This was announced IN JAPAN, OK? Did you know that a type of cellphone service (the i-Mode) in Japan has more than 200,000 new applicants PER DAY? That Ken Kutaragi has previously said that the cellphone is Sony's biggest competitor?
Sony is doing this to get a chunk of the rapidly-growing cellphone-based comms market in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even release it overseas.
Basically, Fuji probably doesn't care about the rest of the world because it doesn't have to care about the rest of the world. As for the "why are they sending these out" bit, like I said in my other post, it could just be a knee-jerk reflex by the law firm.
Hate to reply to myself, but after looking at the cease-and-desist order, I noticed it's from Morrison and Foerster. They act as the "overseas" law firm for many large Japanese companies. It's possible that they've been told to watch out for copyright infringement of Fuji IP overseas, and are just sending out these letters without really consulting with the head office, if you know what I mean. In any case, it's doubtful whether Fuji has any real idea of the extent of the support for the Iron Chef series on the Internet.
The thing to remember here is that Fuji Television almost certainly *doesn't care* about the popularity of the Iron Chef series overseas. It's pretty much a dead horse here in Japan, and no matter what anyone might say Fuji makes enough money on the Japanese side of things to render any secondary income from redistribution overseas pretty much irrelevant.
I haven't the faintest idea what you're trying to say - did you actually read my post? Did you read the original post that it was a reply to? Did you understand that I was explaining the usage of the comma and period in European numerical notation?
What in God's name were you reading? Cause I sure can't figure out how you managed to make that reply to my post.
No, he's exactly right. The GPL allows you to use the software any way you like - hack it up, throw it away, turn it into a poem, whatever. However, by making a closed source program out of it, you are thereby restricting the rights of others to use it in the way that you were allowed to.
Yet another of your standard techniques. When you see that you have nothing more to gain, and something to lose, by continuing a conversation, you cut your losses and run.
You still haven't answered my original question: WHY DID YOU USE YOUR +1 BONUS FOR THAT POST?
(BTW, at least you've got one thing right; I do feel contempt for you, along with a healthy dose of pity at the sorry life you must lead.)
Malda mentioned it when he originally announced the moderation system; the use of the +1 bonus should only be used for posts that other readers would appreciate, rather than your own personal gain (which in this case definitely applies, considering that Sig11 made his +1 post at a time when there were NO other posts in this story above one, thereby putting him at the top for those browsing with "highest moderation first" on. This would suggest that Sig11 considered his post to be more worthy than any of the ON-TOPIC posts that were sitting at 1.)
Yet another self-serving post made up to look like you're a reasonable person. Your karma isn't a reflection of any particular "worth" inherent in your posts; it just indicates that your campaign to fool the/. moderators has been inordinately successful. And as for your bit about the moderation system - of course you want people to use the moderation system; that's how you raise your karma, isn;t it? So how do you justify the bitchslap, then - because that sure looks to me like the moderation system isn;t working properly (at least in your case.)
The mod system was designed to handle posts by either sincere people posting on-topic posts, or those taking advantage of/.'s open policy to post unsuitable content (I'm ignoring funny posts here for the time being). It was not designed to handle a person that does whatever he can to get moderated upwards (including posting things that seem to be on-topic, acting injured when accused of trolling, cutting and pasting other people's posts, etc. etc. etc.)
Don't dodge the issue. You had no justification for posting with the +1 bonus, yet you did so. I called you on it; why did you make no reference whatsoever to this in your reply?
You've managed to tie people up in enough knots that some even take your side, but I have yet to see a single (on-topic) post of yours that could be considered to be a valid opinion, as opposed to one that you made up on the spot to get moderated upwards. (The reason why I specify "on-topic" is that I've seen more than enough of your off-topic posts.) I don't expect you to change; that's probably just the way you are - a shallow person that longs for some form of recognition. That's fine - but DON'T spray your drivel in places where others have to see it.
As I understand it, the GPL states that it must be attached, unaltered, to derivative works. I assume that the QTclause GPL would also have to be attached to derivative works.
Well, they wouldn't be altering the GPL. You could consider it an "extra license" for the KDE stuff. The problem is that a lot of the KDE code (especially utilities) is actually based on original GPL code not written by the KDE team, which means that they would, in effect, changing the licence of code that is not copyright to members of the KDE team. As far as I can see, there would be no problem with the attachment of this qualification to code that was written solely by the KDE group (as long as all members involved in a particular piece of code agreed to the addition.)
The guy who wrote the letter is German (presumably). Germany is a European country. Much of Europe uses the period instead of a comma for separating groups of numbers.
Although the Debian maintainers will be far clearer on the issues involved, as far as I'm aware the Debian team's objection to KDE is that the Qt licence and the GPL are not compatible when a GPL'd program is linked with the Qt library. That means they wouldn't be able to include it in non-free (despite what CmdrTaco says), simply because the act of compiling KDE and distributing the resulting binaries, in and of itself, would be a breach of the GPL.
In other words, if the Debian team were to distribute KDE, they'd have to do it in source form - not the likeliest of possibilities.
It sure is easy to insult other people's viewpoints when you're not putting your name to what you say, isn't it? He's got a valid point. What's your argument? "We'd lose money." Great.
principality-sealand.net is owned by the German company that was responsible for the short-lived invasion of Sealand (and also, as it happens, the kidnapping of the Prince of Sealand's son). Don't trust them; their business until now has mainly consisted of flogging fake Sealand passports to desparate Hong Kong families before the return of HK to China.
Who moderated this drivel up? A few facts for your edification:
1) Trademarks are valid only within certain well-defined areas - in other words, to conflict, the use of a trademark has to refer to something in the same or similar line of business.
2) The guy in this case is using it non-commercially. That exempts him from any claims upon his use of that trademark. In other words, if I'm not making any money out of it, I can call my webpage "Microsoft" or "IBM" or "Apple" and nobody can touch me.
3) Who says that the Barbie dolls on the market at the moment weren't made in Mexico? (Actually, they probably weren't - they're almost certainly made in China.)
#1: I didn't mention Damascus steel anywhere in my post. I was talking about the process used for making Japanese swords.
#2: That bit about sticking slaves with red-hot swords is crap. What you're thinking of is the tameshigiri, where they used to try out the completed blade on criminals. I've seen an old illustration that gave several hundred locations on the body that could be used for this purpose, with varying degrees of difficulty.
Often they create blades that have been folded thousands of times.
This isn't quite precise; the Japanese swordsmiths usually fold it from 8-10 times, but as any self-respecting geek could tell you, that gives you a total number of layers of 256-1024.
In most cases some form of carbon steel is used
The Japanese process uses charred rice husks; they coat the iron with the husks, heat it and knock of the excess. If done correctly, it provides just the right amount of carbon to harden the blade (if you overdo it, the blade will be too brittle).
I don't know if that's the actual price for the retail version of TL in the US, but they've been charging a lot more than that here in Japan. I bought their original TL 1.0 Pro; as I recall, it set me back around 20,000 yen (~$US180). Their current versions are 9,800 yen (~$US90) for TL4.0, 29,800 yen (~$US270) for TLPro4.2, and 12,800 yen (~$US110) for TLWorkstation6.0.
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This was announced IN JAPAN, OK? Did you know that a type of cellphone service (the i-Mode) in Japan has more than 200,000 new applicants PER DAY? That Ken Kutaragi has previously said that the cellphone is Sony's biggest competitor?
Sony is doing this to get a chunk of the rapidly-growing cellphone-based comms market in Japan. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even release it overseas.
Well done, you've just shown how backward some countries are in terms of wireless communications.
Where was this announced? Japan.
What sort of wireless connectivity is available in Japan? 64Kbps (same as single-channel ISDN).
The fastest SCSI drives are at 10,000+ rpm at the moment. IDE has only recently reached 7200 rpm.
Please see my reply to myself
Basically, Fuji probably doesn't care about the rest of the world because it doesn't have to care about the rest of the world.
As for the "why are they sending these out" bit, like I said in my other post, it could just be a knee-jerk reflex by the law firm.
See my comment here.
Hate to reply to myself, but after looking at the cease-and-desist order, I noticed it's from Morrison and Foerster. They act as the "overseas" law firm for many large Japanese companies. It's possible that they've been told to watch out for copyright infringement of Fuji IP overseas, and are just sending out these letters without really consulting with the head office, if you know what I mean. In any case, it's doubtful whether Fuji has any real idea of the extent of the support for the Iron Chef series on the Internet.
The thing to remember here is that Fuji Television almost certainly *doesn't care* about the popularity of the Iron Chef series overseas. It's pretty much a dead horse here in Japan, and no matter what anyone might say Fuji makes enough money on the Japanese side of things to render any secondary income from redistribution overseas pretty much irrelevant.
I haven't the faintest idea what you're trying to say - did you actually read my post? Did you read the original post that it was a reply to? Did you understand that I was explaining the usage of the comma and period in European numerical notation?
What in God's name were you reading? Cause I sure can't figure out how you managed to make that reply to my post.
No, he's exactly right. The GPL allows you to use the software any way you like - hack it up, throw it away, turn it into a poem, whatever. However, by making a closed source program out of it, you are thereby restricting the rights of others to use it in the way that you were allowed to.
Plamo Linux is a Slackware derivative localized for use in Japanese. Similar to Slackware itself, almost all the work is done by one person.
Yet another of your standard techniques. When you see that you have nothing more to gain, and something to lose, by continuing a conversation, you cut your losses and run.
You still haven't answered my original question: WHY DID YOU USE YOUR +1 BONUS FOR THAT POST?
(BTW, at least you've got one thing right; I do feel contempt for you, along with a healthy dose of pity at the sorry life you must lead.)
Malda mentioned it when he originally announced the moderation system; the use of the +1 bonus should only be used for posts that other readers would appreciate, rather than your own personal gain (which in this case definitely applies, considering that Sig11 made his +1 post at a time when there were NO other posts in this story above one, thereby putting him at the top for those browsing with "highest moderation first" on. This would suggest that Sig11 considered his post to be more worthy than any of the ON-TOPIC posts that were sitting at 1.)
Yet another self-serving post made up to look like you're a reasonable person.
Your karma isn't a reflection of any particular "worth" inherent in your posts; it just indicates that your campaign to fool the
And as for your bit about the moderation system - of course you want people to use the moderation system; that's how you raise your karma, isn;t it? So how do you justify the bitchslap, then - because that sure looks to me like the moderation system isn;t working properly (at least in your case.)
The mod system was designed to handle posts by either sincere people posting on-topic posts, or those taking advantage of
Don't dodge the issue. You had no justification for posting with the +1 bonus, yet you did so. I called you on it; why did you make no reference whatsoever to this in your reply?
You've managed to tie people up in enough knots that some even take your side, but I have yet to see a single (on-topic) post of yours that could be considered to be a valid opinion, as opposed to one that you made up on the spot to get moderated upwards. (The reason why I specify "on-topic" is that I've seen more than enough of your off-topic posts.) I don't expect you to change; that's probably just the way you are - a shallow person that longs for some form of recognition. That's fine - but DON'T spray your drivel in places where others have to see it.
As I understand it, the GPL states that it must be attached, unaltered, to derivative works. I assume that the QTclause GPL would also have to be attached to derivative works.
Well, they wouldn't be altering the GPL. You could consider it an "extra license" for the KDE stuff. The problem is that a lot of the KDE code (especially utilities) is actually based on original GPL code not written by the KDE team, which means that they would, in effect, changing the licence of code that is not copyright to members of the KDE team.
As far as I can see, there would be no problem with the attachment of this qualification to code that was written solely by the KDE group (as long as all members involved in a particular piece of code agreed to the addition.)
The guy who wrote the letter is German (presumably). Germany is a European country. Much of Europe uses the period instead of a comma for separating groups of numbers.
Do we have a clue yet?
Although the Debian maintainers will be far clearer on the issues involved, as far as I'm aware the Debian team's objection to KDE is that the Qt licence and the GPL are not compatible when a GPL'd program is linked with the Qt library. That means they wouldn't be able to include it in non-free (despite what CmdrTaco says), simply because the act of compiling KDE and distributing the resulting binaries, in and of itself, would be a breach of the GPL.
In other words, if the Debian team were to distribute KDE, they'd have to do it in source form - not the likeliest of possibilities.
It sure is easy to insult other people's viewpoints when you're not putting your name to what you say, isn't it? He's got a valid point. What's your argument? "We'd lose money." Great.
principality-sealand.net is owned by the German company that was responsible for the short-lived invasion of Sealand (and also, as it happens, the kidnapping of the Prince of Sealand's son). Don't trust them; their business until now has mainly consisted of flogging fake Sealand passports to desparate Hong Kong families before the return of HK to China.
Who moderated this drivel up? A few facts for your edification:
1) Trademarks are valid only within certain well-defined areas - in other words, to conflict, the use of a trademark has to refer to something in the same or similar line of business.
2) The guy in this case is using it non-commercially. That exempts him from any claims upon his use of that trademark. In other words, if I'm not making any money out of it, I can call my webpage "Microsoft" or "IBM" or "Apple" and nobody can touch me.
3) Who says that the Barbie dolls on the market at the moment weren't made in Mexico? (Actually, they probably weren't - they're almost certainly made in China.)
#1: I didn't mention Damascus steel anywhere in my post. I was talking about the process used for making Japanese swords.
#2: That bit about sticking slaves with red-hot swords is crap. What you're thinking of is the tameshigiri, where they used to try out the completed blade on criminals. I've seen an old illustration that gave several hundred locations on the body that could be used for this purpose, with varying degrees of difficulty.
Often they create blades that have been folded thousands of times.
This isn't quite precise; the Japanese swordsmiths usually fold it from 8-10 times, but as any self-respecting geek could tell you, that gives you a total number of layers of 256-1024.
In most cases some form of carbon steel is used
The Japanese process uses charred rice husks; they coat the iron with the husks, heat it and knock of the excess. If done correctly, it provides just the right amount of carbon to harden the blade (if you overdo it, the blade will be too brittle).
At $50 per sale
I don't know if that's the actual price for the retail version of TL in the US, but they've been charging a lot more than that here in Japan. I bought their original TL 1.0 Pro; as I recall, it set me back around 20,000 yen (~$US180). Their current versions are 9,800 yen (~$US90) for TL4.0, 29,800 yen (~$US270) for TLPro4.2, and 12,800 yen (~$US110) for TLWorkstation6.0.
God forbid that Sun should have competent people getting in the way of product shipping dates...