If the price of your product is too high I will either go to the next guy who also sells the product at a lower price, or start selling it myself at a reasonable rate. The consumer, however, does not have that luxury when it comes to intellectual property.
That's the problem with the patent system. The can ask a zillion jillion dollars and when they don't get it they can just halt hard drive sales, leaving us, the consumer, without hard drives until the hard drive manufacturers can reinvent a, most likely inferior, method to achieve the same results.
Yes, I think all the hype behind the iPhone cracking is the perfect example of this. Apple creates what seems to be a great idea, the multi-touch interface, but makes a poor product around it because you cannot install your own software on the device. Theoretically someone else should come along and build an iPhone-like device that does allow you to install your own software. Problem is that it cannot happen because of the multi-touch patents Apple has.
but doesn't preclude features which you clearly desire?
In this case BMW has a patent on an advanced steering wheel that makes driving significantly safer and enjoyable; a must have for all new car buyers. But because of the patent you can't just go buy a run of a mill automobile that has the advanced steering wheel and all the other features one would expect from a modern automobile. Therefore buying the BMW and hacking the ECU is the only way to acquire the automobile one desires.
Safari uses the feed:// "protocol" for RSS/Atom feeds, even though it's still really just HTTP under the hood. It allows you to enter, for example, feed://slashdot.org and it will automatically find the appropriate feed for the site instead of having to type: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot.
If you had municipal wifi in place you could use the network to enable the kids to learn without the need for expensive classrooms. The desire to maintain the status quo instead of looking forward to where we could be in the future is what is holding back municipal wifi.
Assuming that this Exchange server does eventually receive email sent from outside, there is always a possibility that a malformed message could compromise your server. If it does not, it doesn't do you much good as a mail server.
I haven't used Office for OS X, so I'm genuinely curious as to why the print to PDF feature that is available in virtually every OS X application does not work? Not to mention that Quartz based applications (which includes Office, apparently) are stored in PDF format before they hit your screen. It would be impossible to use Office for OS X without PDF support.
For these users OOo offers all the functionality they need, right now.
But for those users, both OOo and Office are free (at least as far as they are concerned). Given that, why bother with OOo when you are already familiar with Office?
Lightning will knock out the signal, but other forms of severe weather don't seem to have much effect. These days it's lucky if the power stays on through any given storm, so whether or not the signal is obtainable is mostly irrelevant. Unless you have some kind of backup power, of course.
The food supply was already well on it's way to destroying itself. You can't keep a farm going when corn is only worth $2 a bushel. The correction was going to happen with or without ethanol, ethanol just made it a whole lot easier for everyone. Unless you mean that the US flooding the rest of the world with their heavily subsidized food is destroying the food supply, then I would agree.
Who is defending drunk drivers? The point was that driving while sleep deprived is just as dangerous, unethical, and pathetic as driving while drunk. So why are there no laws to stop people from driving under those conditions? It is just as reasonable as the current drunk driving laws.
Here in Ontario, the government states that your first offense of drinking and driving will cost you almost $20,000 by the time it's all said and done. I don't know about you, but the loss of $20,000 is enough to ruin the lives of some people.
Surely those sleeping behind the wheel are more likely to be involved in fatal car accidents than those who are driving under the influence? Yet I haven't seen any roadside checks for sleep depravation. There are no laws, at least in this jurisdiction, that require me to have at least eight hours of sleep before getting behind the wheel. Should something happen while sleep deprived you might get a careless driving charge. But if careless driving is good enough for driving under the influence of sleep deprivation, why isn't it good enough for driving under the influence of alcohol?
So I could open a store where I will murder anyone who willfully enters my private property. It's okay because they entered my property under their own free will, right?
Wait, so you're saying that if the deceased really did just overdose on his own LSD that he put on his own cereal, the first suspect is going to get charged with the crime of murder because drugs are illegal and there is no way the victim could have used the drugs under his own free will?
You seem to be missing the point of the GPL. The GPL exists to ensure that the end user always has the code available to make changes to the software as he or she sees fit. If the software is released under a BSD-style license, there is no guarantee that the source code will be available for the binary that you are using.
I tend to agree. The truly gifted will be always learning beyond the confines of the traditional classroom anyway. They don't need school in the same way a "mediocre" student does.
But the laws exist to maintain the expectations of a society. If there are laws that are in direct contrast to the view of the society, what is the point of the law? You must remember that if a percentage of the population speeding, it does not mean that society itself speeds, so to speak.
Slashdot Mirror
If the price of your product is too high I will either go to the next guy who also sells the product at a lower price, or start selling it myself at a reasonable rate. The consumer, however, does not have that luxury when it comes to intellectual property.
That's the problem with the patent system. The can ask a zillion jillion dollars and when they don't get it they can just halt hard drive sales, leaving us, the consumer, without hard drives until the hard drive manufacturers can reinvent a, most likely inferior, method to achieve the same results.
Yes, I think all the hype behind the iPhone cracking is the perfect example of this. Apple creates what seems to be a great idea, the multi-touch interface, but makes a poor product around it because you cannot install your own software on the device. Theoretically someone else should come along and build an iPhone-like device that does allow you to install your own software. Problem is that it cannot happen because of the multi-touch patents Apple has.
Windows is only cheaper if your time is cheaper.
In this case BMW has a patent on an advanced steering wheel that makes driving significantly safer and enjoyable; a must have for all new car buyers. But because of the patent you can't just go buy a run of a mill automobile that has the advanced steering wheel and all the other features one would expect from a modern automobile. Therefore buying the BMW and hacking the ECU is the only way to acquire the automobile one desires.
Safari uses the feed:// "protocol" for RSS/Atom feeds, even though it's still really just HTTP under the hood. It allows you to enter, for example, feed://slashdot.org and it will automatically find the appropriate feed for the site instead of having to type: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot.
For me there is no sponsored link and Google Maps is the first result. Mapquest is second. Yahoo finally shows up third.
If you had municipal wifi in place you could use the network to enable the kids to learn without the need for expensive classrooms. The desire to maintain the status quo instead of looking forward to where we could be in the future is what is holding back municipal wifi.
Assuming that this Exchange server does eventually receive email sent from outside, there is always a possibility that a malformed message could compromise your server. If it does not, it doesn't do you much good as a mail server.
I haven't used Office for OS X, so I'm genuinely curious as to why the print to PDF feature that is available in virtually every OS X application does not work? Not to mention that Quartz based applications (which includes Office, apparently) are stored in PDF format before they hit your screen. It would be impossible to use Office for OS X without PDF support.
But for those users, both OOo and Office are free (at least as far as they are concerned). Given that, why bother with OOo when you are already familiar with Office?
Lightning will knock out the signal, but other forms of severe weather don't seem to have much effect. These days it's lucky if the power stays on through any given storm, so whether or not the signal is obtainable is mostly irrelevant. Unless you have some kind of backup power, of course.
You might want to look a little closer. The Signal vs Noise blog is powered by Ruby on Rails: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/37-the-newish-signal-vs-noise
You are if you distribute a binary version with your modifications.
The food supply was already well on it's way to destroying itself. You can't keep a farm going when corn is only worth $2 a bushel. The correction was going to happen with or without ethanol, ethanol just made it a whole lot easier for everyone. Unless you mean that the US flooding the rest of the world with their heavily subsidized food is destroying the food supply, then I would agree.
Who is defending drunk drivers? The point was that driving while sleep deprived is just as dangerous, unethical, and pathetic as driving while drunk. So why are there no laws to stop people from driving under those conditions? It is just as reasonable as the current drunk driving laws.
Here in Ontario, the government states that your first offense of drinking and driving will cost you almost $20,000 by the time it's all said and done. I don't know about you, but the loss of $20,000 is enough to ruin the lives of some people.
Surely those sleeping behind the wheel are more likely to be involved in fatal car accidents than those who are driving under the influence? Yet I haven't seen any roadside checks for sleep depravation. There are no laws, at least in this jurisdiction, that require me to have at least eight hours of sleep before getting behind the wheel. Should something happen while sleep deprived you might get a careless driving charge. But if careless driving is good enough for driving under the influence of sleep deprivation, why isn't it good enough for driving under the influence of alcohol?
So I could open a store where I will murder anyone who willfully enters my private property. It's okay because they entered my property under their own free will, right?
Wait, so you're saying that if the deceased really did just overdose on his own LSD that he put on his own cereal, the first suspect is going to get charged with the crime of murder because drugs are illegal and there is no way the victim could have used the drugs under his own free will?
You seem to be missing the point of the GPL. The GPL exists to ensure that the end user always has the code available to make changes to the software as he or she sees fit. If the software is released under a BSD-style license, there is no guarantee that the source code will be available for the binary that you are using.
How does that differ from the current state of affairs? He still might like LSD on his cereal in the morning, even as an illegal substance.
I tend to agree. The truly gifted will be always learning beyond the confines of the traditional classroom anyway. They don't need school in the same way a "mediocre" student does.
But the laws exist to maintain the expectations of a society. If there are laws that are in direct contrast to the view of the society, what is the point of the law? You must remember that if a percentage of the population speeding, it does not mean that society itself speeds, so to speak.