Apple is the public face of this. They should be worried that this kind of thing could effect their reputation. You would hope that they view themselves as vulnerable to backlash over this. If nothing else, they should be concerned about covering their butts and making sure they don't look like thieves.
They should not be acting as if they think they can get away with anything.
If AMC pulled a fast one on them, then Apple needed to adjust their approach accordingly. They failed to do that.
They acted as if they're above the law and now they are being sued. This is generally why companies are sued. They think they can be jerks and walk all over the little people.
So only one site had the balls to say something negative about a Mac product despite the fact that it had it coming. That is nothing to brag about. All this does is reinforce the idea that Apple users subscribe to a mindless groupthink.
The fact that this app has been doing abusive things in the past does not excuse the fact that they are doing it know.
And why should you use 3rd party cleanup tools on a Mac? That's the kind of crap that WinDOS is supposed to be famous for.
The relevant patents are part of an industry standard.
Taxes may be government theft, but patents are corporate theft. They allow scum like you to try to claim ownership of the work of others without even the pretense of trying to work for the greater good.
You're an idiot. You are the statist here. Without a state monopoly on coercive force, a patent cannot exist at all.
They say that possession is 9/10th of the law. There is a certain logic to that. To hold something is to own it since you can exclude others from it even without a government. Can't do that with an invention.
> it is all about stealing from those who work hard
Who would that be exactly?
This is an implementation of a standard. In some cases, this will be embedded in national standards that are dictated by national governments.
Ultimately, this will allow you to use those things that you have PAID for like services you've subscribed to or creative media you have PAID for or home grown content that you created yourself.
This is something that will allow you to use your own property.
You have to be a real moron to equate it with taxes.
> Let me know when I can slap a desktop class processor in my Nexus10
Well that's what you get for using lame hardware and trying to pretend that it's anything but a bad joke.
ARM hardware sucks. Plenty of us will happily point out this fact given any opportunity. You don't even need to use the most extreme examples to demonstrate this either.
"Mobile" devices are like a blast from the past (90s) when it comes to performance.
There is nothing particularly "grown up" about passively accepting that a situation is fucked up.
Nor is there anything particularly "adult" about ignoring the vast bulk of the evidence in order to try and fixate on a vanishingly small set of corner cases.
Policies need to be judged by their results in aggregate. This is especially true for patents because this stuff doesn't represent any actual natural rights or any actual property. This is supposed to be about promoting progress.
The few good ones aren't good enough to make up for the bad ones. There is no imperative to put up with ANY of them if the system as a whole is not beneficial.
So what you are saying is that you are a weasel and a sleaze.
Microsoft doesn't have to submit it's FAT related patents for "special treatment" because they have already been a dominant force in the industry perhaps for LONGER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE.
Microsoft doesn't have to "abuse FRAND" because it can abuse it's well established (and confirmed by the courts) monopoly position.
> I hate Microsoft with every ounce of my being, but even I think you're full of shit here. Demanding large royalties for standards-essential patents on a small part of a large product is the road to hell for the technology industry.
Yeah, and Microsoft is the worst offender here. They certainly don't deserve any sympathy in this case.
Although just as the patent system is broken, so too is the system for creating and enforcing national or industry standards. It's no less corrupt than anything else in business these days.
The entire notion of a "standards essential patent" is obscene.
> Tell me when the last Israeli-Syrian war was again?
The last one never really ended.
The only one of Israels neighbors that ever actually formally declared an end to hostilities is Egypt.
Carter gets lots of "street cred" for being the guy that brokered that treaty. You remember Carter? He still wanders around the world building houses for poor people and making speeches at national monuments.
Hardly comparable to a war that ended 150 years ago.
> You don't need a PhD in math to teach 10th grade geometry. I'm not in the education mix, but I doubt that's our problem.
Nobody is talking about a PhD. We're talking about COMPETENCE and you are trying to throw out the notion of a PhD as a red herring.
It should not take a PhD. Although an overqualified teacher is likely going to be the only one that can manage. There is a wide skill gap driven by general anti-intellectualism in this country. Teachers suffer from it as much as anyone else (perhaps more so).
Your own remarks are a manifestation of that anti-intellectualism.
Forget about Gen Y geeks trying to get along with their older counterparts in the IT department. I see this kind of inappropriate informality from TEACHERS in school related communications.
This is nonsense from someone who's probably a member of the 1% with some sort of white liberal guilt. I would be shocked if it situation was ever any different than it is now. I would expect the wealthy to give their children the best possible advantage. I would never expect that there was ever a time when the children of the genuinely wealthy DID NOT attend private schools quite apart from the public education system.
>>>There's so much bullshit in your post that I don't know where to start replying: >>> >>You clearly and your mother clearly holds the children and parents in contempt. >> > I honestly don't know how you got that from reading the grandparent post.
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow but it's all laid out as plain as day in the original post. If this were some reading comprehension exercise, you would get a big fat F.
"Professional educators" in public schools have an inflated view of themselves, contempt for everyone else, and a serious lack of accountability and it shows.
This isn't an area where you can really BS anyone. Everyone remembers their own experiences both as students and as parents. We all have first hand knowledge. There are no great secrets here. You can't hide anything.
You can perhaps discount a single anecdote but not an entire tsunami of them.
In some countries, the concept of "no child left behind" really means that. The ENTIRE class stays on the subject until EVERYONE in the class understands the material. This is a much more meaningful notion of "no child left behind" than the similarly named law in the US.
In the US, even a class of "gifted" students may need to be tutored at home because the teacher paid by the state didn't bother to do her job.
Plus this idiot doesn't seem to be acknowleding the fact that public education is already highly segmented. White flight (by all races) is driven by a desire to escape from urban school districts where many of the students are only going to drag your kids down.
Most people that have any interest in the education of their child already isolate their children in other ways. If they don't flee to the suburbs then they seek out magnate schools.
This fixation on private schools seems like a wierd liberal fetish that doesn't have any real relation to reality.
> The idea is that you're rewarding the child for putting in effort
Then reward effort directly. Possibly even give it extra weight in circumstances when you want to encourage a particular person to improve their achievement level.
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Sounds a lot like what a kid might subject a disk based iPod or Archos to.
We've already been there and done that. Spinning rust is not nearly as fragile as the fashinistas of tech want you to think.
"bandwagon" is the word for it. Usually associated with mindless following and bad rhetoric.
...yes and something you need to be able to express the moment you encounter someone that is not a computing professional.
Although I tend to express these things in terms of movies or TV episodes as that is what tends to take up most of the space on my own 500G Archos.
Plus 'danes can't relate to 100K photos any more then they can relate to half a terabye.
Apple is the public face of this. They should be worried that this kind of thing could effect their reputation. You would hope that they view themselves as vulnerable to backlash over this. If nothing else, they should be concerned about covering their butts and making sure they don't look like thieves.
They should not be acting as if they think they can get away with anything.
If AMC pulled a fast one on them, then Apple needed to adjust their approach accordingly. They failed to do that.
They acted as if they're above the law and now they are being sued. This is generally why companies are sued. They think they can be jerks and walk all over the little people.
You are just a fanboy talking out of your ass trying to find any lame excuse you can to excuse your pet brand.
You must be an alumni of the Cuppertino school of law.
Yes. The perfect excuse to tolerate liars and cheats.
Want to fix it? Use a better brand of video card.
There's no great mystery about any of this stuff. If you are still suffering then you are suffering because you choose to sabotage yourself.
You mean ALSA or something layererd on top of ALSA?
The rest is nonsense perpetrated by a lazy corporate developer who couldn't keep up with what the community can do on it's own?
Some whine. Some just take care of business.
So only one site had the balls to say something negative about a Mac product despite the fact that it had it coming. That is nothing to brag about. All this does is reinforce the idea that Apple users subscribe to a mindless groupthink.
The fact that this app has been doing abusive things in the past does not excuse the fact that they are doing it know.
And why should you use 3rd party cleanup tools on a Mac? That's the kind of crap that WinDOS is supposed to be famous for.
Your response is a total fanboy fail.
There is no "property" here.
The relevant patents are part of an industry standard.
Taxes may be government theft, but patents are corporate theft. They allow scum like you to try to claim ownership of the work of others without even the pretense of trying to work for the greater good.
You're an idiot. You are the statist here. Without a state monopoly on coercive force, a patent cannot exist at all.
They say that possession is 9/10th of the law. There is a certain logic to that. To hold something is to own it since you can exclude others from it even without a government. Can't do that with an invention.
> it is all about stealing from those who work hard
Who would that be exactly?
This is an implementation of a standard. In some cases, this will be embedded in national standards that are dictated by national governments.
Ultimately, this will allow you to use those things that you have PAID for like services you've subscribed to or creative media you have PAID for or home grown content that you created yourself.
This is something that will allow you to use your own property.
You have to be a real moron to equate it with taxes.
> Let me know when I can slap a desktop class processor in my Nexus10
Well that's what you get for using lame hardware and trying to pretend that it's anything but a bad joke.
ARM hardware sucks. Plenty of us will happily point out this fact given any opportunity. You don't even need to use the most extreme examples to demonstrate this either.
"Mobile" devices are like a blast from the past (90s) when it comes to performance.
> I have never seen really stable frame-rates in video replay without hardware acceleration
Then you're not trying hard enough.
There is nothing particularly "grown up" about passively accepting that a situation is fucked up.
Nor is there anything particularly "adult" about ignoring the vast bulk of the evidence in order to try and fixate on a vanishingly small set of corner cases.
Policies need to be judged by their results in aggregate. This is especially true for patents because this stuff doesn't represent any actual natural rights or any actual property. This is supposed to be about promoting progress.
The few good ones aren't good enough to make up for the bad ones. There is no imperative to put up with ANY of them if the system as a whole is not beneficial.
So what you are saying is that you are a weasel and a sleaze.
Microsoft doesn't have to submit it's FAT related patents for "special treatment" because they have already been a dominant force in the industry perhaps for LONGER THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALIVE.
Microsoft doesn't have to "abuse FRAND" because it can abuse it's well established (and confirmed by the courts) monopoly position.
> I hate Microsoft with every ounce of my being, but even I think you're full of shit here. Demanding large royalties for standards-essential patents on a small part of a large product is the road to hell for the technology industry.
Yeah, and Microsoft is the worst offender here. They certainly don't deserve any sympathy in this case.
Although just as the patent system is broken, so too is the system for creating and enforcing national or industry standards. It's no less corrupt than anything else in business these days.
The entire notion of a "standards essential patent" is obscene.
It's kind of like a Rolex but in reverse.
> Tell me when the last Israeli-Syrian war was again?
The last one never really ended.
The only one of Israels neighbors that ever actually formally declared an end to hostilities is Egypt.
Carter gets lots of "street cred" for being the guy that brokered that treaty. You remember Carter? He still wanders around the world building houses for poor people and making speeches at national monuments.
Hardly comparable to a war that ended 150 years ago.
The significance of 9/11 (for the jihadists) likely dates back to a failed Muslim invasion of Europe in 1683.
If you think this is just about the US, you're just kidding yourself.
> You don't need a PhD in math to teach 10th grade geometry. I'm not in the education mix, but I doubt that's our problem.
Nobody is talking about a PhD. We're talking about COMPETENCE and you are trying to throw out the notion of a PhD as a red herring.
It should not take a PhD. Although an overqualified teacher is likely going to be the only one that can manage. There is a wide skill gap driven by general anti-intellectualism in this country. Teachers suffer from it as much as anyone else (perhaps more so).
Your own remarks are a manifestation of that anti-intellectualism.
Forget about Gen Y geeks trying to get along with their older counterparts in the IT department. I see this kind of inappropriate informality from TEACHERS in school related communications.
This is nonsense from someone who's probably a member of the 1% with some sort of white liberal guilt. I would be shocked if it situation was ever any different than it is now. I would expect the wealthy to give their children the best possible advantage. I would never expect that there was ever a time when the children of the genuinely wealthy DID NOT attend private schools quite apart from the public education system.
Anything else seems extremely absurd.
>>>There's so much bullshit in your post that I don't know where to start replying:
>>>
>>You clearly and your mother clearly holds the children and parents in contempt.
>>
> I honestly don't know how you got that from reading the grandparent post.
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow but it's all laid out as plain as day in the original post. If this were some reading comprehension exercise, you would get a big fat F.
"Professional educators" in public schools have an inflated view of themselves, contempt for everyone else, and a serious lack of accountability and it shows.
This isn't an area where you can really BS anyone. Everyone remembers their own experiences both as students and as parents. We all have first hand knowledge. There are no great secrets here. You can't hide anything.
You can perhaps discount a single anecdote but not an entire tsunami of them.
In some countries, the concept of "no child left behind" really means that. The ENTIRE class stays on the subject until EVERYONE in the class understands the material. This is a much more meaningful notion of "no child left behind" than the similarly named law in the US.
In the US, even a class of "gifted" students may need to be tutored at home because the teacher paid by the state didn't bother to do her job.
Plus this idiot doesn't seem to be acknowleding the fact that public education is already highly segmented. White flight (by all races) is driven by a desire to escape from urban school districts where many of the students are only going to drag your kids down.
Most people that have any interest in the education of their child already isolate their children in other ways. If they don't flee to the suburbs then they seek out magnate schools.
This fixation on private schools seems like a wierd liberal fetish that doesn't have any real relation to reality.
> The idea is that you're rewarding the child for putting in effort
Then reward effort directly. Possibly even give it extra weight in circumstances when you want to encourage a particular person to improve their achievement level.
Rewarding mediocrity in general is not that.