It's not so much about monopolies, but perceived monopolies. Most people believe Apple has a monopoly on computers that run osX. Many people believe Apple has a monopoly on computers that will run media editing programs. Far too many people believe Apple has a monopoly on computers that, "just work"(tm).
I don't think Nintendo is worried so much about someone coming out with a better game. Their worries probably run more along the lines that a rival company will come out with a game first and either sue or just saturate the market with an inferior pre-knockoff.
Redundant yes, but it's also much more accessible to users. Most end-users have an idea what an mp3 is, but mention the words, "cryptographic key file" or "X.509 cert" and eyes start to glaze over.
Well, it's a slippery slope. First they're faking the fireworks, then they're faking the torch run, eventually the gold medal will go with whoever can render the fastest while the athletes relax back at the club.
It seems to me the OP is mad because he feels lied to. He feels they didn't do enough to say that they were creating the spectacle artificially and thus perpetrated a fraud which sets an unpleasant precedent.
Not really.There are people out there who will pay for any sort of lewd photos (it's a corollary of rule 34), and where Feign's going he's probably going to develop a taste for that sort of thing anyway.
Yeah, that's how he got caught, sorta. One of the women noticed that her computer was running slower and a new LED was lighting up when she got close to her computer.
Thing is... the blackberry's primary function is to serve as a business tool and it is designed that way. the iPhone is something that anyone who uses an iPod (there's a lot of em) will understand. You're comparing apples(pun intended) with oranges.
The blackberry's primary function is to allow people to communicate. The iPhone's primary function... is to make money, but that's unfair... is, ostensibly, similar. The value of the interface is subjective. Of course some people will like it and some people will worship it to the exclusion of all else, but contrary to popular belief, not everybody.
Um... there are about 1000 apps in the appstore that can be installed and how they are the delivered via iTunes or directly to the iPhone is the most user friendly yet.
While there are plenty of apps available one of the top three iPhone complaints I hear on a daily basis is that an app that is available for jailbroken phones isn't available, or that Apple's draconian restrictionsprevent an app from functioningin a useful manner. I'm sure it's very easy to use, but I believe that's all for nothing if what you get out of it is utterly insufficient.
Updates can only potentially brick iPhones if they have been jailbroken. If you're going to frick around with the firmware of a device using code from someone other than the manufacturer... well.. you're asking for trouble aren't you.
Actually, the biggest complaint I hear about blackberries is that they work. People get blackberries and feel like they are somehow more reachable - even to the point where it now impinges on their downtime.
In my experience most people don't complain about their iPhones because they realize they are making a compromise by buying one. "Gee, it's closed and I can't install apps on it like my other phone... Oh well, it's an iPhone! I downloaded an update and now it's bricked... Oh well, it's an iPhone!" etc. ad absurdum. It's kind of like a smoker of tobacco, "Yeah, I know it will kill me, but I like smoking! Yeah, I know it's expensive and I'll be reviled, but I like smoking!" Nothing else matters 'cause the user has his fix.
My memory's not that great either. From papal bull Romanus Pontifax, 1455:
...We, weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid [King] -- to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit...
If this lawsuit succeeds the native americans could only sue the catholic church for slander and defamation eg: saying they had no souls and could be slaughtered like animals or however manifest destiny is justified. The Knights Templar, as parent and GP mentioned, are very unlikely to be making any material claims.
So, are CD penalties to be thrown out next? Aren't they just as unfair? How about traffic tickets? What monetary loss is represented by a $200 speeding ticket? And besides, where was the contract that I signed that made me agree to pay the $200 fine anyway?
Well, traffic tickets represent the monetary loss of paying $20-$50 an hour to have some guy stationed on the side of the road in a souped-up, late model, American sedan with thousands of dollars of electronic equipment and the v8 idling to wait for you. The particular contract you signed that makes you responsible for it depends on where you live.
Usually they have a stipulation you can't have been a customer for a certain period of time before getting a new contract and the discount, but yeah, I think it does.
Ha-ha, I use Sprint. Never got kicked off of EVDO for downloading some fan-subbed Anime:P (though they do have their own issues, don't get me wrong).
Seriously, though. Why do people still use AT&T? Aside from iPhone fever or living in a remote area where AT&T is the only game in town it sounds like there really aren't any compelling reasons to sign up with them.
P2P has a lot of overhead that regular ftp, or even http, doesn't. It's like mandating new cars have a certain mpg rating to conserve oil. It would be much more effective to just disallow registration of any vehicle that didn't meet the new standard, but after five years or so nine out of ten vehicles on the highway will be new and the remaining 10% won't be that much of an issue.
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It's not so much about monopolies, but perceived monopolies. Most people believe Apple has a monopoly on computers that run osX. Many people believe Apple has a monopoly on computers that will run media editing programs. Far too many people believe Apple has a monopoly on computers that, "just work"(tm).
I don't think Nintendo is worried so much about someone coming out with a better game. Their worries probably run more along the lines that a rival company will come out with a game first and either sue or just saturate the market with an inferior pre-knockoff.
To be fair he is/was the public face of MS and he seems to have wanted it that way.
Redundant yes, but it's also much more accessible to users. Most end-users have an idea what an mp3 is, but mention the words, "cryptographic key file" or "X.509 cert" and eyes start to glaze over.
Well, it's a slippery slope. First they're faking the fireworks, then they're faking the torch run, eventually the gold medal will go with whoever can render the fastest while the athletes relax back at the club.
It seems to me the OP is mad because he feels lied to. He feels they didn't do enough to say that they were creating the spectacle artificially and thus perpetrated a fraud which sets an unpleasant precedent.
I got an, 'A' in rocket science. It's not nearly as hard as they make it out to be.
Did we ever reach an agreement about those micro-black-holes?
Right on.
Not really.There are people out there who will pay for any sort of lewd photos (it's a corollary of rule 34), and where Feign's going he's probably going to develop a taste for that sort of thing anyway.
Yeah, that's how he got caught, sorta. One of the women noticed that her computer was running slower and a new LED was lighting up when she got close to her computer.
Thing is... the blackberry's primary function is to serve as a business tool and it is designed that way. the iPhone is something that anyone who uses an iPod (there's a lot of em) will understand. You're comparing apples(pun intended) with oranges.
The blackberry's primary function is to allow people to communicate. The iPhone's primary function ... is to make money, but that's unfair ... is, ostensibly, similar. The value of the interface is subjective. Of course some people will like it and some people will worship it to the exclusion of all else, but contrary to popular belief, not everybody.
Um... there are about 1000 apps in the appstore that can be installed and how they are the delivered via iTunes or directly to the iPhone is the most user friendly yet.
While there are plenty of apps available one of the top three iPhone complaints I hear on a daily basis is that an app that is available for jailbroken phones isn't available, or that Apple's draconian restrictions prevent an app from functioning in a useful manner. I'm sure it's very easy to use, but I believe that's all for nothing if what you get out of it is utterly insufficient.
Updates can only potentially brick iPhones if they have been jailbroken. If you're going to frick around with the firmware of a device using code from someone other than the manufacturer... well.. you're asking for trouble aren't you.
How soon we forget.
Forgive me. I'm only using the terminology I overhear from our local iPhone users. I'll use air-quotes next time, K?
Actually, the biggest complaint I hear about blackberries is that they work. People get blackberries and feel like they are somehow more reachable - even to the point where it now impinges on their downtime.
In my experience most people don't complain about their iPhones because they realize they are making a compromise by buying one. "Gee, it's closed and I can't install apps on it like my other phone... Oh well, it's an iPhone! I downloaded an update and now it's bricked... Oh well, it's an iPhone!" etc. ad absurdum. It's kind of like a smoker of tobacco, "Yeah, I know it will kill me, but I like smoking! Yeah, I know it's expensive and I'll be reviled, but I like smoking!" Nothing else matters 'cause the user has his fix.
It's obviously part of a conspiracy to leverage /. to generate even more iHype. Maybe the rumor was started by someone whom ScuttleMonkey owed a favor?
My memory's not that great either. From papal bull Romanus Pontifax, 1455 :
...We, weighing all and singular the premises with due meditation, and noting that since we had formerly by other letters of ours granted among other things free and ample faculty to the aforesaid [King] -- to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit...
Y'know that one where a wealthy man has about as much trouble getting into heaven as a camel through the eye of a needle..?
If this lawsuit succeeds the native americans could only sue the catholic church for slander and defamation eg: saying they had no souls and could be slaughtered like animals or however manifest destiny is justified. The Knights Templar, as parent and GP mentioned, are very unlikely to be making any material claims.
Far be it from me to RTFA, but the summary implies that the miss-application of copyright laws seems to have inspired some innovation.
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So, are CD penalties to be thrown out next? Aren't they just as unfair? How about traffic tickets? What monetary loss is represented by a $200 speeding ticket? And besides, where was the contract that I signed that made me agree to pay the $200 fine anyway?
Well, traffic tickets represent the monetary loss of paying $20-$50 an hour to have some guy stationed on the side of the road in a souped-up, late model, American sedan with thousands of dollars of electronic equipment and the v8 idling to wait for you. The particular contract you signed that makes you responsible for it depends on where you live.
Usually they have a stipulation you can't have been a customer for a certain period of time before getting a new contract and the discount, but yeah, I think it does.
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Either way, the newsgroup support call was kind of a rare thing, like finding a Yeti or something.
I think it has more to do with the fact that people who use usenet are either already knowledgeable or are capable of looking stuff up for themselves.
I dunno if it's really at that great at club fed... i mean, that spammer went *wacko* there...
What the hell is selling short, anyway?
To be fair he probably wasn't all that sane going in to club fed.
Ha-ha, I use Sprint. Never got kicked off of EVDO for downloading some fan-subbed Anime :P (though they do have their own issues, don't get me wrong).
Seriously, though. Why do people still use AT&T? Aside from iPhone fever or living in a remote area where AT&T is the only game in town it sounds like there really aren't any compelling reasons to sign up with them.
P2P has a lot of overhead that regular ftp, or even http, doesn't. It's like mandating new cars have a certain mpg rating to conserve oil. It would be much more effective to just disallow registration of any vehicle that didn't meet the new standard, but after five years or so nine out of ten vehicles on the highway will be new and the remaining 10% won't be that much of an issue.
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