As I understood it, it depends on circumstances: For instance, if you are granted Norwegian citizenship, you must give up your old one (with few exceptions). However, the U.S. considers this to be forced, and do not recognise it. So a Yank granted Norwegian citizenship will be Norwegian (only) in Norway, but considered U.S. across the pond.
Um, these are digital downloads: it's not like they printed 1,000 copies and then someone stole 900 of them or something.
The only difference between a pirate and a subsistence farmer in Kenya - neither of which is your customer - is if the latter leeches off any resources like in the case of online gaming.
Does that mean you can make a copy in a state where the copyright has expired, then sell it to someone in another state where it is under copyright, since selling a legal copy is not in violation of copyright?
Yeah, because it is so hard to google how to do that. (Export as 30 sec. AAC from iTunes, rename extension to.m4r, import back into iTunes, sync iPhone, in case you wonder.)
Get real: Android has four different versions (with varying speeds between manufacturers and operators when it comes to updating), with lots of manufacturer customizations (Sense UI, MotoBlur, TimeScape etc.) You can easily count one "Android OS" per manufacturer.
(Apparently Google failed to wring the hands of operators the way Apple did).
How many of those Android sales were G1, Hero etc. owners deciding Froyo would never come to their phones and trading up?
- 3G was added when there was a proper market for it - Java on phones is a shitty subset of what you get on the desktop, with vendor-specific extensions added as band-aids to actually make it useful. - Flash is for Adobe fanbois, mostly used for ads, broken website navigation and other battery-eating stuff, with an inconvenient workaround for the lack of haver on non-mouse-pointer interfaces. Better off without it, except for the army of Flash programmers who might need to learn something new. - Video recording - not that common in phones anyway before iPhone got it too - MMS - poor man's email, complaining that a fully-featured email phone lacked MMS is like complaining that a modern computer lacks a Centronics printer port. - copy/paste - was added to iOS when they found a proper way of doing it. You see, it is not about doing things first. - multitasking? In what sense? Having random apps running stuff in the background, thus necessitating a mechanism to kill off the renegades when your average user cannot fathom why their game crashes almost immediately because there is too little RAM available? The iOS approach of supporting a useful set of background services (music, VoIP etc.) is better for the end user.
Windows is a boon to the thousands offering support assistance for the unfriendly mess.
Running an interpreter (PHP licensed) that reads and "compiles" source files without modifying them is very different from linking.
The only COPYING taking place is by the user downloading the script source and putting it into their folder. Any other scripts read by the interpreter as a consequence are not modified by the person executing the interpreter.
Or are you saying that when Emacs was ported to Windows, it became licensed under the Windows license? Or that a GPL-licensed Java program that calls Apache Commons HTTP-client becomes dual-licensed as it "absorbs" the license for that library? Can't you see how spurious the claim of "license virality" is?
But it does not modify WordPress source, unless the theme source is based on existing WordPress theme source. Calling functions: Not source modification. Changing runtime state: Not source modification.
But if the "premium" theme is a modification of any WordPress source, that's a slightly different cattle of fish; but not by much. The author can charge whatever they want for the derived product (and as a PHP script the source is inherently distributed with the "binary"), but cannot prevent the buyer from freely distributing to anyone else.
So in summary: The developer should just make the $1 app because leeches like you would get the ad-supported $0 version and then not uphold your end of the implied bargain by showing the ads.
Still a fucking cheapskate. Go make your own "write apps and don't get asny money!" platform and see how successful you are. You are NOT entitled to any apps. If you cannot play by the rules, get out of the game.
I guess app developers then would want a way to detect a jailbroken device and in that case just show a single panel with "Fuck off, freeloader!" on it.
when was the last time a Vietnamese film reached global distribution let alone worldwide success?
Based on the list on IMDb, the top entry I can remember having read a fair bit about is The Scent of Green Papaya, which would be 1993. It seems though that most Asian cinema is more action-oriented, and such more contemplative pieces a relative rarity.
It's NOT theft of service, it is unlicensed copying, i.e. violation of a State-granted trade monopoly. They are not using a service without paying, they are replicating an artistic work without a license to do so.
Unless you can point to even a SINGLE court case where the *AA have claimed that copyright violations have anything to do with theft. Their public rhetoric does not count.
Since the C# architect was "shanghaied" from Borland, the language is more like Object Pascal/Delphi in C family clothes. True, Java is probably the reason it was created (though Microsoft did toy with VM stuff like p-code before) but it is sufficiently different to ignore direct comparisons.
See here for a history, where IE addons had tabs at least 3 years prior.
Here where? You forgot a link methinks.
A quick search reveals tabs were (natively) added to IE in IE 7, released long after that date. You could add it to IE 6 through the MSN Toolbar in 2005 (still after Opera) but you needed to use extensions to context menus. I cannot find any plugins prior to this that had it.
Maybe if you had been able to add links to Slashdot posts... ah but I can dream.
the other browsers simply display pages correctly.
By what standard? Opera supports more CSS than most of them, and IE has a documented quirks mode of its own.
Cept they didn't instigate it
You are believing myths. The EU Commision instigated it, not Opera.
Dragnfly is vastly inferior to Firebug
No it is only different, and apparently that means "inferior" to you. I guess that is the basis of most of your attacks against Opera, thst it does things different and you do not like that.
The fact that Opera says they included tabbed browsing, does not make it so.
You are living in a fantasy world where absolutely nothing true about Opera can penetrate your thick skull. Live in ignorance and hate if you must.
1. No, Opera like most other browsers have "quirks mode" to deal with non-standard code, in particular when identifying as other browsers.
2. No, it's not better in Firefox. Only a Opera-bashing Firefox zealot would think so. It is implemented differently but that is not the same as "bad". "Decent firebug equivalent" is spoken by someone who have never ever even bothered firing up Dragonfly. FF is "customizable" if you install a bunch of extensions that slow down startup because it looks for updates, but the extensions break on the next update anyway...
3. Since Mozilla and Google had the same status as Opera in that case I guess they are "tattling" as well?
4. Are you reading what you are writing? In your second point you complained about an imagined lack of features and now it has too many? And I loved having Opera Turbo last weekend when my broadband went dead and I had to resort to 3G tethering. See, not everyone use their computer near high-speed wireless all the time.
5. Goes against the observation of a number of people.
Opera added tabbed browsing in 4.00 (June 2000), prior to that it used MDI (and was ridiculed for it by Mozilla fanboys who preferred the X11-oriented multi-window paradigm.) I and many others use mouse gestures all the time.
The Netscape web server was sold to Sun which apparently did make some decent money off it. iPlanet -> Sun One -> Glassfish 2.x, but Glassfish 3 is a complete rewrite (into Java without the native baggage of old) as I understand it.
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As I understood it, it depends on circumstances: For instance, if you are granted Norwegian citizenship, you must give up your old one (with few exceptions). However, the U.S. considers this to be forced, and do not recognise it. So a Yank granted Norwegian citizenship will be Norwegian (only) in Norway, but considered U.S. across the pond.
Oh they do play by the rules.
You just occasionally need to drag them into a courtroom to tell them what they are.
Um, these are digital downloads: it's not like they printed 1,000 copies and then someone stole 900 of them or something.
The only difference between a pirate and a subsistence farmer in Kenya - neither of which is your customer - is if the latter leeches off any resources like in the case of online gaming.
Does that mean you can make a copy in a state where the copyright has expired, then sell it to someone in another state where it is under copyright, since selling a legal copy is not in violation of copyright?
They could do a Google: Just scan it and put it up and see if anyone bothers to claim copyright...
Remember that the focus probably would have been on the U.S. market, where Nokia almost are "Noki-what?".
Yeah, because it is so hard to google how to do that. (Export as 30 sec. AAC from iTunes, rename extension to .m4r, import back into iTunes, sync iPhone, in case you wonder.)
Get real: Android has four different versions (with varying speeds between manufacturers and operators when it comes to updating), with lots of manufacturer customizations (Sense UI, MotoBlur, TimeScape etc.) You can easily count one "Android OS" per manufacturer.
(Apparently Google failed to wring the hands of operators the way Apple did).
How many of those Android sales were G1, Hero etc. owners deciding Froyo would never come to their phones and trading up?
- 3G was added when there was a proper market for it
- Java on phones is a shitty subset of what you get on the desktop, with vendor-specific extensions added as band-aids to actually make it useful.
- Flash is for Adobe fanbois, mostly used for ads, broken website navigation and other battery-eating stuff, with an inconvenient workaround for the lack of haver on non-mouse-pointer interfaces. Better off without it, except for the army of Flash programmers who might need to learn something new.
- Video recording - not that common in phones anyway before iPhone got it too
- MMS - poor man's email, complaining that a fully-featured email phone lacked MMS is like complaining that a modern computer lacks a Centronics printer port.
- copy/paste - was added to iOS when they found a proper way of doing it. You see, it is not about doing things first.
- multitasking? In what sense? Having random apps running stuff in the background, thus necessitating a mechanism to kill off the renegades when your average user cannot fathom why their game crashes almost immediately because there is too little RAM available? The iOS approach of supporting a useful set of background services (music, VoIP etc.) is better for the end user.
Windows is a boon to the thousands offering support assistance for the unfriendly mess.
Man, if only the FreeBSD guys had listened to you before they ported it to their platform, then they would have seen it was futile to do so...
Running an interpreter (PHP licensed) that reads and "compiles" source files without modifying them is very different from linking.
The only COPYING taking place is by the user downloading the script source and putting it into their folder. Any other scripts read by the interpreter as a consequence are not modified by the person executing the interpreter.
Or are you saying that when Emacs was ported to Windows, it became licensed under the Windows license? Or that a GPL-licensed Java program that calls Apache Commons HTTP-client becomes dual-licensed as it "absorbs" the license for that library? Can't you see how spurious the claim of "license virality" is?
But it does not modify WordPress source, unless the theme source is based on existing WordPress theme source. Calling functions: Not source modification. Changing runtime state: Not source modification.
But if the "premium" theme is a modification of any WordPress source, that's a slightly different cattle of fish; but not by much. The author can charge whatever they want for the derived product (and as a PHP script the source is inherently distributed with the "binary"), but cannot prevent the buyer from freely distributing to anyone else.
So in summary: The developer should just make the $1 app because leeches like you would get the ad-supported $0 version and then not uphold your end of the implied bargain by showing the ads.
Still a fucking cheapskate. Go make your own "write apps and don't get asny money!" platform and see how successful you are. You are NOT entitled to any apps. If you cannot play by the rules, get out of the game.
I guess app developers then would want a way to detect a jailbroken device and in that case just show a single panel with "Fuck off, freeloader!" on it.
Does Android really have the ability of hacking apps to remove the developer's ad revenue? What is the hack called, "I'macheapdick" or something?
Why would you want to distribute the source with the app? There is no real mechanism for extracting it.
Instead you could have a link to where the user can download it from the web.
when was the last time a Vietnamese film reached global distribution let alone worldwide success?
Based on the list on IMDb, the top entry I can remember having read a fair bit about is The Scent of Green Papaya, which would be 1993. It seems though that most Asian cinema is more action-oriented, and such more contemplative pieces a relative rarity.
Do not be fooled by the "industry product" Spears of earlier, but the post-childbirth adult she is now, and give "Circus" a spin.
It's NOT theft of service, it is unlicensed copying, i.e. violation of a State-granted trade monopoly. They are not using a service without paying, they are replicating an artistic work without a license to do so.
Unless you can point to even a SINGLE court case where the *AA have claimed that copyright violations have anything to do with theft. Their public rhetoric does not count.
Since the C# architect was "shanghaied" from Borland, the language is more like Object Pascal/Delphi in C family clothes. True, Java is probably the reason it was created (though Microsoft did toy with VM stuff like p-code before) but it is sufficiently different to ignore direct comparisons.
Now, the CLR versus the JVM, however...
See here for a history, where IE addons had tabs at least 3 years prior.
Here where? You forgot a link methinks.
A quick search reveals tabs were (natively) added to IE in IE 7, released long after that date. You could add it to IE 6 through the MSN Toolbar in 2005 (still after Opera) but you needed to use extensions to context menus. I cannot find any plugins prior to this that had it.
Maybe if you had been able to add links to Slashdot posts... ah but I can dream.
the other browsers simply display pages correctly.
By what standard? Opera supports more CSS than most of them, and IE has a documented quirks mode of its own.
Cept they didn't instigate it
You are believing myths. The EU Commision instigated it, not Opera.
Dragnfly is vastly inferior to Firebug
No it is only different, and apparently that means "inferior" to you. I guess that is the basis of most of your attacks against Opera, thst it does things different and you do not like that.
The fact that Opera says they included tabbed browsing, does not make it so.
You are living in a fantasy world where absolutely nothing true about Opera can penetrate your thick skull. Live in ignorance and hate if you must.
"Wait for the iPhone 4.1"...
1. No, Opera like most other browsers have "quirks mode" to deal with non-standard code, in particular when identifying as other browsers.
2. No, it's not better in Firefox. Only a Opera-bashing Firefox zealot would think so. It is implemented differently but that is not the same as "bad". "Decent firebug equivalent" is spoken by someone who have never ever even bothered firing up Dragonfly. FF is "customizable" if you install a bunch of extensions that slow down startup because it looks for updates, but the extensions break on the next update anyway...
3. Since Mozilla and Google had the same status as Opera in that case I guess they are "tattling" as well?
4. Are you reading what you are writing? In your second point you complained about an imagined lack of features and now it has too many? And I loved having Opera Turbo last weekend when my broadband went dead and I had to resort to 3G tethering. See, not everyone use their computer near high-speed wireless all the time.
5. Goes against the observation of a number of people.
Opera added tabbed browsing in 4.00 (June 2000), prior to that it used MDI (and was ridiculed for it by Mozilla fanboys who preferred the X11-oriented multi-window paradigm.) I and many others use mouse gestures all the time.
I guess you need a history lesson
The Netscape web server was sold to Sun which apparently did make some decent money off it. iPlanet -> Sun One -> Glassfish 2.x, but Glassfish 3 is a complete rewrite (into Java without the native baggage of old) as I understand it.