Just to add, please explain how this was Google fighting against either patents or copyrights. Because as far as I can tell, the only way they could order such a cease and desist is through leveraging their COPYRIGHTS to their proprietary software.
The four-coins-in-a-noisy-case collections will set you back $390.44 (£239.80) each. If that's too rich for your imperial or rebel tastes, you can instead pick up single coins in silver-plated base metal for a mere $19.56 (£12.02) each.
How would not allowing overseas orders boost tourism? The point of this is to raise awareness of the island so that people will come. This is basically a huge publicity stunt taking advantage of the popularity of Star Wars to get an almost unheard of island country into the headlines.
Think about where we would be if the lawyers of today existed when say the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, television, vcr (betamax anyone?) microwave, etc.... were invented.
They did. Same with patents. One hopes you are trolling and not genuinely this stupid.
Sorry, it's not irrelevant despite what you continue to claim. Your idea leads to more code needing to be written, far more testing is needed and programs are far more likely to break and have issues than what is written now. Basically your idea is fucking stupid on pretty much all counts.
Directx is only 'cross platform' if you count different video cards and the xbox360 as different platforms.
I'm pretty sure that an Xbox 360 and a PC are different platforms. "Cross-platform" only means "runs on different platforms" it does not imply some minimum number of platforms. If I write something that works on both OS X and Windows it is "cross platform" even if it won't run on Linux or a cellphone.
Except that for unlike what you are talking about that I don't need to always keep around the Sound Blaster 16 to play that old game. Written to a portable API means I can use that same game on an old Sound Blaster or my new integrated sound card. This is what you seem to be missing.
I understand, but I was using the latter date to stave off the person that would have come along with the grand comeback of "NUH UH THEY WERE STILL SELLING TEH DRM MUSAK IN 2007 and 2008!!".
No, when I say they are expensive I'm not doing a comparison to a Wal-Mart. I've gone into numerous local stores that are selling things (DVDs, books, music, electronic equipment) at 25-30% over MSRP that one can easily look up. I've also been in many that have shitty customer service. And like I pointed out, below the post I don't shop at Wal-Mart nor do I support what they do especially when it comes to urban sprawl. I'm just not buying into this romantic nostalgia over mom and pop stores when numerous ones I've gone into have been crap and overpriced.
And, no, I do not shop at Wal-Mart before that claim comes up. Buying something cheap but it being crap is just as bad as buying something expensive that is crap.
Why would they need to keep DRM servers for music that they sell with no DRM? Or are you one of those idiots who missed the memo and didn't realize that iTunes music has been DRM-free for nearly 2 years now?
No, that's not what he said. The point is that if I don't want to shop at your expensive mom and pop store, why should I have to? Because you say I must? Despite what most people will try to claim, a lot of mom and pop shops were crap. Just because something is a small, local store does not mean it's worth a damn.
Why? This isn't the first time a music store with DRM has gone out of business. Nor is Wal-Mart's online music store very large or popular. So this will most likely lead to no one realizing anything since almost no one was buying from them anyway otherwise they would still be in business.
My issue is that Slashdot is "breaking" this story 5 days after National Geographic posted it and days after the storms already past yet the story reads like this is still an imminent event.
And that marketing depended heavily on the org's stance on free software inspiring people to try it.
No, most people tried it because a lot of users had used Netscape and Firefox was free to download. Most people didn't give a shit that it was FOSS outside of niche circles.
Exactly. Firefox is doing themselves no service by playing catch up and being a "ME TOO!" copycat. It really is sad that something that really was a great and innovative piece of software is just now a poor mishmash of ideas cloned from everyone else and usually done less well than the other products.
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Just to add, please explain how this was Google fighting against either patents or copyrights. Because as far as I can tell, the only way they could order such a cease and desist is through leveraging their COPYRIGHTS to their proprietary software.
Google is probably the only company that fights against patents, copyright and other evil things for the greater good.
Except that Google fights against none of those things?
While they were sitting around arguing over concepts, they could have been including support for multithreading.
They did include support for that. That's been a well-known piece of the new standard for nearly 2 years now.
For what? Producing licensed coins?
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You can't buy the coins at $2 a piece.
The four-coins-in-a-noisy-case collections will set you back $390.44 (£239.80) each. If that's too rich for your imperial or rebel tastes, you can instead pick up single coins in silver-plated base metal for a mere $19.56 (£12.02) each.
How would not allowing overseas orders boost tourism? The point of this is to raise awareness of the island so that people will come. This is basically a huge publicity stunt taking advantage of the popularity of Star Wars to get an almost unheard of island country into the headlines.
Yeah and? All commemorative coins like this are sold beyond the actual value of the metal in it. It's not like this is anything new.
Think about where we would be if the lawyers of today existed when say the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, television, vcr (betamax anyone?) microwave, etc.... were invented.
They did. Same with patents. One hopes you are trolling and not genuinely this stupid.
Sorry, it's not irrelevant despite what you continue to claim. Your idea leads to more code needing to be written, far more testing is needed and programs are far more likely to break and have issues than what is written now. Basically your idea is fucking stupid on pretty much all counts.
Directx is only 'cross platform' if you count different video cards and the xbox360 as different platforms.
I'm pretty sure that an Xbox 360 and a PC are different platforms. "Cross-platform" only means "runs on different platforms" it does not imply some minimum number of platforms. If I write something that works on both OS X and Windows it is "cross platform" even if it won't run on Linux or a cellphone.
Except that for unlike what you are talking about that I don't need to always keep around the Sound Blaster 16 to play that old game. Written to a portable API means I can use that same game on an old Sound Blaster or my new integrated sound card. This is what you seem to be missing.
I understand, but I was using the latter date to stave off the person that would have come along with the grand comeback of "NUH UH THEY WERE STILL SELLING TEH DRM MUSAK IN 2007 and 2008!!".
No, he would be an idiot for not finding the many free programs that will strip out the DRM.
No, when I say they are expensive I'm not doing a comparison to a Wal-Mart. I've gone into numerous local stores that are selling things (DVDs, books, music, electronic equipment) at 25-30% over MSRP that one can easily look up. I've also been in many that have shitty customer service. And like I pointed out, below the post I don't shop at Wal-Mart nor do I support what they do especially when it comes to urban sprawl. I'm just not buying into this romantic nostalgia over mom and pop stores when numerous ones I've gone into have been crap and overpriced.
And, no, I do not shop at Wal-Mart before that claim comes up. Buying something cheap but it being crap is just as bad as buying something expensive that is crap.
Why would they need to keep DRM servers for music that they sell with no DRM? Or are you one of those idiots who missed the memo and didn't realize that iTunes music has been DRM-free for nearly 2 years now?
No, that's not what he said. The point is that if I don't want to shop at your expensive mom and pop store, why should I have to? Because you say I must? Despite what most people will try to claim, a lot of mom and pop shops were crap. Just because something is a small, local store does not mean it's worth a damn.
Why? This isn't the first time a music store with DRM has gone out of business. Nor is Wal-Mart's online music store very large or popular. So this will most likely lead to no one realizing anything since almost no one was buying from them anyway otherwise they would still be in business.
Also any contract that you sign can not brake the law
Of course not. Contracts don't have feet and laws don't have brakes.
than hoping another 1859 won't happen again.
There is no need for hope. The storms passed and as you can see, nothing happened. Slashdot is just once again days late to the party.
My issue is that Slashdot is "breaking" this story 5 days after National Geographic posted it and days after the storms already past yet the story reads like this is still an imminent event.
This story is 5 days old already.
FTFY.
Yes. It is a piss poor copy of Chrome on many fronts.
And that marketing depended heavily on the org's stance on free software inspiring people to try it.
No, most people tried it because a lot of users had used Netscape and Firefox was free to download. Most people didn't give a shit that it was FOSS outside of niche circles.
Exactly. Firefox is doing themselves no service by playing catch up and being a "ME TOO!" copycat. It really is sad that something that really was a great and innovative piece of software is just now a poor mishmash of ideas cloned from everyone else and usually done less well than the other products.