Accusing the Nigerian Government of corruption is like accusing the sun of shining. I can't help thinking he'd have had a far better chance of keeping Linux on those boxes if he'd simply told the Nigerian Govt. that those discount Windows licences that Ballmer was bribing them with could be sold on at a big profit.
He'd even get bonus points for getting round the EULA by hinting heavily enough that it really ought to be illegal under Nigerian law.
The article seems to assume that these 250,000 iPhones that are not unlocked will never be unlocked, which doesn't make sense to me. The iPhone is the sort of thing people will buy as a gift, so at any given time a reasonable percentage will be bought and giftwrapped waiting for a birthday before being unwrapped and registered.
"Wisdom of Crowds" systems produce good results because there is a feedback loop, and elections don't have that feedback.
To sift the wisdom from the noise, there has to be some method of determining which are 'good' inputs and which are 'bad'. With Evolution, the feedback is easy to understand, bad mutations die/fail to breed/whatever, good ones get more food/sex/whatever and are more likely to reproduce.
An election has no such feedback. There is no good method of looking at the individual inputs from the results and pruning out the bad ones or promoting the good ones. Nobody gets to change their mind and alter their vote when they see the results, because for each election, the candidates change. The crowd isn't able to look at Bush v Gore and apply the results to Bush v Kerry, because Gore != Kerry. Only once in the last hundred years have the candidates been rematched (Eisenhower vs Stevenson in 1952 and 1956), so only one has meaningful feedback been applied... and even then it's not very good feedback as the first election was Eisenhower vs Stevenson and the second was President Eisenhower vs Stevenson, which is a different case even if you don't look at increased age, policy shifts, running mate changes, etc.
It depends on the particular contract drawn up between the 2 parties.
Given that 'one click' was under heavy attack for obviousness, I think Apple would be pretty dim not to have included a 'pay us back if it's invalidated' clause in the deal.
Don't forget that the terms of Apple's deal with Amazon were never made public. Apple may well have said 'here's $1, give us a license and we'll shut up about all this prior art our lawyers found, so you can go on pursuing other companies, ok?'.
The new 40Gb no compatibility, half the USB connectors, no memory card slot model is going to be £299 here in Britain, which is 610.61 US dollars at today's exchange rate. The 60Gb model is cut to 'just' £349, or $712.72 US.
Yes, these prices do include sales tax, but it's still way, waaaay too much for me or anyone I know to consider picking one up, especially as the only PS3 game that really interests me (Gran Turismo) slipped from being a launch title and has now vanished into development hell, with no sign of a firm believable release date.
The stated 'fair usage' limit in the article is a tiny 200Mb a month. It's possible to exceed that by downloading just 4 albums of music from the iTunes store!
I can't see O2 being able to enforce such a ridiculous limit, it clearly falls foul of the UK's law that states unfair contract terms cannot be enforced.
Darl's decision to try and extort money from customers based on FUD and false claims that they owned Unix, Darl's decision to bet the company on a lawsuit against IBM despite having no evidence, Darl's decision to give up on Caldera's profitable Linux business, or indeed any other decisions that Darl may have made.
Oh, that's all right then Darl, we'll let you off then.
Over here in Britain, Sony are desperately trying to cling to a ridiculous £425 price point (that's $855 US at today's exchange rate). You could get BOTH a Wii + game AND an Xbox 360 + game for less!
Stores are not being allowed to officially offer discounts, but judging by the 'unofficial' hand written cardboard signs outside every games shop, stores can't shift the boxes without offering a huge bundle of freebies. You'd be hard pushed to buy a PS3 without art least 2 free A-list games, 2 free blu-ray films and a free sixaxis controller in my local mall.
Add in the way Sony UK are stubbornly pretending that 80Gb machines don't exist (all we get is 60Gb ones without the Emotion engine) and it seems they are hell-bent on crashing and burning over here.
It might be worth throwing into the debate the use of 441Hz that I've seen in quite a few computer-based synthesisers. With the CD standard of 16bit 44.1kHz sampling (or more recently multiples thereof), having an A at 441 makes tuning tables a bit easier to work out.
So, we know Apple are calling in journalists from all over Europe, we know that in the iPhone launch presentation Steve Jobs said Europe would get the iPhone in Q3 2007, and we know there are only another 27 days of Q3 2007 left. So why are people jumping to the conclusion that this is a iPod launch?
They may not be bringing the suits but the RIAA is, as far as I can tell, buying the laws.
The defence of "this (law/ridiculously high penalty) only exists because of the illegal activities of the plaintiff and others" sounds a very reasonable one to me.
It's not just a good idea, here in Britain, it's the law too.
Basically, our spam law says it's illegal to send unsolicited commercial e-mails to private individuals - there's nothing to say that you have to be the author of the spam to fall foul of that law, you are still guilty if you send me an unsolicited commercial e-mail by bouncing it to me from a third party when I'm being joe-jobbed.
A nicely worded 'please change your settings, or I'll tell the information commissioner to fine you £5,000 per mail' e-mail from me has already made a few major businesses and governement organisations change their policy on this, and stop forwarding spam.
Winning one "it's someone else's fault" case is enough to get the client off the hook, and they win one case if the judge comes down in favour of net neutrality, and the other one if he comes down against it.
Of course there's huge collateral damage to the legal system and the internet either way, but that's not the lawyer's responsibility...
Given that patents can be awarded for '(existing idea) but on the internet', I wonder if the formulation '(existing idea) over my dead body' is also allowable?
You are too stupid to understand nature's simultaneous 12-phase powercube! Cubic Creation of 4 corner separate simultaneous 12 phase Days within 1 Earth rotation - transcends and contradicts the 1 Day rotation and all ONEism / Singularity religions - proving them to constitute Evil on Earth for the parallel Opposites. No god equals 4 corner stages of metamorphic rotating humanity - as a baby, child, parent and grandparent evolution of motherboards! I offer you $10,000.00 to disprove math that 1 rotation of 4 Earth quadrants within the 4 quarter Harmonic Time Cube does create 12 simultaneous 24 hr power phases!
What are the farmers taking away? Well in Runescape, they are hogging some limited resources to the extent that non-farmers don't get much of a look-in. Cutting yew trees on free-to play servers is a case of dodge the macroers, and it's very tough to kill a green dragon in the wildereness when there are hoards of gold farmers camping the respawn spots.
The company behind Runescape have recently started a high-profile campaign of banning anyone buying gold as well as anyone selling it, which seems to be helping.
Well, it might do eventually. The roadster production line was sold to AC, who plan to put a bigger engine and stick-shift into a facelifted roadster. I'm not sure that 427 Cobra V8 will fit this time though!
Having owned an original 2000 model year smart, and now have a 2003 Roadster), I can put your worries about the 'unscientific' 5 bar guage to rest. When you get to the last bar, the display changes to a numeric readout showing litres of petrol remaining in 0.5l increments.
You're assuming he only sent 1 mail to each address. If this guy is anything like the people asking me to deposit a currency my country doesn't use with 'VIP Royal Casinos', the people using text from bugzilla for their mail titles, or the countless women with middle initials who behind 'can you imagine that you are healthy' he'll have spammed each one of them dozens of times per day.
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Accusing the Nigerian Government of corruption is like accusing the sun of shining. I can't help thinking he'd have had a far better chance of keeping Linux on those boxes if he'd simply told the Nigerian Govt. that those discount Windows licences that Ballmer was bribing them with could be sold on at a big profit.
He'd even get bonus points for getting round the EULA by hinting heavily enough that it really ought to be illegal under Nigerian law.
Maybe you should pay closer attention to the word "simultaneously"?
The article seems to assume that these 250,000 iPhones that are not unlocked will never be unlocked, which doesn't make sense to me. The iPhone is the sort of thing people will buy as a gift, so at any given time a reasonable percentage will be bought and giftwrapped waiting for a birthday before being unwrapped and registered.
On the upside, this does mean that getting 'within an order of magnitude' of the claims shouldn't be too hard!
"Wisdom of Crowds" systems produce good results because there is a feedback loop, and elections don't have that feedback.
To sift the wisdom from the noise, there has to be some method of determining which are 'good' inputs and which are 'bad'. With Evolution, the feedback is easy to understand, bad mutations die/fail to breed/whatever, good ones get more food/sex/whatever and are more likely to reproduce.
An election has no such feedback. There is no good method of looking at the individual inputs from the results and pruning out the bad ones or promoting the good ones. Nobody gets to change their mind and alter their vote when they see the results, because for each election, the candidates change. The crowd isn't able to look at Bush v Gore and apply the results to Bush v Kerry, because Gore != Kerry. Only once in the last hundred years have the candidates been rematched (Eisenhower vs Stevenson in 1952 and 1956), so only one has meaningful feedback been applied... and even then it's not very good feedback as the first election was Eisenhower vs Stevenson and the second was President Eisenhower vs Stevenson, which is a different case even if you don't look at increased age, policy shifts, running mate changes, etc.
It depends on the particular contract drawn up between the 2 parties.
Given that 'one click' was under heavy attack for obviousness, I think Apple would be pretty dim not to have included a 'pay us back if it's invalidated' clause in the deal.
Don't forget that the terms of Apple's deal with Amazon were never made public. Apple may well have said 'here's $1, give us a license and we'll shut up about all this prior art our lawyers found, so you can go on pursuing other companies, ok?'.
A nice idea, but that would be a violation of copyright, and (let's be very clear about this) The Pirate Bay does not violate copyright laws.
The new 40Gb no compatibility, half the USB connectors, no memory card slot model is going to be £299 here in Britain, which is 610.61 US dollars at today's exchange rate. The 60Gb model is cut to 'just' £349, or $712.72 US.
Yes, these prices do include sales tax, but it's still way, waaaay too much for me or anyone I know to consider picking one up, especially as the only PS3 game that really interests me (Gran Turismo) slipped from being a launch title and has now vanished into development hell, with no sign of a firm believable release date.
The stated 'fair usage' limit in the article is a tiny 200Mb a month. It's possible to exceed that by downloading just 4 albums of music from the iTunes store!
I can't see O2 being able to enforce such a ridiculous limit, it clearly falls foul of the UK's law that states unfair contract terms cannot be enforced.
Darl's decision to try and extort money from customers based on FUD and false claims that they owned Unix, Darl's decision to bet the company on a lawsuit against IBM despite having no evidence, Darl's decision to give up on Caldera's profitable Linux business, or indeed any other decisions that Darl may have made.
Oh, that's all right then Darl, we'll let you off then.
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Websites are paid per click
I never click adverts
Bandwidth costs money
Then surely I'm saving site owners money when I opt-out of ads?
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Over here in Britain, Sony are desperately trying to cling to a ridiculous £425 price point (that's $855 US at today's exchange rate). You could get BOTH a Wii + game AND an Xbox 360 + game for less!
Stores are not being allowed to officially offer discounts, but judging by the 'unofficial' hand written cardboard signs outside every games shop, stores can't shift the boxes without offering a huge bundle of freebies. You'd be hard pushed to buy a PS3 without art least 2 free A-list games, 2 free blu-ray films and a free sixaxis controller in my local mall.
Add in the way Sony UK are stubbornly pretending that 80Gb machines don't exist (all we get is 60Gb ones without the Emotion engine) and it seems they are hell-bent on crashing and burning over here.
It might be worth throwing into the debate the use of 441Hz that I've seen in quite a few computer-based synthesisers. With the CD standard of 16bit 44.1kHz sampling (or more recently multiples thereof), having an A at 441 makes tuning tables a bit easier to work out.
So, we know Apple are calling in journalists from all over Europe, we know that in the iPhone launch presentation Steve Jobs said Europe would get the iPhone in Q3 2007, and we know there are only another 27 days of Q3 2007 left. So why are people jumping to the conclusion that this is a iPod launch?
They may not be bringing the suits but the RIAA is, as far as I can tell, buying the laws.
The defence of "this (law/ridiculously high penalty) only exists because of the illegal activities of the plaintiff and others" sounds a very reasonable one to me.
It's not just a good idea, here in Britain, it's the law too.
Basically, our spam law says it's illegal to send unsolicited commercial e-mails to private individuals - there's nothing to say that you have to be the author of the spam to fall foul of that law, you are still guilty if you send me an unsolicited commercial e-mail by bouncing it to me from a third party when I'm being joe-jobbed.
A nicely worded 'please change your settings, or I'll tell the information commissioner to fine you £5,000 per mail' e-mail from me has already made a few major businesses and governement organisations change their policy on this, and stop forwarding spam.
Actuall, it's a brilliant win/win strategy.
Winning one "it's someone else's fault" case is enough to get the client off the hook, and they win one case if the judge comes down in favour of net neutrality, and the other one if he comes down against it.
Of course there's huge collateral damage to the legal system and the internet either way, but that's not the lawyer's responsibility...
Given that patents can be awarded for '(existing idea) but on the internet', I wonder if the formulation '(existing idea) over my dead body' is also allowable?
You are too stupid to understand nature's simultaneous 12-phase powercube! Cubic Creation of 4 corner separate simultaneous 12 phase Days within 1 Earth rotation - transcends and contradicts the 1 Day rotation and all ONEism / Singularity religions - proving them to constitute Evil on Earth for the parallel Opposites. No god equals 4 corner stages of metamorphic rotating humanity - as a baby, child, parent and grandparent evolution of motherboards! I offer you $10,000.00 to disprove math that 1 rotation of 4 Earth quadrants within the 4 quarter Harmonic Time Cube does create 12 simultaneous 24 hr power phases!
What are the farmers taking away? Well in Runescape, they are hogging some limited resources to the extent that non-farmers don't get much of a look-in. Cutting yew trees on free-to play servers is a case of dodge the macroers, and it's very tough to kill a green dragon in the wildereness when there are hoards of gold farmers camping the respawn spots.
The company behind Runescape have recently started a high-profile campaign of banning anyone buying gold as well as anyone selling it, which seems to be helping.
Well, it might do eventually. The roadster production line was sold to AC, who plan to put a bigger engine and stick-shift into a facelifted roadster. I'm not sure that 427 Cobra V8 will fit this time though!
Having owned an original 2000 model year smart, and now have a 2003 Roadster), I can put your worries about the 'unscientific' 5 bar guage to rest. When you get to the last bar, the display changes to a numeric readout showing litres of petrol remaining in 0.5l increments.
Adblock is the reason every mac I use runs Firefox, and it's the reason all my windows-using friends who have moved away from IE went to Firefox.
Without adblock, I can't see Safari for windows being much more than a dev tool for iPhone apps.
You're assuming he only sent 1 mail to each address. If this guy is anything like the people asking me to deposit a currency my country doesn't use with 'VIP Royal Casinos', the people using text from bugzilla for their mail titles, or the countless women with middle initials who behind 'can you imagine that you are healthy' he'll have spammed each one of them dozens of times per day.