and heavily promote it, Linux can gain market share, and could even put Windows out of business one day.
Yes, it is annoying that Microsoft collects $50 from every buyer of a computer, and that they do nearly no work to earn it. Vista and XP are no better than Win2000, which was nothing more than a bug fixed Win98. Win98 was a nice step forward from earlier software, though. But that pales in comparison to the evil done by software patents. Microsoft has a very evil patent portfolio, including patents that make it illegal to do almost everything. If you write a program, using just your imagination and your familiarity with the idea of a GUI with menus, buttons, requester boxes, it will usually violates dozens of patents. This is a risk to Linux, but also to any individual programmer. If you are a large company, you can patent the most obvious things, making nearly all activity in the world illegal for over a decade. For example, the patent on a web site having a shopping cart, if enforced would mean the end of buying anything online. The ridiculous company that runs the test.com website has a patent that makes it illegal to run most tests or quizzes online. Microsoft's software patents are a scourge that threatens all programmers and all non-Microsoft software.
I'd be happy to buy CDs if they dropped the price to about $5 a CD.
The good thing about open source is that if a person goes rogue, their code can be taken over by someone else and their existence erased from history. Just call it "NewFS" or something. "Someday we may catch up with ReiserFS" That is insane. Just use ReiserFS and give it a new name.
"Blu-Ray doesn't look much better than DVDs"
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That is really hard to believe, because HD can look MUCH better than DVD, if you pause it. See here: http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/index.html
These 2 especially: http://www.cornbread.org/FOTRCompare/FOTR_Compare
Remember the thrill when DVD first came out of pausing a movie and being able to read the writing on letters, signs, liquor bottles?
Now that will be expanded and you can read many more tiny objects, and the higher resolution will let you zoom in on women in the crowd with enough detail to really see if they are hot.
I want to be able to run a browser in a VM , and play WMV videos. Does one of these do that, I know Mplayer may be illegal in the US, so is Freespire the only one that has it? Or is there another virtual appliance that has a browser and can play WMV?