To be frank, deregulation has started in the 80s, with Reagan, Thatcher in the UK, and then continued with Bush senior and Clinton. A key event being the abrogation of the Glass Stingall Act, which separated retail and investment banking. This Act had been put in place after the crisis of 1929, to... avoid a new crisis. Obviously lessons are quickly forgotten when a lot of money are involved. Watch the documentary "Inside Job" for more about this.
Where do you read the word "Apple" in my text? Your reply is idiotic, because I would have said the same for ANY company, including Samsung. But do not let the facts go in your way.
Indeed, "such rights should not be misused". So why granting bogus patents on obvious features that lead to such abuses? They should fix the system, not try workarounds!
As a geneticist, I completely agree. Furthermore, there are mutations that are particularly "troublesome" or completely lethal without affecting splicing! For instance, some muscular distrophies are caused by a single amino-acid replacement in a protein.
Yes, but only the Gallery application is concerned by the violation. Thus it is not a OS problem, just changing the Gallery in Android 2.3.4 to match the version of Android 3.0. That is most probably trivial.
Now, don't get me wrong.. I think 90% of the tablets out there look like each other; a large screen with a bezel with rounded corners and rounded-corner icons laid out on a straight grid (I so do wish Microsoft would have continued their hexagonal grid, it was refreshing).
But that is the point of these court hearings. Apple does not use patents or copyright, but merely aspect or design. They got an injuction on the basis that they filled a device drawing that is rectangular and black. This existed long before Apple, and should be taken into account in the court. Furthermore, in the German decision, Samsung was not even notified and did not defend their case!
That is a fallacy. The problem is exactly the same for imperial units, e.g. when you want to cut a yard into tens. If you round down, obviously the sum of all parts will not match the size of the whole. Nothing prevents you to cut a meter board into thirds, the same way you can cut a foot into ten pieces. Do you think that buildings are badly adjusted in the rest of the world?
I am sure that with the money they spend in Windows licenses, they could have bought new compatible printers and scanners. Come on, most high grade, networked all-in-one printers and scanners are compatible with Linux.
Well, for their sake, it better be. Because if it were not binding, default copyright regulation would apply and these companies would not have the right to reuse and redistribute this code from the first place. Arguing GPL does not apply (as SCO claimed in the past) is shooting in its own foot.
This has nothing to do with the government, it is a consumer association, that wants consumer laws to be applied (laws that exist in most of countries in the world that regulate bundles of goods and services). The tile of the original article is stupid and misleading.
Simple: thanks to the Bible, the number Pi is exactly equal to 3, which is simple to remember and has a lot of advantages, like being rational. Whereas the scientific answer for pi makes it extremely complex and annoying. With religion, Man would have built rockets to the Moon a lot earlier than in the late 20th century.
The trial was not cancelled "because of Wikipedia", it was cancelled because a juror did not respect the procedure, as much as it would not be "because of the Press" if the juror had brought a newspaper in.
I guess that you would not want to be able to "wave" a payment over 100 meters, but only on close proximity scanners. Anyway, they need to implement this really well to prevent fraud. Waht could possibly go wrong?:)
Well, MKV has been around for a while, and having an Xvid file within MKV was very common before being used to encapsulate h264. I really don't care what the public think when the discussion becomes technical. Being accurate never hurts, and if you want to look dumb when trying to have a tech conversation about digital video that's your problem...
So if I put the picture of a 18th century painting on the cover of my book, I cannot sell it because it was repaired/restored in the last 20 years ? Since when restoration resets the copyright of an artist? And to whom goes the copyright? The museum ? This has no legal basis at all.
[...]enabling passengers to connect to the vehicle's network without affecting the battery life of their connected devices.
Can someone explain this? or is it just marketing bs? As far as I know, the battery life of the devices that are connected to some access point or router is not affected by the nature of the router. The fact it uses low power components is important for the car's battery (or fuel consumption), not for the attached device! Or am I missing something?
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/etc/hosts is still present in Arch, you do not know what you are talking about.
To be frank, deregulation has started in the 80s, with Reagan, Thatcher in the UK, and then continued with Bush senior and Clinton. A key event being the abrogation of the Glass Stingall Act, which separated retail and investment banking. This Act had been put in place after the crisis of 1929, to... avoid a new crisis. Obviously lessons are quickly forgotten when a lot of money are involved. Watch the documentary "Inside Job" for more about this.
Where do you read the word "Apple" in my text? Your reply is idiotic, because I would have said the same for ANY company, including Samsung. But do not let the facts go in your way.
Indeed, "such rights should not be misused". So why granting bogus patents on obvious features that lead to such abuses? They should fix the system, not try workarounds!
As a geneticist, I completely agree. Furthermore, there are mutations that are particularly "troublesome" or completely lethal without affecting splicing! For instance, some muscular distrophies are caused by a single amino-acid replacement in a protein.
True, but this also depends on which class of medicine. There there are also some efficacy data collected with vaccines.
Yes, but only the Gallery application is concerned by the violation. Thus it is not a OS problem, just changing the Gallery in Android 2.3.4 to match the version of Android 3.0. That is most probably trivial.
Because as the court noted, their tablets are already under Android 3.0, and therefore are not affected by the patent. That's what they meant.
I learned from *MY* CS teachers back in the 90s that all cryptography is crackable given enough time.
Well, they forgot to teach you about the one-time pad.
Now, don't get me wrong..
I think 90% of the tablets out there look like each other; a large screen with a bezel with rounded corners and rounded-corner icons laid out on a straight grid (I so do wish Microsoft would have continued their hexagonal grid, it was refreshing).
But that is the point of these court hearings. Apple does not use patents or copyright, but merely aspect or design. They got an injuction on the basis that they filled a device drawing that is rectangular and black. This existed long before Apple, and should be taken into account in the court. Furthermore, in the German decision, Samsung was not even notified and did not defend their case!
Samsung is now showing to a court in Netherland 20 cases of prior art in tablets, such as this one from 1994: the Knight Rider http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2011/04/tablet-computers-as-seen-from-1994.html As seen on these videos, this looked exactlty like an iPad! You may follow the courtroom debates thanks to Andreas Udo de Haes https://twitter.com/#!/andreasudo and on OsNews: http://www.osnews.com/
This reminds me this excellent book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3
That is a fallacy. The problem is exactly the same for imperial units, e.g. when you want to cut a yard into tens. If you round down, obviously the sum of all parts will not match the size of the whole. Nothing prevents you to cut a meter board into thirds, the same way you can cut a foot into ten pieces. Do you think that buildings are badly adjusted in the rest of the world?
I am sure that with the money they spend in Windows licenses, they could have bought new compatible printers and scanners. Come on, most high grade, networked all-in-one printers and scanners are compatible with Linux.
Is the GPL legally binding in Australia?
Well, for their sake, it better be. Because if it were not binding, default copyright regulation would apply and these companies would not have the right to reuse and redistribute this code from the first place. Arguing GPL does not apply (as SCO claimed in the past) is shooting in its own foot.
This has nothing to do with the government, it is a consumer association, that wants consumer laws to be applied (laws that exist in most of countries in the world that regulate bundles of goods and services). The tile of the original article is stupid and misleading.
Out of curiosity, like what?
Simple: thanks to the Bible, the number Pi is exactly equal to 3, which is simple to remember and has a lot of advantages, like being rational. Whereas the scientific answer for pi makes it extremely complex and annoying. With religion, Man would have built rockets to the Moon a lot earlier than in the late 20th century.
The trial was not cancelled "because of Wikipedia", it was cancelled because a juror did not respect the procedure, as much as it would not be "because of the Press" if the juror had brought a newspaper in.
I guess that you would not want to be able to "wave" a payment over 100 meters, but only on close proximity scanners. Anyway, they need to implement this really well to prevent fraud. Waht could possibly go wrong? :)
Well, MKV has been around for a while, and having an Xvid file within MKV was very common before being used to encapsulate h264. I really don't care what the public think when the discussion becomes technical. Being accurate never hurts, and if you want to look dumb when trying to have a tech conversation about digital video that's your problem...
So if I put the picture of a 18th century painting on the cover of my book, I cannot sell it because it was repaired/restored in the last 20 years ? Since when restoration resets the copyright of an artist? And to whom goes the copyright? The museum ? This has no legal basis at all.
Since when in the UK you cannot make money with Public Domain stuff ?
We're talking about a Foxnews report here... Scientific accuracy is not their priority.
Isn't the problem with Oracle here? It should not be that difficult to fix their software. What's the difference with Summer time change?
[...]enabling passengers to connect to the vehicle's network without affecting the battery life of their connected devices.
Can someone explain this? or is it just marketing bs? As far as I know, the battery life of the devices that are connected to some access point or router is not affected by the nature of the router. The fact it uses low power components is important for the car's battery (or fuel consumption), not for the attached device! Or am I missing something?