Android fanboys never had a solid reason to claim that Android is more open than iPhone. Sure, it runs (modified) Linux. But that doesn't imply openness.
That's exactly my first thought. But then I weighed the loss in revenues for standing up to china against the gain they would get from this patent. The loss is heavier and hence the hypothesis fails.
open source rescues formats, protocols, specifications and standards.
Not quite true. At most, theoretically true. The most popular open-source file-systems, Ext2 and Ext3 don't have official specification of the on-disk data structures. Many drivers that are part of mainline Linux kernel have code based on closed specs. RedHat's popular open-source clustering file-system, GFS doesn't have public specs.
I'm from India. Assuming what you are saying is correct, the output implies that google.cn doesn't have a mirror in China, because geographically India is closer to China than to US.
However, the concept that your example is talking about is Copyright, which is just one kind of IP. I don't think the Costa Rican government (or any other government, for that matter) would have a problem with that. The problem here is really about the other kind - the Patents. Many governments across the world are unwilling or reluctant to extend US patent laws into their own countries, for atleast three reasons. Firstly, patents are a stupid concept. They feel meaningful to many of us only because they have been around for quite some time. Secondly, patents encourage monopolies. Thirdly, the US's patent system is severely broken. I believe that this opposition from Costa Rica is towards patents.
I suppose Microsoft can offer a simple explanation: "Our servers and other internal infrastructure are so vulnerable that they have been hacked and being used as remote-controlled botnets."
An American student asked him what he thought about Tienanmen. At first we thought he didn't understand what we were asking, but then it became clear - he'd never heard of this event. The government had successfully kept it from him.
Have you considered the possibility that the event never happened or has been hugely exaggerated? Why would you? You are already so prejudiced.
I admit I didn't know the exact meaning of plummet when I posted it. Thanks for the info.
Now there's another interesting idea. It's possible that the fall is quick in comparison to the sun's or earth's age, while still being many orders of magnitude longer than human lifetime.
In the meantime, please read the summary again. It says Google continues to return accurate results. Check whether this fits consistently into your opinion about supposed censorship in India.
If the "Western Media" was a monolithic propaganda and manipulation machine, there wouldn't be a Rolling Stone article about the manipulation for the other poster to link to.
You are now giving a straw man argument. Who said western media is a monolithic propaganda and manipulation machine?
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Android fanboys never had a solid reason to claim that Android is more open than iPhone. Sure, it runs (modified) Linux. But that doesn't imply openness.
Firefox supports the video tag. The h.264 support can be added by installing mplayer browser plugin or xine browser plugin.
Javadoc is the best example.
We'd already worked that out from the combination of being so often wrong, but yet so totally confident in your pontifications.
I'm certainly more confident than cowards like you. Now give me an instance where you think I was wrong.
That's exactly my first thought. But then I weighed the loss in revenues for standing up to china against the gain they would get from this patent. The loss is heavier and hence the hypothesis fails.
Also geographic closeness doesn't nessacerally imply good network connections between two points.
That explains it.
open source rescues formats, protocols, specifications and standards.
Not quite true. At most, theoretically true. The most popular open-source file-systems, Ext2 and Ext3 don't have official specification of the on-disk data structures. Many drivers that are part of mainline Linux kernel have code based on closed specs. RedHat's popular open-source clustering file-system, GFS doesn't have public specs.
I'm from India. Assuming what you are saying is correct, the output implies that google.cn doesn't have a mirror in China, because geographically India is closer to China than to US.
I don't know if this is a new finding. I've noticed this today:
rms@susebox:~> geoiplookup www.google.cn
GeoIP Country Edition: US, United States
I expected it to be hosted in China.
Because it grants monopoly to whoever invents first, even if the other inventers did it independently.
I agree that IP is a scam.
However, the concept that your example is talking about is Copyright, which is just one kind of IP. I don't think the Costa Rican government (or any other government, for that matter) would have a problem with that. The problem here is really about the other kind - the Patents. Many governments across the world are unwilling or reluctant to extend US patent laws into their own countries, for atleast three reasons. Firstly, patents are a stupid concept. They feel meaningful to many of us only because they have been around for quite some time. Secondly, patents encourage monopolies. Thirdly, the US's patent system is severely broken. I believe that this opposition from Costa Rica is towards patents.
I suppose Microsoft can offer a simple explanation: "Our servers and other internal infrastructure are so vulnerable that they have been hacked and being used as remote-controlled botnets."
An American student asked him what he thought about Tienanmen. At first we thought he didn't understand what we were asking, but then it became clear - he'd never heard of this event. The government had successfully kept it from him.
Have you considered the possibility that the event never happened or has been hugely exaggerated? Why would you? You are already so prejudiced.
I admit I didn't know the exact meaning of plummet when I posted it. Thanks for the info.
Now there's another interesting idea. It's possible that the fall is quick in comparison to the sun's or earth's age, while still being many orders of magnitude longer than human lifetime.
Or maybe we ARE plummeting into sun, but at a rate that is too slow to be observable.
I know this is /. and bashing China gives you sweet free karma
I've observed that bashing Iran gives you sweeter Karma.
In the meantime, please read the summary again. It says Google continues to return accurate results. Check whether this fits consistently into your opinion about supposed censorship in India.
If the "Western Media" was a monolithic propaganda and manipulation machine, there wouldn't be a Rolling Stone article about the manipulation for the other poster to link to.
You are now giving a straw man argument. Who said western media is a monolithic propaganda and manipulation machine?
I'm probably a moron for hoping that it is humanly possible to open eyes after 60+ years of manipulation. The fact that people of a democratic nation consented to god-knows-how-many number of wars, is alone sufficient to prove that those people have been manipulated. However, since you called me a moron, let a Nobel Laureate talk to you. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/Journalist_Mars.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/MediaControl_excerpts.html
OK. Try these:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360674.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perception_management
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pretext_for_War
What sort of media do you think Rolling Stone is?
The opposite of BBC and NYTimes.
Western media would have magnified it 10 times and portrayed the country as having a tyrannous dictatorship. Before modding this post, make yourself aware of the extent of success in ongoing propaganda and manipulation.
cygwin SUCKS. Cygwin tools' functionality is a small subset of GNU utilities. MingW, OTOH, is a complete port of GNU to Windows.
The people who run Slashdot are not religious.
I've been waiting for something like this.