Just to be clear - the only indignation I expressed was at the use of the term civil disobedience. And if I'm not mistaken, that indignation was AGAINST Adbusters, not Google.
I did say that I found their efforts laudable - (def'n - deserving praise or commendation) - and if you're interested, it was because a group found a bad thing (in their opinion) happening commercially, and have a plan to thwart it, using Google's (perceived) own evil against them. You'll note that my post is successive to an earlier one suggesting that Google's behavior may be actionable in court - hence, my cursory acceptance that the claim is true, i.e., Google is being evil, and evil is punishable.
I even made fun of myself in the first paragraph by noting that I usually endorse google in my use of everyday language.
I think you are either having a very bad day or have an under-constrained definition of the word prick.
Your idea that I have a problem with success, successful people, or successful companies, is actually and entirely your own problem.
I you want to learn a lot about civil disobedience, web search "civil disobedience carl cohen howard zinn" - and I note that for once I didn't say to google it.
I studied under Carl Cohen - and highly recommend reading everything by him and Zinn if you want clear thinking on this topic.
The act of overloading Google with this plan is something that I personally find quite laudable - but it is not civil disobedience. As an ancient hippie, I don't mind saying that this act is simply called, Sticking It To The Man. I'm saddened that today's Man-Stickers are so inundated with political correctness that they can't call an action for what it is.
As Carl might have said - they emasculate their argument by so doing.
FWIW, it's not the summary - the stupidity of calling it civil disobedience comes right from TFA.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's hoping for a Patrick Stewart casting. DS9 or Voyager Movies? Eck. A new TV Series with Picard.. and Data!? Amazing!
And I'm sure I'm not the only one retching at the idea of any more Patrick Steward/Picard.
For the younger among us who may have missed it (this was early spam), I present the top 100 reasons why Kirk is better than Picard:
: 100. Kirk is a leader, not a follower. : 99. Kirk never really got into that kinky "Jumpsuit" look. : 98. Kirk has sex more than once a season. : 97. One Word: Hair. : 96. Another Word: Pretty-good-looking-can't-see-the weave-WIG. : 95. Kirk can beat up a Klingon bare-handed. : 94. Picard is a French man with an English accent. : 93. Kirk would date Beverly Crusher -- and damn the consequences!! : 92. Kirk never drinks tea. Ever. : 91. Diplomacy for Kirk is a phaser and a smirk. : 90. Kirk would personally throw Wesley off his bridge. : 89. Two words: Shoulder Roll. : 88. Kirk doesn't wear dresses when admirals arrive for lunch. : 87. Kirk once said: "I've got a belly-ache -- and it's a beauty." : 86. Kirk would never sing to children in a crisis. : 85. Kirk can almost drive a stick shift. : 84. Kirk, almost single-handedly, re-populated the Earth's whale population. : 83. Kirk says "Prime Directive? What Prime Directive?" : 82. Kirk knows 20th Century curses. : 81. Kirk was NEVER infiltrated by the Borg and used against the Federation. : 80. Kirk ate little coloured cubes and still remained relatively healthy. : 79. Kirk made do with obviously low performance technology. : 78. Kirk never pretends to be a barber in order to gain a tactical advantage. : 77. Kirk wasn't shy about taken his shirt off -- even around those pesky Yeomans. : 76. Kirk would never waste a holodeck on something stupid like Dixon Hill. : 75. Kirk never once stood up and had to straighten his shirt. : 74. One Word: Velour. : 73. Kirk can beat a Vulcan at Chess. : 72. When Kirk was Picard's age, he retired from Admiral and took to climbing rocks. : 71. When Picard was 37, he was only Captain of the lowly freighter Stargazer. When Kirk was 37, he was Captain of the flagship Enterprise. : 70. Kirk liked a good belt of liquor every now and again. : 69. One Word: Iman. : 68. Kirk looks good with a ripped shirt. : 67. If Kirk ever met a Ferengi, he would rip off its head and shit down its neck. : 66. Kirk says, "Shoot first and wait for retaliation." : 65. Kirk's first officer NEVER tells him to stay on the bridge. : 64. Kirk never leaves the room to bawl somebody out. : 63. Kirk doesn't rely on the wisdom of some dumb old janitor to get him out of intergalactic scrapes. : 62. Two Words: Funky Sideburns. : 61. Kirk never asks his bartender for advice. : 60. Kirk never once said "Abandon ship! All hands abandon ship!" : 59. Kirk is not politically correct. : 58. Kirk never got "dumped" by a woman for an intergalactic busy body named after a letter of the alphabet. : 57. Kirk never wore green tights and frolicked about in Sherwood Forest. : 56. If there was ever a Klingon on Kirk's bridge, Kirk would likely be dead. : 55. Ever hear of a bar shooter called "Make it so?" No? How about a "Beam me up Scotty" then? See the difference? : 54. One Word: Miniskirts. : 53. Kirk's girlfriends always look good in soft light. : 52. Kirk never went anywhere without a whole bunch of guys in red shirts. : 51. Kirk's first officer didn't play some wimpy instrument like the trombone. : 50. Kirk had more dates than his first officer. : 49. The extent of Kirk's knowledge of Klingon vocabulary can be roughly translated as " GO F*CK YOURSELF." : 48. If something doesn't speak English -- it's toast. : 47. Kirk wasn't some prissy archaeology fan. : 46. Picard's middle name isn't tough or awe-inspiring like Tiberius is. : 45. If Kirk finds a strange spinning probe, he blows it up. : 44. Picard neve
I have no clue, access to BitTorrent, behind the Great Firewall of China. But from what I've read (horror stories) about net activities being traced and questioned, I'd use an illegal Apple Store access rather than BitTorrent.
"Yes, Comrade Prosecutor - tell me what I did wrong ripping off the imperialists," sounds like a better defense than, "I promise I wasn't looking at porn."
I'd argue that's a colloquial use of the term monopoly rather than an economic one - from (yeah, I know - sorry) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.
As you're aware of this, I assert - by completely making this fact up - that there are no areas served exclusively by AT&T, hence, viable substitutes exist.
How does creating a device tied to your store not meet the definition of an unfair monopoly?
Well - because it's not a monopoly at all. To clarify, suppose Apple NEVER released a development kit at all - and so, there were NO additional apps. Would the iPhone constitute a monopoly then? No. So extending its capability, and providing an outlet for that extended capability does not suddenly put it in the monopoly category.
Now, having said that, I agree with the colloquial statement that the App Store is a monopoly - note, colloquial.
NAPA creates a lot of devices tied to their store - doesn't make them a monopoly at all. Ditto all sorts of other manufacturers.
I have a Helio Ocean. Very hard to get apps for without going through Helio - doesn't make them a monopoly.
The iPhone isn't a monopoly because AT&T isn't a monopoly and because the iPhone isn't the only phone you can use with AT&T (speaking strictly for the USA, apologies to my non-American buds).
You want an open phone? Me too. I'm still waiting for this to be all that I need - http://openmoko.com/product.html Wish I had the skills or time to develop the skills to help those cats.
Even with magical accounting, you have just made the business case for using a DVR and time-shifting to remove commercials.
Even if you reduce your 28 hr/wk stat by the righteous commercial-free programming, DVD viewing and so forth.
However, by your math - even by removing ad content, I've lost over a million bucks while watching TV.
As far as I'm concerned - the entire I Claudius, Poirot, Midsommer Murders, Sherlock Holmes, Deep Space Nine, Babylon5, Farscape and (new) Battlestar Galactica series were well worth it.
I think you're misinformed to a small extent. My brother-in-law (just left town before I ask questions) showed me his Kindle 1 - while he was browsing Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/ - he was downloading a book from there and transferring to his Kindle via a USB-miniUSB cable, with the Kindle simply mounted as a USB drive.
He claims that it works great. I asked him if it was PDF, and he said it wasn't that, he wasn't sure what it was - it just worked.
All in all, it's beginning to sound to me like the Kindle has a lot more capability than people are giving it credit for, and it's picking up more FUD than OS X.
FWIW, I don't take this as a troll, but anecdotal. If you've held the same position twice, then you're not in a strong position to speak outside of that experience.
Although I'm not citing "privately-owned" businesses, and I'm not sure how many of those there are that are multi-billion dollar concerns, I am suggesting that there are those with more than 10+ years experience making the Linux over Windows call - and leaving it as a exercise to uncover more.
As for number of attack vectors being wider for FOSS than Windows - please, try beer, it's better than the Kool-Aide - really.
Or who outboarded other processors on Apples ][+ before the things you mention hit the market....
BTW - I think if you challenge n00b status hard enough using simple temporal references, you're liable to get an answer from Babbage himself - this is/.
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The McHippies of today don't want to call it what it is, because it sounds less noble and more venal - and style is more important than substance.
Right on.
I don't see how this is anything but pure civil disobedience.
Google is not a civil authority - it is exactly not civil disobedience.
Wow.
OK.
Just to be clear - the only indignation I expressed was at the use of the term civil disobedience. And if I'm not mistaken, that indignation was AGAINST Adbusters, not Google.
I did say that I found their efforts laudable - (def'n - deserving praise or commendation) - and if you're interested, it was because a group found a bad thing (in their opinion) happening commercially, and have a plan to thwart it, using Google's (perceived) own evil against them. You'll note that my post is successive to an earlier one suggesting that Google's behavior may be actionable in court - hence, my cursory acceptance that the claim is true, i.e., Google is being evil, and evil is punishable.
I even made fun of myself in the first paragraph by noting that I usually endorse google in my use of everyday language.
I think you are either having a very bad day or have an under-constrained definition of the word prick.
Your idea that I have a problem with success, successful people, or successful companies, is actually and entirely your own problem.
I wish you a better day.
I you want to learn a lot about civil disobedience, web search "civil disobedience carl cohen howard zinn" - and I note that for once I didn't say to google it.
I studied under Carl Cohen - and highly recommend reading everything by him and Zinn if you want clear thinking on this topic.
The act of overloading Google with this plan is something that I personally find quite laudable - but it is not civil disobedience. As an ancient hippie, I don't mind saying that this act is simply called, Sticking It To The Man . I'm saddened that today's Man-Stickers are so inundated with political correctness that they can't call an action for what it is.
As Carl might have said - they emasculate their argument by so doing.
FWIW, it's not the summary - the stupidity of calling it civil disobedience comes right from TFA.
But for money, they dropped the p from platinum.
Not so fast, compadre - according to TFA, some guys from Chunghwa were sentenced to jail time and indictments have been handed down to LG execs.
Lousy summary - Hitachi didn't price fix by themselves, they had (above named) partners.
It is beginning to look like fines are only part of the picture here.
(On suppressing nuclear research...)
Such as?
Come on, man. You need to start backing these claims.
Please - allow me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Siegel
Game. Set. Match.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who's hoping for a Patrick Stewart casting. DS9 or Voyager Movies? Eck. A new TV Series with Picard.. and Data!? Amazing!
And I'm sure I'm not the only one retching at the idea of any more Patrick Steward/Picard.
For the younger among us who may have missed it (this was early spam), I present the top 100 reasons why Kirk is better than Picard:
: 100. Kirk is a leader, not a follower.
: 99. Kirk never really got into that kinky "Jumpsuit" look.
: 98. Kirk has sex more than once a season.
: 97. One Word: Hair.
: 96. Another Word: Pretty-good-looking-can't-see-the weave-WIG.
: 95. Kirk can beat up a Klingon bare-handed.
: 94. Picard is a French man with an English accent.
: 93. Kirk would date Beverly Crusher -- and damn the consequences!!
: 92. Kirk never drinks tea. Ever.
: 91. Diplomacy for Kirk is a phaser and a smirk.
: 90. Kirk would personally throw Wesley off his bridge.
: 89. Two words: Shoulder Roll.
: 88. Kirk doesn't wear dresses when admirals arrive for lunch.
: 87. Kirk once said: "I've got a belly-ache -- and it's a beauty."
: 86. Kirk would never sing to children in a crisis.
: 85. Kirk can almost drive a stick shift.
: 84. Kirk, almost single-handedly, re-populated the Earth's whale population.
: 83. Kirk says "Prime Directive? What Prime Directive?"
: 82. Kirk knows 20th Century curses.
: 81. Kirk was NEVER infiltrated by the Borg and used against the Federation.
: 80. Kirk ate little coloured cubes and still remained relatively healthy.
: 79. Kirk made do with obviously low performance technology.
: 78. Kirk never pretends to be a barber in order to gain a tactical advantage.
: 77. Kirk wasn't shy about taken his shirt off -- even around those pesky Yeomans.
: 76. Kirk would never waste a holodeck on something stupid like Dixon Hill.
: 75. Kirk never once stood up and had to straighten his shirt.
: 74. One Word: Velour.
: 73. Kirk can beat a Vulcan at Chess.
: 72. When Kirk was Picard's age, he retired from Admiral and took to climbing rocks.
: 71. When Picard was 37, he was only Captain of the lowly freighter Stargazer. When Kirk was 37, he was Captain of the flagship Enterprise.
: 70. Kirk liked a good belt of liquor every now and again.
: 69. One Word: Iman.
: 68. Kirk looks good with a ripped shirt.
: 67. If Kirk ever met a Ferengi, he would rip off its head and shit down its neck.
: 66. Kirk says, "Shoot first and wait for retaliation."
: 65. Kirk's first officer NEVER tells him to stay on the bridge.
: 64. Kirk never leaves the room to bawl somebody out.
: 63. Kirk doesn't rely on the wisdom of some dumb old janitor to get him out of intergalactic scrapes.
: 62. Two Words: Funky Sideburns.
: 61. Kirk never asks his bartender for advice.
: 60. Kirk never once said "Abandon ship! All hands abandon ship!"
: 59. Kirk is not politically correct.
: 58. Kirk never got "dumped" by a woman for an intergalactic busy body named after a letter of the alphabet.
: 57. Kirk never wore green tights and frolicked about in Sherwood Forest.
: 56. If there was ever a Klingon on Kirk's bridge, Kirk would likely be dead.
: 55. Ever hear of a bar shooter called "Make it so?" No? How about a "Beam me up Scotty" then? See the difference?
: 54. One Word: Miniskirts.
: 53. Kirk's girlfriends always look good in soft light.
: 52. Kirk never went anywhere without a whole bunch of guys in red shirts.
: 51. Kirk's first officer didn't play some wimpy instrument like the trombone.
: 50. Kirk had more dates than his first officer.
: 49. The extent of Kirk's knowledge of Klingon vocabulary can be roughly translated as " GO F*CK YOURSELF."
: 48. If something doesn't speak English -- it's toast.
: 47. Kirk wasn't some prissy archaeology fan.
: 46. Picard's middle name isn't tough or awe-inspiring like Tiberius is.
: 45. If Kirk finds a strange spinning probe, he blows it up.
: 44. Picard neve
... since it would be relatively low-tech, it would probably be cheaper too.
Your idea is a shining example of common sense and fiscal restraint. Congratulations.
Uh - you know that those attributes are likely to ensure that NASA will never go along with it, right?
Here's an interesting illustration of your excellent point - http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/02/sir_humphrey_teaches.html
One of my compadres uses the Modbook and really, really likes it. Seemed pretty worthwhile to me.
I laughed to tears - many, many thanks for the link!
Compadre, I must say that you have balls the size of Manhattan to have that user name and to be posting from any foreign country.
Namaste and cheers!
(And thanks for the info.)
It's still easier to use BitTorrent.
I have no clue, access to BitTorrent, behind the Great Firewall of China. But from what I've read (horror stories) about net activities being traced and questioned, I'd use an illegal Apple Store access rather than BitTorrent.
"Yes, Comrade Prosecutor - tell me what I did wrong ripping off the imperialists," sounds like a better defense than, "I promise I wasn't looking at porn."
Never reward Behavior A and hope for Behavior B.
And we'd have never gotten the Chinatown that we did!
I'd argue that's a colloquial use of the term monopoly rather than an economic one - from (yeah, I know - sorry) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition for the good or service that they provide and a lack of viable substitute goods.
As you're aware of this, I assert - by completely making this fact up - that there are no areas served exclusively by AT&T, hence, viable substitutes exist.
I live in the Southwest - welcome to my world.
http://www.imakenews.com/cppa/e_article001293894.cfm?x=b11,0,w
http://www.uswaternews.com/archives/arcrights/arcrights.html
Lewis Black said it best - we took something as simple as water and have managed to completely fuck it up.
How does creating a device tied to your store not meet the definition of an unfair monopoly?
Well - because it's not a monopoly at all. To clarify, suppose Apple NEVER released a development kit at all - and so, there were NO additional apps. Would the iPhone constitute a monopoly then? No. So extending its capability, and providing an outlet for that extended capability does not suddenly put it in the monopoly category.
Now, having said that, I agree with the colloquial statement that the App Store is a monopoly - note, colloquial.
NAPA creates a lot of devices tied to their store - doesn't make them a monopoly at all. Ditto all sorts of other manufacturers.
I have a Helio Ocean. Very hard to get apps for without going through Helio - doesn't make them a monopoly.
The iPhone isn't a monopoly because AT&T isn't a monopoly and because the iPhone isn't the only phone you can use with AT&T (speaking strictly for the USA, apologies to my non-American buds).
You want an open phone? Me too. I'm still waiting for this to be all that I need - http://openmoko.com/product.html Wish I had the skills or time to develop the skills to help those cats.
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/iphone_app_usage_drops_off
Yeah, I stopped using the 'Dial Phone Numbers and Talk' application like two days after getting it.
Even with magical accounting, you have just made the business case for using a DVR and time-shifting to remove commercials.
Even if you reduce your 28 hr/wk stat by the righteous commercial-free programming, DVD viewing and so forth.
However, by your math - even by removing ad content, I've lost over a million bucks while watching TV.
As far as I'm concerned - the entire I Claudius, Poirot, Midsommer Murders, Sherlock Holmes, Deep Space Nine, Babylon5, Farscape and (new) Battlestar Galactica series were well worth it.
Money isn't everything.
I cannot resist re-cycling this old post - http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=247371&cid=19802171
Only 3 episodes left.
I think you're misinformed to a small extent. My brother-in-law (just left town before I ask questions) showed me his Kindle 1 - while he was browsing Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/ - he was downloading a book from there and transferring to his Kindle via a USB-miniUSB cable, with the Kindle simply mounted as a USB drive.
He claims that it works great. I asked him if it was PDF, and he said it wasn't that, he wasn't sure what it was - it just worked.
I suspect that it's PRC format - see http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:File_Formats_FAQ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle
Further, here's something on converting PDF to PRC - http://www.cottontimer.com/2008/05/06/how-to-convert-pdf-files-to-read-on-the-amazon-kindle/
All in all, it's beginning to sound to me like the Kindle has a lot more capability than people are giving it credit for, and it's picking up more FUD than OS X.
FWIW, I don't take this as a troll, but anecdotal. If you've held the same position twice, then you're not in a strong position to speak outside of that experience.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2244391
http://www.cio.com.au/article/68397/munich_government_chooses_linux_over_microsoft
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7008
http://linuxscorecard.blogspot.com/2007/09/this-blog-will-spring-back-to-life.html
Although I'm not citing "privately-owned" businesses, and I'm not sure how many of those there are that are multi-billion dollar concerns, I am suggesting that there are those with more than 10+ years experience making the Linux over Windows call - and leaving it as a exercise to uncover more.
As for number of attack vectors being wider for FOSS than Windows - please, try beer, it's better than the Kool-Aide - really.
Who thinks the AC is still a n00b?
Basically, all of us that predate those efforts by well over a decade, I suppose....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_multiprocessing
Or who outboarded other processors on Apples ][+ before the things you mention hit the market....
BTW - I think if you challenge n00b status hard enough using simple temporal references, you're liable to get an answer from Babbage himself - this is /.