You selectively chose countries with high population densities. Canada, Mongolia, Russia are all have much lower densities.
You might want to have a look at the world map of countries redistributed by population:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/25109
Note how the US is one of the four countries that doesn't move. That means its population density is approximately the average across the world.
What's the point of having a 'busa when you are always riding at legal speed? I'd rather pay the ticket.
Well, then either they can't operate in both jurisdictions, or they have to find a way to structure the company so that all EU customer data only resides in the EU and is therefore not subject to US subponeas.
The European subsidiaries of twitter will be fined?
If literally every piece of of the infrastructure resides in the US, then sure, the EU has no jurisdiction. But if they are operating servers or networking infrastructure in the EU, they are still subject to EU laws.
No. Start with a premise that people have the right to do business with each other, consensually as long as neither force nor fraud is involved.
That is an ideological argument not an economic one. Also, it is still the equivalent of starting with the conclusion and massaging everything else with the goal of arriving there, just like the GP said.
Well, but it is a trust fund, not an investment fund. I.e. a large percentage of the investment revenues will actually go towards funding the museum and other activities. So they do all that, and STILL grow. That is not bad at all.
In that case, WebM definitely violates H.264 patents. I am bringing out the popcorn - this is going to be fun!
It would be hard to argue that AMD has a monopoly, so therefore you are right - it is unlikely they'd be forced.
However, if NVIDIA really needs that tech, they can just start violating the patent. AMD sues. NVIDIA countersues AMD for violation of NVIDIA patents (it is almost guaranteed that MAD violates some of NVIDIA's patents). In the end, they either fight it out in court, or reach a settlement. Either way, the resolution of the conflict is that somebody determines the difference in value between the patent violations, and that difference gets paid. So either NVIDIA pays the difference to AMD, or vice versa. And afterwards, both parties have licenses of each other's patent portfolios. Kinda like what just happened between NVIDIA and Intel.
The only downside of this approach is that it might end up costing NVIDIA a pretty penny, but if they really think they need to use x86-64, this is one way to do so.
Because Intel just doesn't take drivers seriously. Unlike, say, audio or networking hardware, the drivers for GPUs implement a lot of the actual API (OpenGL or Direct 3D). Drivers are a crucial component in the GPU system design, and Intel just never got that.
That is one of the (several) reasons why NVIDIA won't open source their drivers. They actually do have significant trade secrets in that domain.
Yeah, but search is hard, both algorithmically, and in terms of infrastructure (you have to index damn near everything before it becomes useful). With social networking, not only is the software relatively trivial, but you also rely on a hipness factor, which makes it more risky. All it takes is a small group of teens moving to a different site because then their parents don't see what messages they exchange. Before you blink, that can expand into a whole generation moving to a different site, just like the migration from myspace to facebook.
Right, because not agreeing to fund something is the same thing as banning it.
An how exactly is that relevant to developing for iOS? The fact is that Apple's business model requires people to develop for iOS. And right now, the only way to do that is using a mac.
Not true, depending on the materials your final product requires. The Objet technology used in the article can't do metal etc, but it can do a wide range of plastics (including blends of different plastics) at a quality comparable to traditional plastics manufacturing processes. The resin-based process eliminates air enclosures and structural problems that plague other technologies like FDM (basically what the reprap project does).
Disclaimer: I am using a lower-end Objet on a regular basis, but I am not affiliated with these guys.
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
