So I should tell my kids' school to get rid of all the Macs and replace them with "KIM-1"s so they can get a proper education on computers?
Macs are actually perfect educational tools. They ship with already a wide variety of FSF tools pre-installed and come with many other open source tools. With a Mac, you can learn everything there is to learn from simple office work, to deep Unix systems administration, to creative design. So no, you shouldn't tell your school to replace Macs with KIM-1s. You should encourage them however to teach about the concepts of computing instead of specific versions of a specific tool.
It's important to note that the Appeals court hasn't said that the copyrights do belong to SCO. They've only found that a decision regarding copyright ownership based on the APA wasn't something that should have been decided in a summary judgment and that the decision should've been made during the jury trial.
There are 2 APIs floating around in the SDK right now. Android 1.1 and Android 1.5. This is no different than the iPhone, where the APIs and frameworks are getting introduced and updated every release. If you use 3.0 features in iPhone's SDK, you're stuck as a 3.0 app. Same with Android. A 1.1 app will run on a 1.5 phone, but not the opposite.
I don't see where that is a problem since all software development as been like this for ages.
Actually, I'm on 2.5 years of a 3 year contract. I'd need to argue to get one for 79$ too and probably threaten to unsubscribe and just pay what remains of my contract.
Nope, wrong again, GV Mobile doesn't hide any of the original features. It doesn't hide the original phone app. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is supplanted. GV Mobile adds features completely separately.
and yet you don't even know how to use the HTML (quote) (/quote) modifiers properly.;-)
And there's irony in flaming someone on how he doesn't even know how to use HTML properly, when you yourself don't. Next time, use entities to escape the tags and display them properly instead of using parantheses : <quote> = <quote>.
It doesn't supplant anything. Your original voice mail is still usuable and tied to your original number, which is also still usuable along with your original contacts. It offers phone consolidation of these features however if you want. All this is based on what you want to do and you can opt-in (notice not opt-out) of any of these features.
Not only that, but ADSL became a standard in 1998 and that's about when it started being rolled out. This guy is on some serious medication, we're now down to 11 years.
Except these updates are daily, not every second. So Palm knows where you are once per day. And it's not clear that they have any identification information that they can use to link a certain report to a certain user. Unless your carrier informs Palm of which user bought which Palm Pre, in which case, we have a whole other privacy issue on our hands.
Sun bought StarDivision in 1999. XML version 1.0 was put forth as a standard in 1998. That's a pretty short time to migrate your entire application set to XML as a file format. ODF is the first format used by StarOffice that is XML based and it didn't come into play until sometime in 2003 or 2004. So no, stop trying to be right when you're wrong.
Finland has almost full coverage of its territory. The map was posted earlier and aside from a few areas in the northern most part, every inch of the country has coverage. The US, not so much, making his numbers even worse as far as explaining why US citizens pay 5x the rates.
Except you don't buy a PC to run Windows or to run OS X (well, aside from geeks with a OS fetish to maintain). You buy a PC to surf the web, read e-mail, store pictures, listen to music, etc... Both PCs and Macs can do this without a problem, OS notwithstanding. Now, the consumer when buying a machine will look at Apple computers the same way he looks at HP or Dell or Asus, as a machine enabling him to do the things he wants to do. He'll weight the pros and cons, and compare on a price basis vs his needs. Apple are indeed competing with Dell and HP, they just have some different pros and cons than just sheer price.
And again, saying Apple has a monopoly is like saying McDonald's has a monopoly on Bigmacs. If you really want a BigMac, you have to go to McD's. That's a product, not a market, and as such, it's not a monopoly situation. McDonald's doesn't have control on the fast food market, there is healthy competition. Same with Apple, they don't control the PC market at all, they have a niche product that is different enough that some retards thinks it's a whole other market, but at the end of the day, it's used in exactly the same way that the competition's product is.
You sir, have no idea what a Theory is. In the scientific world, a theory is very well grounded and not "still up in the air". Take for example... oh let's see... the Theory of Gravity. Are you saying gravity is still up in the air and always will be ? No, a theory is a hypothesis that has been through many experiments which have yielded verifiable evidence that it works how we think it works. That is a theory in the end, something verifiable, reproduceable and explainable.
It's not because Slashdot submitters don't even read the articles they are submitting that we need to repeat erroneous information over and over again. Apple doesn't have 91% MARKET share of the 1000$+ PCs, it has 91% REVENU share. That just means they sell more expensive stuff than everyone else, not more volume. Dell can still outsell them 10 to 1.
Your point is still wrong. Functions don't define a market. Sure people don't have a choice if they want a Apple computer and Dell just produces some beige clones in a clown suit. But that doesn't mean crap. What you can do on MacOS X, you can do on Windows too, and as such, that doesn't give Apple any kind of controlling interest in the market, only control over their own product.
And this argument is basically semantics. The guy wrongly used the word monopoly. It doesn't mean what he thinks it means and as such, his message was completely distorted.
The case is Microsoft holds 90% of the entire PC market. Apple holds 10%. Hence why Microsoft is a Monopoly, and Apple isn't on the OS side. Apple also competes in the hardware business with Dell, HP and other OEMs. They don't have even near a controlling interest.
As for your other comment, the MacOS market, MacOS isn't a market, it's a product. PCs are the market and Apple doesn't even come close to having a monopoly on it. You'd have to be retarded to think otherwise.
That's just a knee-jerk and it's not what the article is saying at all. It's saying that you can use the device you bought as you see fit, just that Apple won't want to pay for your mistakes when you decide your MacBook Pro made for an appropriate flotation device in your pool.
Also, I don't see anything about remote monitoring, so this in essence would be a blackbox type system where if you take it in for repair, they will be able to access the logs. If you want no one to know that you spoon your Mac Pro at night, leaving biological traces all over the PCI-X bus, just don't take it in for repair.
BZZZT. Thanks for playing. Most parts for the Honda Accord are manufactured in Ohio from 3rd parties. Not just imported and assembled, actually designed and built here. The Accord for a while was even exported back from the states to Japan.
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So I should tell my kids' school to get rid of all the Macs and replace them with "KIM-1"s so they can get a proper education on computers?
Macs are actually perfect educational tools. They ship with already a wide variety of FSF tools pre-installed and come with many other open source tools. With a Mac, you can learn everything there is to learn from simple office work, to deep Unix systems administration, to creative design. So no, you shouldn't tell your school to replace Macs with KIM-1s. You should encourage them however to teach about the concepts of computing instead of specific versions of a specific tool.
Yes, and you have a new foe
Does anyone really care about the foe/freaks system ?
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090824142203182
It's important to note that the Appeals court hasn't said that the copyrights do belong to SCO. They've only found that a decision regarding copyright ownership based on the APA wasn't something that should have been decided in a summary judgment and that the decision should've been made during the jury trial.
There are 2 APIs floating around in the SDK right now. Android 1.1 and Android 1.5. This is no different than the iPhone, where the APIs and frameworks are getting introduced and updated every release. If you use 3.0 features in iPhone's SDK, you're stuck as a 3.0 app. Same with Android. A 1.1 app will run on a 1.5 phone, but not the opposite.
I don't see where that is a problem since all software development as been like this for ages.
Actually, I'm on 2.5 years of a 3 year contract. I'd need to argue to get one for 79$ too and probably threaten to unsubscribe and just pay what remains of my contract.
The standard Android UI is rough. However, Google does allow 3rd parties to make their own UI on top of Android, which gives you things like SE's Rachael (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UwcVlF5EUM) or HTC's Sense UI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LtKAnJf1Ss)
600$ ? No, you can get them for 79$ subsidized on a 3 year contract.
Samsung already has. The Samsung Galaxy. It is already available on O2 in Germany from what I can gather.
Nope, wrong again, GV Mobile doesn't hide any of the original features. It doesn't hide the original phone app. Nothing is hidden. Nothing is supplanted. GV Mobile adds features completely separately.
4 parentheses isn't a typo, it's you not knowing about entities, hence a big part of HTML.
and yet you don't even know how to use the HTML (quote) (/quote) modifiers properly. ;-)
And there's irony in flaming someone on how he doesn't even know how to use HTML properly, when you yourself don't. Next time, use entities to escape the tags and display them properly instead of using parantheses : <quote> = <quote>.
It doesn't supplant anything. Your original voice mail is still usuable and tied to your original number, which is also still usuable along with your original contacts. It offers phone consolidation of these features however if you want. All this is based on what you want to do and you can opt-in (notice not opt-out) of any of these features.
Not only that, but ADSL became a standard in 1998 and that's about when it started being rolled out. This guy is on some serious medication, we're now down to 11 years.
Wait what ? Parents are stumped by that question ? How did they become parents in the first place ?
Except these updates are daily, not every second. So Palm knows where you are once per day. And it's not clear that they have any identification information that they can use to link a certain report to a certain user. Unless your carrier informs Palm of which user bought which Palm Pre, in which case, we have a whole other privacy issue on our hands.
Sun bought StarDivision in 1999. XML version 1.0 was put forth as a standard in 1998. That's a pretty short time to migrate your entire application set to XML as a file format. ODF is the first format used by StarOffice that is XML based and it didn't come into play until sometime in 2003 or 2004. So no, stop trying to be right when you're wrong.
Finland has almost full coverage of its territory. The map was posted earlier and aside from a few areas in the northern most part, every inch of the country has coverage. The US, not so much, making his numbers even worse as far as explaining why US citizens pay 5x the rates.
Except you don't buy a PC to run Windows or to run OS X (well, aside from geeks with a OS fetish to maintain). You buy a PC to surf the web, read e-mail, store pictures, listen to music, etc... Both PCs and Macs can do this without a problem, OS notwithstanding. Now, the consumer when buying a machine will look at Apple computers the same way he looks at HP or Dell or Asus, as a machine enabling him to do the things he wants to do. He'll weight the pros and cons, and compare on a price basis vs his needs. Apple are indeed competing with Dell and HP, they just have some different pros and cons than just sheer price.
And again, saying Apple has a monopoly is like saying McDonald's has a monopoly on Bigmacs. If you really want a BigMac, you have to go to McD's. That's a product, not a market, and as such, it's not a monopoly situation. McDonald's doesn't have control on the fast food market, there is healthy competition. Same with Apple, they don't control the PC market at all, they have a niche product that is different enough that some retards thinks it's a whole other market, but at the end of the day, it's used in exactly the same way that the competition's product is.
You sir, have no idea what a Theory is. In the scientific world, a theory is very well grounded and not "still up in the air". Take for example... oh let's see... the Theory of Gravity. Are you saying gravity is still up in the air and always will be ? No, a theory is a hypothesis that has been through many experiments which have yielded verifiable evidence that it works how we think it works. That is a theory in the end, something verifiable, reproduceable and explainable.
It's not because Slashdot submitters don't even read the articles they are submitting that we need to repeat erroneous information over and over again. Apple doesn't have 91% MARKET share of the 1000$+ PCs, it has 91% REVENU share. That just means they sell more expensive stuff than everyone else, not more volume. Dell can still outsell them 10 to 1.
Yes it does. Parental controls are able to completely disable Safari access.
Your point is still wrong. Functions don't define a market. Sure people don't have a choice if they want a Apple computer and Dell just produces some beige clones in a clown suit. But that doesn't mean crap. What you can do on MacOS X, you can do on Windows too, and as such, that doesn't give Apple any kind of controlling interest in the market, only control over their own product. And this argument is basically semantics. The guy wrongly used the word monopoly. It doesn't mean what he thinks it means and as such, his message was completely distorted.
The case is Microsoft holds 90% of the entire PC market. Apple holds 10%. Hence why Microsoft is a Monopoly, and Apple isn't on the OS side. Apple also competes in the hardware business with Dell, HP and other OEMs. They don't have even near a controlling interest.
As for your other comment, the MacOS market, MacOS isn't a market, it's a product. PCs are the market and Apple doesn't even come close to having a monopoly on it. You'd have to be retarded to think otherwise.
That's just a knee-jerk and it's not what the article is saying at all. It's saying that you can use the device you bought as you see fit, just that Apple won't want to pay for your mistakes when you decide your MacBook Pro made for an appropriate flotation device in your pool. Also, I don't see anything about remote monitoring, so this in essence would be a blackbox type system where if you take it in for repair, they will be able to access the logs. If you want no one to know that you spoon your Mac Pro at night, leaving biological traces all over the PCI-X bus, just don't take it in for repair.
BZZZT. Thanks for playing. Most parts for the Honda Accord are manufactured in Ohio from 3rd parties. Not just imported and assembled, actually designed and built here. The Accord for a while was even exported back from the states to Japan.