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New server farm + Lala purchase + iTunes ubiquity + smartphone penetration + major label relationships = beating Spotify to the punch in the US.
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People get Intel graphics when all they want to do is do word, browsing + email, power point presentations, etc. - and have good battery life while doing it. The X4500HD never claimed to be able to run Crysis so don't lambast it for not doing so.
12:16 AM
Eh, the X4500 is a fine chip, but like a lot of previous generation solutions, it's running into a "just-not-good-enough" wall in a world of "good-enough" computing. Does that make any sense? The same thing happened to Intel Celeron and AMD Turion. They were fine when they came out, but then they kind of fell by the wayside as they just couldn't cut it.
The reason netbooks have risen up in style is because of "good enough" computing, because people don't need Core2Duos to do what they want to do.
However, the X4500 is falling behind because of HD video on Hulu, Youtube, and GPU acceleration for Flash and Web Browsers, and that little bit of stuttering is just enough to make it "not good enough".
And throw in
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11:06 AM
Like I said, the X4500 is a fine solution for the everyday user, but it's slowly becoming just not powerful enough.
Even if it can push 720 video online, once GPU acceleration hits the market in force beyond just making things look pretty, it just might not get there any more.
I would take the 9400M over the X4500 any day, because to me, it's better to have the power when you need it than risk the extra $25 and having something underperform.
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Ganja Industries, chipset maker
Sticky-icky-icky, portable notebooks
The Dro, Inc., 3G boost tech
That Steve Jobs sure is one sly businessman.
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You don't have to like the fact that non-practicing entities (i.e., "trolls") sue others based on patents they don't use. You don't have to like the fact that software is (presently) patentable. There are lots of grounds on which to prop a sensible argument against a patent. But the above isn't one of them.
Just because something is commonplace today doesn't mean it wasn't novel at some time. And under the current law, if something covered by a valid patent--i.e., an application somebody had the foresight to file BEFORE the thing became commonplace-- happens to become commonplace during the patent's (limited) term, the patentee is entitled to enforce his/her patent.
12/04/09
However, they're gamble may come from the accounting department to justify keeping $25M in the bank for 3 years, and pay the penalties later, if it is prohibitive and cost-beneficial to do so. Why pay now when you can pay later?
I do not not feel bad about it, nor I do feel good about it. But I wouldn't mind understanding the determinations that were made to either avoid, dismiss or take a position of naivety.
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01:44 AM
But what about the system you are describing? One of the primary reasons for patenting a product, service or process is to secure time and funding to create prototypes, is it not?
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"An elongated utensil featuring 2 or more tines, affixed by a handle, for the purpose of mechanically manipulating edible goods, and transporting edible goods to the mouth, by use of the hand and arm, and/or in conjunction with a knife, for the purpose of eating blah blah blah blah"
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if you ask St Claire, it falls in the catagory of patent infringement.
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(apparently there seems to be a correlation between butt farts and patent lawsuits)
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