In this case, the trademark holder was actively blocking sale of their product on Amazon and then suing Amazon for suggesting similar products that they did have in stock...
The audacity is jaw-dropping.
To me it isn't. Can you go into a retail store and see a sign that says "Apple products" with nothing underneath them, and then a big arrow pointing to Samsung, HP, Acer tablets and laptops? That's the assertion here is that you can't use the word "Apple" with bupkis there. I'm pretty sure I've never seen that done - and probably because it's been litigated away by manufacturers and trademark holders.
This is essentially what Amazon is doing by routing searches to competitor's products. Arguably with the retail logic above, the retailer (Amazon) would need to use a generic like "laptops/tablets" instead of the leading mark (ie, Apple).
Artificially limiting what versions of the OS can run their other software is a huge annoyance of windows. There is no reason why this and newer DirectX could not be back ported to XP.
This is also why people hate Mozilla - because they refuse to support newer FF on older OS's like XP?
The scanners are not the problem. The patdowns are not the problem. The fact that these things are there is the problem. Bullshit things like this airport logic are the problem. The fact that almost nobody complains is the problem. Another nice read from scientificamerican.com
The security theater and everything that comes with it is the real problem.
Security theatre isn't the problem, it's a symptom of the military-industrial-complex (now branching out into pervasive monitoring and other totalitarian activities). The problem is the idea that we're constantly at war (with other countries, illegal aliens, drugs, sexuality). I'm not a pure libertarian, but this is the most fundamental agreement I have with libertarians: that sacrificing freedom for the appearance of security is a sure sign you're going to lose all your freedoms... one by one.
TSA and DHS are the latest symptoms of decades-long degradation of war-oriented policy.
Sorry but most of us actually have to use non-web apps like spreadsheets, IDEs, and groupware/office.
Spreadsheets: Google Docs -- far more useful than an unshared document anyway.
Glad GDocs spreadsheets works for you. You can't however simply dismiss "unshared" spreadsheets like that.
GDocs is missing very many features for almost all of my work use cases. Plus offline/non-cloud is useful for those areas where we can't legally "share" the info we're slicing/dicing/preparing-for-customers (yes some big orgs use Google Docs - even some of my customers, but as my work organization isn't doing so, I can't do so in general - thus I still need an offline spreadsheet tool, and one that has all those features that gdocs does not).
Inferior OS? I dunno. I have a Samsung Chromebook and a MacBook Air, and for most work I prefer the Chromebook -- mostly because the OS gets in my way a lot less than OS X does.
If your "work" cosists entirely of web browsing, then I guess ChromeOS is a better OS. Sorry but most of us actually have to use non-web apps like spreadsheets, IDEs, and groupware/office. Also, I can't use Chrome in all cases even for web usage because I need to test my code on multiple client architectures.
A chromebook for $250-$500 sounds like a pretty good deal ($250 for those unsure about a laptop that only runs a web browser, $500 for those who like the chromebook concept and want better hardware). Why would I pay 4x more than the entry-level model - what kind of product marketing group signed off on this?
A 13" retina-class Chromebook for the same price as a MB Air (which has better specs aside from the screen and runs a real OS) just sounds crazy.
MS wins more than it loses and it's up to "who" lets them win more than if the company is second rate. Simply put, they come a knocken send them packing or you'll pay for it! I don't like their way of doing business but it's how I see them.
1. it's got adblockplus 2. it's the only browser left that isn't directly targeted at marketing interests over my privacy (you worry about holes, but then trust google??) 3. a useful library of plugins. sure other browsers have this now, but not like firefox.
does that excuse the performance issues? hell no.
Performance? Try loading even a 15MB XML file with moderate hierarchy to be rendered in Chrome (on either Win or OSX). Damn thing keeps falling down on large-ish files (I don't have extensions other than 1password). Firefox and IE handle them well (but I would never use IE to browse anything but our intranet).
Chrome is great, but I use it despite the performance.
Perhaps this is a good thing. The whole co-CEO business may look good, but there's a reason there aren't more co-leadership (or triumvirate) roles in leading companies (even GOOG ditched the triumvirate idea and shifted to a front-man+visionary model). This isn't a buddy cop movie where everything is scripted. CEOs of organizations in heavily competing markets actually do things.
He's managed to paint the government as a corrupt agency of fat-cat Democrats
I wish this where true. He spent the bulk of the time during the debates and afterwards complaining the problem was Republicans. I agree with you about being glad he is retiring. I wish they would all "retire" after 2 or 3 terms.
Ah, the whole term-limit thing... you see, the problem is that the lobbyiests and staffers quite well *do not* have term limits, and most legistlation is written by them these days. The head politician is just a figurehead, a "brand".
What you mean is he wants to use force to make someone give him their property.
I disagree with the MikeRoweSoft.com thing even more. It was clearly nothing like microsoft.com. Anyone who would be confused by that would be too stupid to type.
Clearly, Microsoft was prescient enough to visage the future creation of the iPhone, then Siri, who would have no problem confusing the two sites. With that kind of future knowledge, I'm pretty sure I would have made the same decision as MSFT legal.
A better question would be, what system would allow 1000 password guesses per second to be authenticated?
Irrelevant, as the cracking will happen offline after the bad guys have stolen your PW DB by exploiting other weaknesses in your system
So if a key-stretched[1] implementation results in only enhanced keys (ie, bcrypted for 65k hashing operations) in the database, would that be enough to rely on app-level password valiation delays and lockouts?
Unless I'm mistaken the math is straightforward; at C the trip would seem instantaneous to the traveler, so half C a 50 light year trip would seem like 25.
No, at C it would take 50 years, thus the 50 light-years distance. Consequently, the time taken at (maximum) 0.5C would probably be well over a hundred years subjective - as acceleration/deceleration would put the average speed lower than the max speed.
Meaning almost 1/3 of the current stock value is backed by actual cash in the bank.
Not sure if you realize this or not, but this is actually a horribly bad thing. A company sitting on a mountain of cash is a dying beast.
Romney? Is that you again?
Look, it's easy to find a revenue-starved "small" $1B company you can leverage and loot, but $137B is a lot even for the biggest corporate raiders.
That is truly fuck-off money and signs Apple is beholden to none but themselves (and perhaps their customer base who makes the remainder of their stock valuation possible).
Companies don't go under or get raided just because they have cash, it's because they have cash (i.e., loot) and they are also experiencing a credit squeeze or revenue shortfall. Apple is suffering from neither and hasn't for more than a decade.
A few months ago I tried this out, and all it got me were weird people parking on my curb (esp. at nighttime), sometimes with the radio thumping, sometimes peeling out. One time I opened the blinds to see what was going on and I could swear there was a drug deal happening. Since then, I've stopped the sharing (and gotten stronger motion-sensitive lighting for the sidewalk/driveway area).
I'm not at all concerned about the traffic/usage, just that the people who want the free wifi tend to be people I don't want hanging out in front of my house at odd hours.
On a typical linux distro like fedora I could have every app I'm ever likely to use _and_ their developer libraries in just under 10gb, always makes me wonder why windows is so much larger and provides so much less.
More relevant, iOS6 only takes about 1GB of space (iOS1 took only several hundred MB), and even if you want to compare apples to apples, OSX clean install of mountain lion easily fits in 10GB.
40GB of os+delivered apps is pretty insane. WTF are they installing in there?
Unfortunately many browsers still run 32bit even on 64bit systems because of plugin compatibility. Time to move to 64 bit browser processes.
Notably, Google Chrome, as well as Firefox are 32-bit. Amusingly in Win8 RT, since IE is the only legitimate browser for Metro, the new tablets are resistant to this attack. It's sad that big-time browsers don't have 64 bit builds, and that you have to roll your own (Firefox - I use Waterfox) or just suffer under IA32 legacy.
Better idea don't tax companies, tax people. I don't know who thought taxing companies was a good idea, I haven't heard a single reason why we should be doing it and all it does is worsen an already terrifying labor region issue.
Taxing companies SOUNDS like a tax on the rich, but it's really a tax on everyone: people that pay for the tax via sales, and then people who pay for higher income taxes due to the need to fund various benefits that tie in to unemployment (including unemployment itself, but also some of the other social services that the unemployed may use that those with jobs may not).
Not taxing companies would only make sense if all companies are mandated to be not-for-profit. Otherwise, you have the ultimate tax loophole (see dividends, loans without repayment terms and other vehicles a controlling company owner/investor can use to pay him/her self without actually drawing salary).
No, companies and corporations are already massively tax-exempt due to not being taxed on revenue, but profits. I wish I had that kind of racket going. I'd pay no taxes and be a wonderful "job creator".
Agree in part, but as long as 80% of the voters watch Fox News and attack ads and do what the rest of the 80% of America tells them to do we're going to end up with more of the same.
Fox News, while it's still king of cable news, pales in comparison to plain old non-cable news. They literally have a vieweship of single digits of Americans (or maybe in the 10-20% of eligible voters).
The problem isn't just Fox - it's all news, even liberal darling MSNBC - that are effectively owned by the military industrial complex. Until that changes, public opinion is alwasy going to favor the rich corporatist.
This means that most slashdot posters are safe. Seriously, the worst spelling and grammar I see online are right here amongst what should be a well-educated group of people.
It's even uprated seemly for the bad grammar and spelling. I think it's a sign saying "I'm not a bot - at least not a simpleton".
How many children are produced in the Western world? How many children are produced in the emerging world? Who is the less ignorant? BTW I use ignorant, and not less intelligent here. Drum roll, less children in western world, and less ignorant people in the western world. You could argue that the western world is being drowned out by ignorant emerging world people. The irony here is that as we become more knowleagable we produce less children, dooming our society so to speak. However, with enough generations that ignorance is removed.
Your argument (though a bit shallow) is entirely the reason why having porous and fair immigration policy is a good idea - if we attract the best and brightest, teach, and employ them, or if we attract the hardest working (i.e., undocumented workers are some of the hardest working folks in the USA), the country as a whole will prosper.
Closing the country's borders? Yeah, the society will age like Japan's did.
People who have real work to do are already using XFCE.
Did you ever consider that some folks who cut their teeth on Gnome 2.x UI are just vastly more productive using that interface? For those folks, this is a big draw.
Why should I change my comfortable UI habits just because some OS Distro (ie, Microsoft, Canonical, etc) wants change for change's sake? I'm sure there's as much to hate about XFCE as Gnome2. To each their own.
Lots of sci-fi has the idea of "grown" spacecraft (references: Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn series, Dyson Trees, etc). Perhaps this would help us understand enough to move towards realistic spacecraft generation (build it in the environment in which it's going to operate it, and even better - have it build itself).
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In this case, the trademark holder was actively blocking sale of their product on Amazon and then suing Amazon for suggesting similar products that they did have in stock...
The audacity is jaw-dropping.
To me it isn't. Can you go into a retail store and see a sign that says "Apple products" with nothing underneath them, and then a big arrow pointing to Samsung, HP, Acer tablets and laptops? That's the assertion here is that you can't use the word "Apple" with bupkis there. I'm pretty sure I've never seen that done - and probably because it's been litigated away by manufacturers and trademark holders.
This is essentially what Amazon is doing by routing searches to competitor's products. Arguably with the retail logic above, the retailer (Amazon) would need to use a generic like "laptops/tablets" instead of the leading mark (ie, Apple).
Artificially limiting what versions of the OS can run their other software is a huge annoyance of windows. There is no reason why this and newer DirectX could not be back ported to XP.
This is also why people hate Mozilla - because they refuse to support newer FF on older OS's like XP?
The scanners are not the problem. The patdowns are not the problem. The fact that these things are there is the problem.
Bullshit things like this airport logic are the problem.
The fact that almost nobody complains is the problem.
Another nice read from scientificamerican.com
The security theater and everything that comes with it is the real problem.
Security theatre isn't the problem, it's a symptom of the military-industrial-complex (now branching out into pervasive monitoring and other totalitarian activities). The problem is the idea that we're constantly at war (with other countries, illegal aliens, drugs, sexuality). I'm not a pure libertarian, but this is the most fundamental agreement I have with libertarians: that sacrificing freedom for the appearance of security is a sure sign you're going to lose all your freedoms... one by one.
TSA and DHS are the latest symptoms of decades-long degradation of war-oriented policy.
Sorry but most of us actually have to use non-web apps like spreadsheets, IDEs, and groupware/office.
Spreadsheets: Google Docs -- far more useful than an unshared document anyway.
Glad GDocs spreadsheets works for you. You can't however simply dismiss "unshared" spreadsheets like that.
GDocs is missing very many features for almost all of my work use cases. Plus offline/non-cloud is useful for those areas where we can't legally "share" the info we're slicing/dicing/preparing-for-customers (yes some big orgs use Google Docs - even some of my customers, but as my work organization isn't doing so, I can't do so in general - thus I still need an offline spreadsheet tool, and one that has all those features that gdocs does not).
Perhaps in a few years.
Inferior OS? I dunno. I have a Samsung Chromebook and a MacBook Air, and for most work I prefer the Chromebook -- mostly because the OS gets in my way a lot less than OS X does.
If your "work" cosists entirely of web browsing, then I guess ChromeOS is a better OS. Sorry but most of us actually have to use non-web apps like spreadsheets, IDEs, and groupware/office. Also, I can't use Chrome in all cases even for web usage because I need to test my code on multiple client architectures.
A chromebook for $250-$500 sounds like a pretty good deal ($250 for those unsure about a laptop that only runs a web browser, $500 for those who like the chromebook concept and want better hardware). Why would I pay 4x more than the entry-level model - what kind of product marketing group signed off on this?
A 13" retina-class Chromebook for the same price as a MB Air (which has better specs aside from the screen and runs a real OS) just sounds crazy.
MS wins more than it loses and it's up to "who" lets them win more than if the company is second rate. Simply put, they come a knocken send them packing or you'll pay for it! I don't like their way of doing business but it's how I see them.
Guess what, they will be right back knocking on your door threatening patent infringement of hidden patent lists: http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=2011111122291296
Sure you could fight - or you could partner, CEO/board cashes out and lets their company nosedive.
1. it's got adblockplus
2. it's the only browser left that isn't directly targeted at marketing interests over my privacy (you worry about holes, but then trust google??)
3. a useful library of plugins. sure other browsers have this now, but not like firefox.
does that excuse the performance issues? hell no.
Performance? Try loading even a 15MB XML file with moderate hierarchy to be rendered in Chrome (on either Win or OSX). Damn thing keeps falling down on large-ish files (I don't have extensions other than 1password). Firefox and IE handle them well (but I would never use IE to browse anything but our intranet).
Chrome is great, but I use it despite the performance.
Or you know that someone with deep pockets paid him to do so, lowering the prices and rendering the company vulnerable to a Hostile Takeover.
Do you know Siemens VDO, I mean, Continental A/G, I mean, Schaeffler Group? :-)
So if this is intended to sink the stock it looks like it failed.
Perhaps this is a good thing. The whole co-CEO business may look good, but there's a reason there aren't more co-leadership (or triumvirate) roles in leading companies (even GOOG ditched the triumvirate idea and shifted to a front-man+visionary model). This isn't a buddy cop movie where everything is scripted. CEOs of organizations in heavily competing markets actually do things.
He's managed to paint the government as a corrupt agency of fat-cat Democrats
I wish this where true. He spent the bulk of the time during the debates and afterwards complaining the problem was Republicans. I agree with you about being glad he is retiring. I wish they would all "retire" after 2 or 3 terms.
Ah, the whole term-limit thing... you see, the problem is that the lobbyiests and staffers quite well *do not* have term limits, and most legistlation is written by them these days. The head politician is just a figurehead, a "brand".
What you mean is he wants to use force to make someone give him their property.
I disagree with the MikeRoweSoft.com thing even more. It was clearly nothing like microsoft.com. Anyone who would be confused by that would be too stupid to type.
Clearly, Microsoft was prescient enough to visage the future creation of the iPhone, then Siri, who would have no problem confusing the two sites. With that kind of future knowledge, I'm pretty sure I would have made the same decision as MSFT legal.
A better question would be, what system would allow 1000 password guesses per second to be authenticated?
Irrelevant, as the cracking will happen offline after the bad guys have stolen your PW DB by exploiting other weaknesses in your system
So if a key-stretched[1] implementation results in only enhanced keys (ie, bcrypted for 65k hashing operations) in the database, would that be enough to rely on app-level password valiation delays and lockouts?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_stretching
Unless I'm mistaken the math is straightforward; at C the trip would seem instantaneous to the traveler, so half C a 50 light year trip would seem like 25.
No, at C it would take 50 years, thus the 50 light-years distance. Consequently, the time taken at (maximum) 0.5C would probably be well over a hundred years subjective - as acceleration/deceleration would put the average speed lower than the max speed.
Meaning almost 1/3 of the current stock value is backed by actual cash in the bank.
Not sure if you realize this or not, but this is actually a horribly bad thing. A company sitting on a mountain of cash is a dying beast.
Romney? Is that you again?
Look, it's easy to find a revenue-starved "small" $1B company you can leverage and loot, but $137B is a lot even for the biggest corporate raiders.
That is truly fuck-off money and signs Apple is beholden to none but themselves (and perhaps their customer base who makes the remainder of their stock valuation possible).
Companies don't go under or get raided just because they have cash, it's because they have cash (i.e., loot) and they are also experiencing a credit squeeze or revenue shortfall. Apple is suffering from neither and hasn't for more than a decade.
A few months ago I tried this out, and all it got me were weird people parking on my curb (esp. at nighttime), sometimes with the radio thumping, sometimes peeling out. One time I opened the blinds to see what was going on and I could swear there was a drug deal happening. Since then, I've stopped the sharing (and gotten stronger motion-sensitive lighting for the sidewalk/driveway area).
I'm not at all concerned about the traffic/usage, just that the people who want the free wifi tend to be people I don't want hanging out in front of my house at odd hours.
On a typical linux distro like fedora I could have every app I'm ever likely to use _and_ their developer libraries in just under 10gb, always makes me wonder why windows is so much larger and provides so much less.
More relevant, iOS6 only takes about 1GB of space (iOS1 took only several hundred MB), and even if you want to compare apples to apples, OSX clean install of mountain lion easily fits in 10GB.
40GB of os+delivered apps is pretty insane. WTF are they installing in there?
Unfortunately many browsers still run 32bit even on 64bit systems because of plugin compatibility. Time to move to 64 bit browser processes.
Notably, Google Chrome, as well as Firefox are 32-bit. Amusingly in Win8 RT, since IE is the only legitimate browser for Metro, the new tablets are resistant to this attack. It's sad that big-time browsers don't have 64 bit builds, and that you have to roll your own (Firefox - I use Waterfox) or just suffer under IA32 legacy.
Better idea don't tax companies, tax people. I don't know who thought taxing companies was a good idea, I haven't heard a single reason why we should be doing it and all it does is worsen an already terrifying labor region issue.
Taxing companies SOUNDS like a tax on the rich, but it's really a tax on everyone: people that pay for the tax via sales, and then people who pay for higher income taxes due to the need to fund various benefits that tie in to unemployment (including unemployment itself, but also some of the other social services that the unemployed may use that those with jobs may not).
Not taxing companies would only make sense if all companies are mandated to be not-for-profit. Otherwise, you have the ultimate tax loophole (see dividends, loans without repayment terms and other vehicles a controlling company owner/investor can use to pay him/her self without actually drawing salary).
No, companies and corporations are already massively tax-exempt due to not being taxed on revenue, but profits. I wish I had that kind of racket going. I'd pay no taxes and be a wonderful "job creator".
Agree in part, but as long as 80% of the voters watch Fox News and attack ads and do what the rest of the 80% of America tells them to do we're going to end up with more of the same.
Fox News, while it's still king of cable news, pales in comparison to plain old non-cable news. They literally have a vieweship of single digits of Americans (or maybe in the 10-20% of eligible voters).
The problem isn't just Fox - it's all news, even liberal darling MSNBC - that are effectively owned by the military industrial complex. Until that changes, public opinion is alwasy going to favor the rich corporatist.
You can read more here, http://www.folklore.org/
Folklore.org paints an extremely rosy picture of Jobs compare to what the people in the photo on the top of the page say in person.
When replying to a reference, it's good to provide your own for rebuttal. Where's your cite?
This means that most slashdot posters are safe. Seriously, the worst spelling and grammar I see online are right here amongst what should be a well-educated group of people.
It's even uprated seemly for the bad grammar and spelling. I think it's a sign saying "I'm not a bot - at least not a simpleton".
How many children are produced in the Western world? How many children are produced in the emerging world? Who is the less ignorant? BTW I use ignorant, and not less intelligent here. Drum roll, less children in western world, and less ignorant people in the western world. You could argue that the western world is being drowned out by ignorant emerging world people. The irony here is that as we become more knowleagable we produce less children, dooming our society so to speak. However, with enough generations that ignorance is removed.
Your argument (though a bit shallow) is entirely the reason why having porous and fair immigration policy is a good idea - if we attract the best and brightest, teach, and employ them, or if we attract the hardest working (i.e., undocumented workers are some of the hardest working folks in the USA), the country as a whole will prosper.
Closing the country's borders? Yeah, the society will age like Japan's did.
People who have real work to do are already using XFCE.
Did you ever consider that some folks who cut their teeth on Gnome 2.x UI are just vastly more productive using that interface? For those folks, this is a big draw.
Why should I change my comfortable UI habits just because some OS Distro (ie, Microsoft, Canonical, etc) wants change for change's sake? I'm sure there's as much to hate about XFCE as Gnome2. To each their own.
Lots of sci-fi has the idea of "grown" spacecraft (references: Peter F Hamilton's Night's Dawn series, Dyson Trees, etc). Perhaps this would help us understand enough to move towards realistic spacecraft generation (build it in the environment in which it's going to operate it, and even better - have it build itself).