> I have an iPad, and the only apps I've installed were Angry Birds (free version), and a bit more advanced calculator
That doesn't mean what you think it does. It actually means that you are even less married to PhoneOS than someone that might be motivated to jailbreak it. Jailbreakers are not "haters". They are people that like Apple products well enough to go to great lengths to continue using them rather than just using Android.
You are like a Windows user that can faked out by fvwm95.
First sale rights are not something that should depend on a statute to begin with. They should be a self-evident aspect of personal property right that are so taken for granted that they aren't explicitly stated anywhere.
> You can't tell me that the latest boy band single that comes out is your birthright.
Sure I can. That's the real purpose for copyright. The fact that you dishonestly cloud the issue by focusing on an example that's easy to deride does not really alter that fact.
The whole goal of the system is to enable "piracy". It's not intended to create a new form of "property".
The two propositions aren't mutually exclusive. File sharing could still be a crime. It could just have a punishment to actually fit the offense. The real problem here is how extremely cruel and unusual the "punishment" is.
If she was getting hit for an amount comparable to shoplifting, this verdict wouldn't seem like such a crime.
Tort reform for the rich, crime and punishment for the poor.
Unless there is a contract negotiation, there is no contract.
Therefore it is a personal property sale. Pretending that personal property is an implied contract is precisely the sort of NONSENSE that this article is complaining about. It's just a way for powerful corporations to subvert your property rights and abuse all of us.
It's high time that citizens started pushing back.
Importing the same mediocre talent from India is not going to solve the problem. If the supply of talent in the US is crap, then you need to encourage the development of talent and stop broadcasting to the world that you want to treat us all like sh*t.
You are just trying to push the bogus idea that cheaper is better. Age is an entirely separate issue apart from whether or not the relevant talent is "cheap". Even in the industries where "young" actually matters, there are still requirements for people to actually be competent.
Experience even matters in the Army. That's why they train everyone. They don't just take a warm young body off of the street and throw it into a warzone.
They don't because that would get experienced officers and NCOs kill.
> Missing services patches can leave one vulnerable to being hacked.
The same kinds of practices that make 10 year uptimes for Unix unremarkable also contribute to security being far less problematic even in the absence of constant patching.
> If you work out an hour a week, tops, you're not in shape. You're probably getting stronger, but you're not in shape.
If you can run for 20 minutes at a time and do that 3 times a week then you are indeed in shape. You don't have to be excessive about this stuff. Once you get beyond the basic government guidelines, there are quickly diminishing returns for going overboard.
The problem with a gym is that it is probably like a commute. Like any commute, it's not just the time you spend "working" but all of the required overhead before and after.
This is why onsite gyms are so cool.
Alternatively, you could buy yourself a machine or two and be pretty much set.
Not only can you save a lot of time doing this, you can save quite a bit of money too. Plus you can work out whenever the mood strikes or you've got a few spare moments.
Plus you can cater the environment to yourself. Set up a MythTV frontend or a Roku in your workout area.
You can "be at home watching TV" and workout at the same time.
Anything hard looks easy when compared to impossible.
Macs are fine so long as you stay on the guided tour. If you are the least bit creative with how you use technology, you will likely find that things aren't so easy.
> You have to reboot because the files are in use. What happens to shared libraries that are in use when you update them on Linux?
Why would you EVER modify an in use library?
If anything, you would get a NEW version.
The management of system software for critical production systems is not exactly a new thing. There's really no excuse for WinDOS to keep screwing it up in 2013.
Unless you've got a favorite Mac-only application you can quickly mention by name, you probably don't really have a good reason with putting up with Apple products.
It's an inferior platform for paying for stuff.
Less open. Less stuff to buy.
Combine the redheaded stepchild aspects of Linux with the "justify yourself" mentality of a walled garden.
The key with Linux is that it is freely redistributable. Instead of having all of those tweaks and fixes spread to the four winds, you can bring them all together and package them up. You can distribute that without fear of being sued or imprisoned.
This has always been the case but is just more obvious with Microsoft's variation on Unity.
It's plenty annoying. Actual Windows users will freely admit to it.
The more dedicated Lemmings just want to pretend that Microsoft screwed the pooch.
If WinDOS weren't king of legacy apps, you would see a mass exodus. Even despite, you might see a lot of people cling to the previous version as long as they can (like they did with Vista).
Actually, the Gnome developers did make the new version incompatible with the old version. That's why there's even a MATE or Cinnamon project to begin with.
Otherwise we could all have just kept using the old binaries.
I have a Mini right here that will do fine with the latest Ubuntu and will do fine with Win7 (and probably Win8) too. Yet it is now officially unsupported by Apple.
Apple feeds off of a userbase dominated by conspicuous consumers that look down on anything that isn't new and wasteful. That's reflected in it's products and how it treats users.
The single biggest problem with being a MacOS user is putting up with Macs. They have been overpriced and under spec'ed since the 68K days.
They are also now getting more standards hostile with each passing year (speaking of SSDs).
> If you don't take anything new from them, they won't take anything away from you. > > You don't have to upgrade anything, and you won't lose anything.
Except running anything current.
This is a common "support" issue for any commercial OS. It's not just limited to Macs.
Saying that you can treat your main desktop system like a mosquito trapped in amber is hardly very compelling.
Certain interesting financial transactions have been reported on for quite some time. This predates both Obama and Bush II. The only thing new here is perhaps the idea that people are actually looking at the information we've been collecting pretty much forever.
You're pretty tardy if you are trying to get your panties in a bunch over this situation.
Yeah, if they collect it they are going to data mine it sooner or later. That's pretty obvious. That's why you don't create the data to begin with.
Horse left the barn and the barn burned down there a long time ago.
Although I wouldn't mind getting back the $500 and $1000 bills what with inflation being what it is.
That's about how long it took for Microsoft to get their act together and catch up to what X had from the beginning. Now you twits are going to replicate that and set the Linux desktop back 20 years.
That's what happens when you first ignore something and then have to retrofit it.
It makes things unnecessarily painful when compared to just paying attention to that requirement to begin with.
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> I have an iPad, and the only apps I've installed were Angry Birds (free version), and a bit more advanced calculator
That doesn't mean what you think it does. It actually means that you are even less married to PhoneOS than someone that might be motivated to jailbreak it. Jailbreakers are not "haters". They are people that like Apple products well enough to go to great lengths to continue using them rather than just using Android.
You are like a Windows user that can faked out by fvwm95.
First sale rights are not something that should depend on a statute to begin with. They should be a self-evident aspect of personal property right that are so taken for granted that they aren't explicitly stated anywhere.
Those laws were created by people chaffing against the abuses of what would most likely be compared to one of our modern multinational corporations.
The notion of corporation as person would likely appall the whole lot of them regardless of political faction.
> You can't tell me that the latest boy band single that comes out is your birthright.
Sure I can. That's the real purpose for copyright. The fact that you dishonestly cloud the issue by focusing on an example that's easy to deride does not really alter that fact.
The whole goal of the system is to enable "piracy". It's not intended to create a new form of "property".
The two propositions aren't mutually exclusive. File sharing could still be a crime. It could just have a punishment to actually fit the offense. The real problem here is how extremely cruel and unusual the "punishment" is.
If she was getting hit for an amount comparable to shoplifting, this verdict wouldn't seem like such a crime.
Tort reform for the rich, crime and punishment for the poor.
Nope.
Unless there is a contract negotiation, there is no contract.
Therefore it is a personal property sale. Pretending that personal property is an implied contract is precisely the sort of NONSENSE that this article is complaining about. It's just a way for powerful corporations to subvert your property rights and abuse all of us.
It's high time that citizens started pushing back.
Importing the same mediocre talent from India is not going to solve the problem. If the supply of talent in the US is crap, then you need to encourage the development of talent and stop broadcasting to the world that you want to treat us all like sh*t.
You are just trying to push the bogus idea that cheaper is better. Age is an entirely separate issue apart from whether or not the relevant talent is "cheap". Even in the industries where "young" actually matters, there are still requirements for people to actually be competent.
Experience even matters in the Army. That's why they train everyone. They don't just take a warm young body off of the street and throw it into a warzone.
They don't because that would get experienced officers and NCOs kill.
> Missing services patches can leave one vulnerable to being hacked.
The same kinds of practices that make 10 year uptimes for Unix unremarkable also contribute to security being far less problematic even in the absence of constant patching.
Why would "missing patches" be of concern for a Unix machine?
That sounds like the sort of thing a WinDOS consumer would need to be fixated on, not an "educated sysadmin".
He said "soup for lunch". He didn't say that he was on the Warsaw Ghetto diet.
Plus "soup" could mean any number of things including meat, cheese, or cream.
> If you work out an hour a week, tops, you're not in shape. You're probably getting stronger, but you're not in shape.
If you can run for 20 minutes at a time and do that 3 times a week then you are indeed in shape. You don't have to be excessive about this stuff. Once you get beyond the basic government guidelines, there are quickly diminishing returns for going overboard.
The problem with a gym is that it is probably like a commute. Like any commute, it's not just the time you spend "working" but all of the required overhead before and after.
This is why onsite gyms are so cool.
Alternatively, you could buy yourself a machine or two and be pretty much set.
Not only can you save a lot of time doing this, you can save quite a bit of money too. Plus you can work out whenever the mood strikes or you've got a few spare moments.
Plus you can cater the environment to yourself. Set up a MythTV frontend or a Roku in your workout area.
You can "be at home watching TV" and workout at the same time.
You know what that sounds like?
LINUX
People are just doing to Google what Google is doing to the community.
If ad infested versions of basic freeware system utilities become less prevalent then that would not be such a tragedy really.
Anything hard looks easy when compared to impossible.
Macs are fine so long as you stay on the guided tour. If you are the least bit creative with how you use technology, you will likely find that things aren't so easy.
No. He's just a lame troll repeating someone else's outdated FUD.
I originally switched to Ubuntu in 2006 because it "just worked" on a random company laptop.
I've never had problems with an Ubuntu upgrade.
Recently had a MacOS upgrade screw the pooch though.
> You have to reboot because the files are in use. What happens to shared libraries that are in use when you update them on Linux?
Why would you EVER modify an in use library?
If anything, you would get a NEW version.
The management of system software for critical production systems is not exactly a new thing. There's really no excuse for WinDOS to keep screwing it up in 2013.
Unless you've got a favorite Mac-only application you can quickly mention by name, you probably don't really have a good reason with putting up with Apple products.
It's an inferior platform for paying for stuff.
Less open. Less stuff to buy.
Combine the redheaded stepchild aspects of Linux with the "justify yourself" mentality of a walled garden.
The key with Linux is that it is freely redistributable. Instead of having all of those tweaks and fixes spread to the four winds, you can bring them all together and package them up. You can distribute that without fear of being sued or imprisoned.
This has always been the case but is just more obvious with Microsoft's variation on Unity.
It's plenty annoying. Actual Windows users will freely admit to it.
The more dedicated Lemmings just want to pretend that Microsoft screwed the pooch.
If WinDOS weren't king of legacy apps, you would see a mass exodus. Even despite, you might see a lot of people cling to the previous version as long as they can (like they did with Vista).
Actually, the Gnome developers did make the new version incompatible with the old version. That's why there's even a MATE or Cinnamon project to begin with.
Otherwise we could all have just kept using the old binaries.
I have a Mini right here that will do fine with the latest Ubuntu and will do fine with Win7 (and probably Win8) too. Yet it is now officially unsupported by Apple.
Apple feeds off of a userbase dominated by conspicuous consumers that look down on anything that isn't new and wasteful. That's reflected in it's products and how it treats users.
The single biggest problem with being a MacOS user is putting up with Macs. They have been overpriced and under spec'ed since the 68K days.
They are also now getting more standards hostile with each passing year (speaking of SSDs).
> If you don't take anything new from them, they won't take anything away from you.
>
> You don't have to upgrade anything, and you won't lose anything.
Except running anything current.
This is a common "support" issue for any commercial OS. It's not just limited to Macs.
Saying that you can treat your main desktop system like a mosquito trapped in amber is hardly very compelling.
You can gouge your eyes out too.
Certain interesting financial transactions have been reported on for quite some time. This predates both Obama and Bush II. The only thing new here is perhaps the idea that people are actually looking at the information we've been collecting pretty much forever.
You're pretty tardy if you are trying to get your panties in a bunch over this situation.
Yeah, if they collect it they are going to data mine it sooner or later. That's pretty obvious. That's why you don't create the data to begin with.
Horse left the barn and the barn burned down there a long time ago.
Although I wouldn't mind getting back the $500 and $1000 bills what with inflation being what it is.
...you mean 20 years later.
That's about how long it took for Microsoft to get their act together and catch up to what X had from the beginning. Now you twits are going to replicate that and set the Linux desktop back 20 years.
That's what happens when you first ignore something and then have to retrofit it.
It makes things unnecessarily painful when compared to just paying attention to that requirement to begin with.