Excellent, you exercised your free speech to demonstrate how inarticulate you actually are. That's a very important right that many people like to exercise. Bully on you.
Whining may well be justified (and I dispute that, but not here), but that doesn't nudge over the line into a positive action. Whiners never cause change, they just annoy the people around them and later take credit for something they didn't do at all.
You're proud of downloading music? I pity you. I can only imagine the emptiness of existence that leads to taking pride in such a mundane and ridiculous thing.
The basic problem with statements like that are that "the people" are always defined by the speaker to mean "people who agree with me" and are generally exclusive to the point of simply defining another special interest. No one person's opinion can reasonably claim to represent everyone. Just a fact of human nature.
(a right you would normally not have due to copyright law)
Just a nitpick - it's a right you wouldn't normally have due to a copyright holder not granting that right. The copyright law itself effectively says the copyright holder can determine the distribution rights. The GPL relies on this fact to work. Without that protection, the GPL would have no teeth at all.
The only problem with that is the impossibility of generalization over so many probably outcomes. The basic rights in the US are written in a general manner, which makes them subject to ever-changing interpretations, basically on the whims of the judge reading them at the time. Specificity is the attempt to cure that.
There is no good answer in any system designed to cover so many eventualities.
The SDK is free. It costs $99 to enroll in the developer program that issues your certificate and allows you to install apps on the iPhone. There is a distinction.
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Excellent, you exercised your free speech to demonstrate how inarticulate you actually are. That's a very important right that many people like to exercise. Bully on you.
Whining may well be justified (and I dispute that, but not here), but that doesn't nudge over the line into a positive action. Whiners never cause change, they just annoy the people around them and later take credit for something they didn't do at all.
Now that you put it that way, I realize just how horrible Apple really is!
You'd be amazed how off-base the Slashdot impression of America is.
Do you lie in wait for an opportunity, no matter how tenuous, to go on this rant?
You're proud of downloading music? I pity you. I can only imagine the emptiness of existence that leads to taking pride in such a mundane and ridiculous thing.
The word 'junk' is even more subjective than 'trivial' in this case. You are not the arbiter of human interest.
So basically, you know the one true way, anyone who disagrees with you is basically wrong, and this is regarding how to be a scientist?
Someone needs to take a step back and realize he isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
But if you don't like the rules on my property, why is it my responsibility to cater to your whims?
The basic problem with statements like that are that "the people" are always defined by the speaker to mean "people who agree with me" and are generally exclusive to the point of simply defining another special interest. No one person's opinion can reasonably claim to represent everyone. Just a fact of human nature.
More appropriately, what the hell is a "day" in the context of a formless void?
If you want to be that abstract about things, vision is just a lighting model.
Not unless they use that power to injure you.
(a right you would normally not have due to copyright law)
Just a nitpick - it's a right you wouldn't normally have due to a copyright holder not granting that right. The copyright law itself effectively says the copyright holder can determine the distribution rights. The GPL relies on this fact to work. Without that protection, the GPL would have no teeth at all.
Who says the cost has to become insignificant? You make an utterly invalid assumption there.
Just for kicks, I'll spin it the other way:
Demand For Silverlight On The Rise
Then I have a stupid and possibly obvious question for you: what are you doing on Slashdot?
The only problem with that is the impossibility of generalization over so many probably outcomes. The basic rights in the US are written in a general manner, which makes them subject to ever-changing interpretations, basically on the whims of the judge reading them at the time. Specificity is the attempt to cure that.
There is no good answer in any system designed to cover so many eventualities.
If you can't handle paying 99 bucks, what the hell are you doing with an iPhone?
You're not thinking in terms of the accelerometer, the camera, and the vibration function.
The SDK is free. It costs $99 to enroll in the developer program that issues your certificate and allows you to install apps on the iPhone. There is a distinction.
I don't think it's censorship so much as people knowing enough to ignore crazy.
Which implies when people ignore you, then aren't censoring you either.
Your comment confirms my fear that reading comprehension on Slashdot is no better than the rest of the web.
And a choice of presidential candidates just one behind the US as well.
Yes, of course the problem is that Apple is too perfect.
I should have seen that answer coming.