Nokia already have a wifi phone with builtin SIP, but they're not releasing in the US... no market.
Unlike ipods, phones are not bought full price - they're bought subsidised (even pay as you go phones are subsidised - they gamble on you using it for a certain number of calls over its life).
So either apple has to get in bed with the phone companies - who don't want wireless because it affects their business model, or they sell it full price for far more than every other available mobile phone.
That's a major cheat - it just sends hide commands to all the windows on one 'desktop' and show commands to all the windows on the other. It also fails rather badly if one of the apps refuses to be hidden.
In XP it got a bit silly because all the window animation started up and you'd see all the windows shrinking and growing...
IE7 will be sent out as a high priority upgrade on windows update. MS have said this already.
This means that it'll supplant IE6 pretty damned quick for the average home user. Businesses will be slower of course (those that have an update server (whatever they called it this week) anyway).
I'd wager the average geek is smarter than 'average'. 100 IQ aint great (try having a conversation about politics for example with someone in that range...) - and half the population is lower than that!!
That's because it's cheap hardware - the capture is something like 160x240 which is going to look crap no matter how much bandwidth you give it (there are some online demos people have done.. they're barely watchable IMO).
A PC capture card relaying over, well, anything, will do a lot better.
PVRs remove this problem of course... A 3 year old might have difficulty even with Tivo though.
There's a growing trend of sitting the child in the front of a childrens channel then forgetting about them.. the TV becomes the babysitter. That's the key to the problem - the parent isn't interacting with the child.. in fact its only social contact is through wierd blokes in brightly coloured bird costumes who sing a lot..
So you're saying that it's illegal to run Quake because it's not specifically mentioned in the EULA.
It's illegal to change your password because it is not specifically mentioned in the EULA.
It's illegal to send an email, etc..
The sentence you quote *cannot* be an all-encompassing statement. If they tried that it would be struck down by the first court that looked at it. It's either limited by other statements or it's meaningless nonsense.
No it's like telling xerox that they can't stop someone creating a canned meat product called Xerox.
Trade marks are specific to the trade in which they are used. Otherwise the double glazing salesmen wouldn't be able to sell me windows, and the mcdonalds fish and chip shop down the road would be in real trouble.
Hormel do not product unsolicited commercial email (we hope). They definately weren't the first to do it, and the term is in the common language. They have no rights to a trademark for that use of the word.
Hormel already have the tradmark for spam the meat product. They wanted the trademark for spam as unsolicited email as well.. The EU courts said no, which seems reasonable to me - that meaning of spam is part of the common language.
It's the same as Microsoft asking a court to give them the trademark to 'Windows' meaning 'pieces of glass in the side of a house'. They wouldn't get it either (well, maybe in a US court, but not in an independent one).
Maybe there *are* no competitors. In the UK for example Sky have an absolute monopoly - you have to use their proprietary hardware (and closed encryption) to access their service and there are no other satellite services (unless you're into big dishes and foreign languages).
It'd be interesting to see if the Apple TV thing works over here.. they'd have to provide content (something they failed to do with the ipod video - you still can't get videos on itunes outside the US), and hardware to interface with the common sources of video - that means at the least a SCART input and digitiser. HD is right out - Sky have that locked down so hard there's no way to build hardware to interface to it unless you reckon Apple can work out a way of cheaply digitising raw HDMI output.
Give it a few years and we'll be bombing them as 'terrorists' just like we did iraq. We seem to decide our friends and enemies at the toss of a coin these days.
Actually we're a lot more resistant that is commonly believed.
In the 60's they worked out how much radiation damage was caused by things like hiroshima and basically worked out our tolerance by drawing a straight line on a graph.
The problem is chernobyl has shown that it isn't a straight line at all - at low-medium radiation exposure we are quite hardy - just as resistant as the animals around us (as you would expect - there's nothing 'special' about humans that would make us especially vulnerable). Predicted mutations/cancers for those who live in the affected areas isn't anywhere near what the simplistic graph would predict... in fact it's barely above the background.
No they don't routinely get arrested. To arrest someone you have to have evidence - this means the police have evidence that he *did* kill his wife. They're only now trying to get a confession or enough to convince a jury.
Minifilter drivers don't have to be signed (at least in RC1 which is the last version I tried). That of course means you can get into ring 0 with a loadable driver - all that's needed is admin rights.
Modfying the kernel after that is just a matter of working out which bits (kill the code that checksums the binaries first, etc.)
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Nokia already have a wifi phone with builtin SIP, but they're not releasing in the US... no market.
Unlike ipods, phones are not bought full price - they're bought subsidised (even pay as you go phones are subsidised - they gamble on you using it for a certain number of calls over its life).
So either apple has to get in bed with the phone companies - who don't want wireless because it affects their business model, or they sell it full price for far more than every other available mobile phone.
That's a major cheat - it just sends hide commands to all the windows on one 'desktop' and show commands to all the windows on the other. It also fails rather badly if one of the apps refuses to be hidden.
In XP it got a bit silly because all the window animation started up and you'd see all the windows shrinking and growing...
Problem with that of course is you can't pass parameters, so it's not nearly as useful.
I'd kill to get rid of that useless search bar and get the run back.
IE7 will be sent out as a high priority upgrade on windows update. MS have said this already.
This means that it'll supplant IE6 pretty damned quick for the average home user. Businesses will be slower of course (those that have an update server (whatever they called it this week) anyway).
Wait until it's a forced download on windows update.. then you'll have to redo a new set of hacks to make ie7 work!
Somehow without breaking IE6 for those that avoided the update...
I'd wager the average geek is smarter than 'average'. 100 IQ aint great (try having a conversation about politics for example with someone in that range...) - and half the population is lower than that!!
That's because it's cheap hardware - the capture is something like 160x240 which is going to look crap no matter how much bandwidth you give it (there are some online demos people have done.. they're barely watchable IMO).
A PC capture card relaying over, well, anything, will do a lot better.
Or put more sharks in the water to increase sales of ice cream
PVRs remove this problem of course... A 3 year old might have difficulty even with Tivo though.
There's a growing trend of sitting the child in the front of a childrens channel then forgetting about them.. the TV becomes the babysitter. That's the key to the problem - the parent isn't interacting with the child.. in fact its only social contact is through wierd blokes in brightly coloured bird costumes who sing a lot..
That conversation might actually work in this house... except the Wife decided she preferred Linux years ago.
So you're saying that it's illegal to run Quake because it's not specifically mentioned in the EULA.
It's illegal to change your password because it is not specifically mentioned in the EULA.
It's illegal to send an email, etc..
The sentence you quote *cannot* be an all-encompassing statement. If they tried that it would be struck down by the first court that looked at it. It's either limited by other statements or it's meaningless nonsense.
So when a customer reports a bug that shows up only on Vista Home I'm supposed to do *what* excatly.
Tell them to get lost because microsoft won't let us setup a VM to test their fault?
Or is a trademark restricted to the indstry in which it was registered? If so, I'm starting Microsoft Sock Conditioners Incorporated.
It is, and there is absolutely nothing to stop you doing that.
No it's like telling xerox that they can't stop someone creating a canned meat product called Xerox.
Trade marks are specific to the trade in which they are used. Otherwise the double glazing salesmen wouldn't be able to sell me windows, and the mcdonalds fish and chip shop down the road would be in real trouble.
Hormel do not product unsolicited commercial email (we hope). They definately weren't the first to do it, and the term is in the common language. They have no rights to a trademark for that use of the word.
Ahh but we have Hoover(tm)
That's not what they were after.
Hormel already have the tradmark for spam the meat product. They wanted the trademark for spam as unsolicited email as well.. The EU courts said no, which seems reasonable to me - that meaning of spam is part of the common language.
It's the same as Microsoft asking a court to give them the trademark to 'Windows' meaning 'pieces of glass in the side of a house'. They wouldn't get it either (well, maybe in a US court, but not in an independent one).
Give me a user interface like that ship on Andromeda and watch me get productive.
You mean the type of AI you switch one day and find she has quit and got a job with SG-1?
Maybe there *are* no competitors. In the UK for example Sky have an absolute monopoly - you have to use their proprietary hardware (and closed encryption) to access their service and there are no other satellite services (unless you're into big dishes and foreign languages).
It'd be interesting to see if the Apple TV thing works over here.. they'd have to provide content (something they failed to do with the ipod video - you still can't get videos on itunes outside the US), and hardware to interface with the common sources of video - that means at the least a SCART input and digitiser. HD is right out - Sky have that locked down so hard there's no way to build hardware to interface to it unless you reckon Apple can work out a way of cheaply digitising raw HDMI output.
Give it a few years and we'll be bombing them as 'terrorists' just like we did iraq. We seem to decide our friends and enemies at the toss of a coin these days.
Actually we're a lot more resistant that is commonly believed.
In the 60's they worked out how much radiation damage was caused by things like hiroshima and basically worked out our tolerance by drawing a straight line on a graph.
The problem is chernobyl has shown that it isn't a straight line at all - at low-medium radiation exposure we are quite hardy - just as resistant as the animals around us (as you would expect - there's nothing 'special' about humans that would make us especially vulnerable). Predicted mutations/cancers for those who live in the affected areas isn't anywhere near what the simplistic graph would predict... in fact it's barely above the background.
No they don't routinely get arrested. To arrest someone you have to have evidence - this means the police have evidence that he *did* kill his wife. They're only now trying to get a confession or enough to convince a jury.
In the case of the xbox it was a fairly closed system with harcoded BIOS support for the DRM and custom hardware.
There are PCs with TPM chips that are at that level now but they're still fairly rare - in general a PC is still an open architecture.
Up until fairly recently the IFS kit cost about $1000 and the only book describing NT filesystems cost about $250 (and was out of print anyway).
If you have the new DDK (labeled longhorn beta DDK on my MSDN but just don't use the longhorn bits) that has the IFS kit rolled in now.
That said, writing a filesystem driver is *hard* and I would set aside 6-12 months development time for it.
It wouldn't work. At the driver level there *is* no 32bit compatibility mode.
If you think you managed to get a 32bit driver working you weren't loading a driver - just a 32bit applicaton.
Minifilter drivers don't have to be signed (at least in RC1 which is the last version I tried). That of course means you can get into ring 0 with a loadable driver - all that's needed is admin rights.
Modfying the kernel after that is just a matter of working out which bits (kill the code that checksums the binaries first, etc.)