It really doesnt matter if its a US corporation. If its operating in Germany, then its operations in germany are under German juristiction no ifs no buts.
We've had a few instances here in australia where a US court "overrules" an australian one from having juristiction. The australian court, naturally, systematically ignores it. Those clauses of "All disagreements must be heard in x state" you see in american contracts have no validity here. To quote a lawyer friend, "Us lawyers dont actually get to invent laws or nullify them with our contracts, no matter how clever we think we are".
How is this insightful? It's blatantly ignorant of US Contract Law.
You sir, are full of it; first of all shadows/HDR issues (if there are any, this could just be stylised) have absolutely zero to do with Blender itself but with the renderer they were using. Second of all Blender being hard to use is a detestable myth and even between the people that think that way it's still universally accepted that once you learn the workflow Blender is one the most efficient and fast, if not the fastest, programs on the market to work with.
Colour me unimpressed by your erroneous arguments.
It's a she and you can catch her often on OSNews.com.
Patents are supposed to be a (time-limited) barrier to competition. They're supposed to be the way the inventor gets payed for his invention. Without patents there's little incentive to develop inventions into technologies --- technologies that would be quickly copied. People who don't understand this probably would really suck as businessmen.
The present patent system is a travesty, a farce, an outrage --- not much more than a license for lawyers to steal. But the answer to a broken patent system is a fixed patent system, not no patent system.
They don't understand it because they lack the talent, brains and imagination to make a living off of the patent and copyright systems.
Coming from someone incapable of acquiring either in producing something worth buying by consumers that makes no sense. No one capable of creative works worthy of copyrights and making a living or intellectual property worthy of patenting to make a living makes such a moronic proposition.
So, if Joe Engineer develops the next new thing in his garage, he has to physically make each item by hand or directly hire staff and tool a factory from scratch to organically grow a manufacturing business that may not have anything new to manufacture after the patent expires but may take the life of the patent before finally supplying the initial demand? Why can't Joe Engineer develop his widget and license manufacturing to a company that is already established and capable. For Joe there is less upfront risk, faster time to market, and he won't be left "holding the bag" once the patent expires.
Now, if Joe scribbles a block diagram on a napkin I could see the value of requiring Joe to initiate production (directly or through licensed manufacturers) before his patent can be enforced. Joe shouldn't have the luxury of sitting back and waiting for 6 or 7 years to pounce on a successful company that just so happened to utilize the method depicted in his block diagram, most likely not even considering the "invention" worthy of a patent due to obviousness.
This is slashdot. You're asking 99.9% of the people who know jack about actual Manufacturing and bringing a product to market to step back and realize their understanding of the Patent System is even less, including the Fed who are the last group of morons that anyone should listen to about innovation and patents.
I will add that if Zynga got off its ass and ported their games to HTML5/WebGL and/or used OpenCL via Adobe's Flash people would be glad they have a dedicated GPGPU as the current Zynga games are eating nearly 2GB of RAM and these games are dirt simple and shouldn't come close to the demands on CPU/RAM requirements that they current draw.
Intel's OpenCL is garbage and the industry knows it. OpenGL is just as hack-neyed.
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When I'm not on OS X my Linux boxes are happily testing and running KDE 4.8.2 and GNOME 3.4.2 from Debian. I look forward to 3.6 and especially the day I can modify the magnetic attraction to the upper left corner that takes control of my mouse when moving menu windows and I happen to miss. I also look forward to being able to not have my applications always launch and position themselves upper left (0,0) [relative to the menu top bar] of Gnome which often has me dealing with the mouse flying up and bringing out the hidden list of application options. I cannot effin' stand KDE's little widget approach--embarrassing relative to OS X, and it's Plasma puke all over the desktop environment so I reduce it's presence to the limit allowed.
The experience for both is different but grow on you. GNOME 2.x is overtly dated and always looked like an aborted version of the old Mac OS desktop. WindowMaker reminds me of how little people understand NeXTSTEP and what Keith Ohlfs and the Graphics Team at NeXT did to make it.
When Debian gets around to KDE 4.9.x I hope it's more refined because there are many areas [System Settings for example] that are just garbage, especially the toxic multimedia settings section
This is a developing concept with the potential of being a paradigm shift. Now days anything you want to do, there is a YouTube video. From baking bread, to understanding excel, to trying to figure out complex math concepts. Somebody charismatic among a multitude on mediocre has made a video or a tutorial.
We are comparing an old method of tuition with a new concept of online learning. There are elements of online learning that cannot duplicate face to face tuition, but the reverse is overwhelmingly on the side of online learning.
Some of the greatest innovators are self taught. Some of the most brilliant mathematicians/scientists are also self taught. How many more self taught brilliant minds will this produce ? How many more of the rest of us will not have access to knowledge there is no way we would have pursued under the "old" system ?
For every self-taught you have tens of thousands equally taught or greater. Sorry, but Newton came around once. Same with Einstein, Bohr, etc. They all had formal training.
How much interaction does big lecture classes at a traditional university have?? and what if differnt from on line then???
Also why pay the high traditional university price when you can get the same on line with DRV control?
Depends on how much of a coward one is to be too afraid to ask questions. Sorry, but having a few degrees at a major US university, nothing beats that interaction. If you don't think it is pertinent to ask your professor to work out the integral that you aren't seeing, then you're short changing yourself. Please spare me the on-line quality vs. University quality. They are night and day. Go get a Mechanical Engineering degree and discover how important it is being immersed in your field with groups of ME students working on projects. On line crap just doesn't cut it.
Thrun's AI class. Both are garbage. I'm speaking as a Mechanical Engineer and Computer Science degree'd with just a few credits short of a Mathematics B.S. and EE B.S. He's an awful professor. His book on AI is riddled with poor explanations, dull language and tons of grammatical errors. Nothing beats being there or if not directly with a butt in the lecture hall and at his office hours, at least via the Internet in real-time to watch his lectures. This is not the future of teaching.
I think Apple does give people access to their "own content" as much as they want.
Dude, are you smoking crack? OS X is based on an open source operating system that they then carved up and bolted on their own stuff, patented it, and threatened anyone who even looked at it sideways with a lawsuit. Then they built a walled garden around that so it's difficult to get applications anywhere but through them. Then they walled in those apps by making sure Apple had to approve each one individually, and double-walled it by making sure Apple got a cut of any content distributed by those applications.
Apple doesn't want you to own anything, even your own personal data. OS X is the only operating system I've used where there's no way to cancel or abort registration: You have to enter a name, address, and phone number to get to the login. It tries to phone home that information right away, even while lying to you on the interface by saying you don't have to register and leaving an icon on the screen for you to do it later... as if it didn't know it already phoned home.
No, Apple doesn't want to give you anything. They want to control all of it; like an amusement park. You're not allowed to bring in any outside food or beverage, and the only thing you can leave with is a few trinkets and a lot less of your money. If you think otherwise, you're lying to yourself.
How ironic that FreeBSD, BSD, NetBSD and Darwin all get along yet the Linux pricks bitch, moan and complain while painting a fantasy of the BSD Ecosystem and how Apple raped them over. Your ignorance is what people in the FreeBSD world already know--viral.
Well you're lying. Having worked tech support for Apple, specifically doing iPod/iPhone and iTunes support, I can assure you that an iPod is designed to not allow you to transfer music off of it. You can use itunes to transfer purchases back to your computer, but only things you have purchased from itunes and only to the computer your ipod/iphone is synced to.
In order to transfer music back you need a 3rd party program and what you get is music files with not song info attached so you have to hope that gracenote can find what song it is or you're stuck manually entering all the data on it. The songs file name isn't even correct.
I somehow doubt that your 7 year old is able to manage the neccessary steps to do more that the basic sync of purchased music, which is really not neccessary because of the iCloud implementation.
You sync your music back to iTunes and then take it out of the file system. It's UNIX. Having worked at NeXT and Apple in Engineering and Professional Services if you cannot manage to get music back off your iPod then you deserve not to work in the Support Team. Hell, the music information is held in PLIST files. They are straight XML files. If you cannot figure out how to get all the superfluous information that iTunes gathered for you please stop working with audio/video files.
And that's the problem with Isaacson's book. It's a piss poor portrayal of Steven P. Jobs due to its obsessive focus on the Macintosh days with nearly nothing of PIXAR or NeXT. Sorry, but having worked at the latter two we always thought the Mac days group were a bunch of whining douchebags.
By 1900 the US Population was: 76,094,000. The World Population was:1.656 Billion. Today we're over 310 Million the US and over 7 Billion world-wide. What's your point? Did you somehow expect the total number of patents to grow considerably slower because the world's population exploded.
Tesla innovated just fine. He died crazy and poor while lesser men made themselves the gatekeepers to his creations and robbed the masses blind, sure... but he still innovated. Well, invented... innovation is the dumb-grunt work, really... but the principle is the same.
Just because you're a slave doesn't mean you can't work.
Tesla was poor because he was too nice. The man let all his stock rights to Westinghouse be foregone to keep Westinghouse afloat. In hindsight, I doubt Tesla would be nice, today, and nor should anyone expect it of him or any one else.
Anyone who thinks NeXT and now Apple's Object Model is a POS is FOS. Sorry, but nothing in Linux is remotely as elegant, powerful and reusable. All everyone has been doing since 1994 is incorporating more and more ideas from NeXT and it started with Java [many of Java's architects came from NeXT].
Linux desktop share is growing faster than Mac OS X is, neither is growing at any impressive rate though, but it is almost 5 years ago now that Mac OS X overtook Linux on the desktop, and more than a few years since it was growing faster.
So either very old news or yes: Troll.
Growing from a few million is far easier to grow from than over 80 million. Ask Microsoft all about growth rates.
You can use macports or homebrew on OS X. Both have all of the key OSS packages, and the latter additionally allows to manage your own private packages. What else would you need? OS X is FreeBSD with a fancy UI (and Obj-C)... You can shell script the daylights out of your box all you want if that's your thing.
It's a helluva a lot more than just FreeBSD with a fancy UI, but whatever floats your boat on generalities, however false and misleading.
It comes with the system. It handles pretty much anything. It can even accommodate 3rd parties.
So in that respect there's really nothing comparable on a Mac. Just stuff that kind of sort of partially covers what apt-get does.
Being not-quite-comprehensive kind of defeats the entire point.
Having run Debian [typing on it] for over 12 years, APT-GET is nothing like the App Store. In fact, the App Store doesn't have dependency issues that puke out fairly often and force one to manipulate around the bonehead mistakes package owners forget to test against and thus send out other revisions of an App all because they screwed up the packaing. APT-GET is not the end-all-to-be all and neither is Aptitude [ncurses front end], nor DPKG and anything else.
Go make something "real" (a table, a building, a computer network, a toy or a television) and then realize that you have to make a new one every time you want to get paid again. That's how the REST of us make a living, by working continuously and saving our money, not by making a recording at the age of 18 and then being paid repeatedly for copies other people make for the next 50 years. Just because what you make is "creative" and non-tangible, doesn't make it worth any more that what the rest of us make.
Been there, done that numbnuts. Manual labor is simple. Any halfwit can do it, stoned or sober. That's why it's call blue collar work.
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It really doesnt matter if its a US corporation. If its operating in Germany, then its operations in germany are under German juristiction no ifs no buts.
We've had a few instances here in australia where a US court "overrules" an australian one from having juristiction. The australian court, naturally, systematically ignores it. Those clauses of "All disagreements must be heard in x state" you see in american contracts have no validity here. To quote a lawyer friend, "Us lawyers dont actually get to invent laws or nullify them with our contracts, no matter how clever we think we are".
How is this insightful? It's blatantly ignorant of US Contract Law.
You sir, are full of it; first of all shadows/HDR issues (if there are any, this could just be stylised) have absolutely zero to do with Blender itself but with the renderer they were using. Second of all Blender being hard to use is a detestable myth and even between the people that think that way it's still universally accepted that once you learn the workflow Blender is one the most efficient and fast, if not the fastest, programs on the market to work with.
Colour me unimpressed by your erroneous arguments.
It's a she and you can catch her often on OSNews.com.
Patents are supposed to be a (time-limited) barrier to competition. They're supposed to be the way the inventor gets payed for his invention. Without patents there's little incentive to develop inventions into technologies --- technologies that would be quickly copied. People who don't understand this probably would really suck as businessmen.
The present patent system is a travesty, a farce, an outrage --- not much more than a license for lawyers to steal. But the answer to a broken patent system is a fixed patent system, not no patent system.
They don't understand it because they lack the talent, brains and imagination to make a living off of the patent and copyright systems.
Why just patents? Copyright must go too.
Coming from someone incapable of acquiring either in producing something worth buying by consumers that makes no sense. No one capable of creative works worthy of copyrights and making a living or intellectual property worthy of patenting to make a living makes such a moronic proposition.
So, if Joe Engineer develops the next new thing in his garage, he has to physically make each item by hand or directly hire staff and tool a factory from scratch to organically grow a manufacturing business that may not have anything new to manufacture after the patent expires but may take the life of the patent before finally supplying the initial demand? Why can't Joe Engineer develop his widget and license manufacturing to a company that is already established and capable. For Joe there is less upfront risk, faster time to market, and he won't be left "holding the bag" once the patent expires.
Now, if Joe scribbles a block diagram on a napkin I could see the value of requiring Joe to initiate production (directly or through licensed manufacturers) before his patent can be enforced. Joe shouldn't have the luxury of sitting back and waiting for 6 or 7 years to pounce on a successful company that just so happened to utilize the method depicted in his block diagram, most likely not even considering the "invention" worthy of a patent due to obviousness.
This is slashdot. You're asking 99.9% of the people who know jack about actual Manufacturing and bringing a product to market to step back and realize their understanding of the Patent System is even less, including the Fed who are the last group of morons that anyone should listen to about innovation and patents.
I will add that if Zynga got off its ass and ported their games to HTML5/WebGL and/or used OpenCL via Adobe's Flash people would be glad they have a dedicated GPGPU as the current Zynga games are eating nearly 2GB of RAM and these games are dirt simple and shouldn't come close to the demands on CPU/RAM requirements that they current draw.
Intel's OpenCL is garbage and the industry knows it. OpenGL is just as hack-neyed.
When I'm not on OS X my Linux boxes are happily testing and running KDE 4.8.2 and GNOME 3.4.2 from Debian. I look forward to 3.6 and especially the day I can modify the magnetic attraction to the upper left corner that takes control of my mouse when moving menu windows and I happen to miss. I also look forward to being able to not have my applications always launch and position themselves upper left (0,0) [relative to the menu top bar] of Gnome which often has me dealing with the mouse flying up and bringing out the hidden list of application options. I cannot effin' stand KDE's little widget approach--embarrassing relative to OS X, and it's Plasma puke all over the desktop environment so I reduce it's presence to the limit allowed.
The experience for both is different but grow on you. GNOME 2.x is overtly dated and always looked like an aborted version of the old Mac OS desktop. WindowMaker reminds me of how little people understand NeXTSTEP and what Keith Ohlfs and the Graphics Team at NeXT did to make it.
When Debian gets around to KDE 4.9.x I hope it's more refined because there are many areas [System Settings for example] that are just garbage, especially the toxic multimedia settings section
No, I love hearing about it. Especially because I used to love Apple. Now I see them as monstrous bullies.
Then have the balls to post under a real profile.
This is a developing concept with the potential of being a paradigm shift. Now days anything you want to do, there is a YouTube video. From baking bread, to understanding excel, to trying to figure out complex math concepts. Somebody charismatic among a multitude on mediocre has made a video or a tutorial.
We are comparing an old method of tuition with a new concept of online learning. There are elements of online learning that cannot duplicate face to face tuition, but the reverse is overwhelmingly on the side of online learning.
Some of the greatest innovators are self taught. Some of the most brilliant mathematicians/scientists are also self taught. How many more self taught brilliant minds will this produce ? How many more of the rest of us will not have access to knowledge there is no way we would have pursued under the "old" system ?
For every self-taught you have tens of thousands equally taught or greater. Sorry, but Newton came around once. Same with Einstein, Bohr, etc. They all had formal training.
How much interaction does big lecture classes at a traditional university have?? and what if differnt from on line then???
Also why pay the high traditional university price when you can get the same on line with DRV control?
Depends on how much of a coward one is to be too afraid to ask questions. Sorry, but having a few degrees at a major US university, nothing beats that interaction. If you don't think it is pertinent to ask your professor to work out the integral that you aren't seeing, then you're short changing yourself. Please spare me the on-line quality vs. University quality. They are night and day. Go get a Mechanical Engineering degree and discover how important it is being immersed in your field with groups of ME students working on projects. On line crap just doesn't cut it.
Thrun's AI class. Both are garbage. I'm speaking as a Mechanical Engineer and Computer Science degree'd with just a few credits short of a Mathematics B.S. and EE B.S. He's an awful professor. His book on AI is riddled with poor explanations, dull language and tons of grammatical errors. Nothing beats being there or if not directly with a butt in the lecture hall and at his office hours, at least via the Internet in real-time to watch his lectures. This is not the future of teaching.
I think Apple does give people access to their "own content" as much as they want.
Dude, are you smoking crack? OS X is based on an open source operating system that they then carved up and bolted on their own stuff, patented it, and threatened anyone who even looked at it sideways with a lawsuit. Then they built a walled garden around that so it's difficult to get applications anywhere but through them. Then they walled in those apps by making sure Apple had to approve each one individually, and double-walled it by making sure Apple got a cut of any content distributed by those applications.
Apple doesn't want you to own anything, even your own personal data. OS X is the only operating system I've used where there's no way to cancel or abort registration: You have to enter a name, address, and phone number to get to the login. It tries to phone home that information right away, even while lying to you on the interface by saying you don't have to register and leaving an icon on the screen for you to do it later... as if it didn't know it already phoned home.
No, Apple doesn't want to give you anything. They want to control all of it; like an amusement park. You're not allowed to bring in any outside food or beverage, and the only thing you can leave with is a few trinkets and a lot less of your money. If you think otherwise, you're lying to yourself.
How ironic that FreeBSD, BSD, NetBSD and Darwin all get along yet the Linux pricks bitch, moan and complain while painting a fantasy of the BSD Ecosystem and how Apple raped them over. Your ignorance is what people in the FreeBSD world already know--viral.
I don't see how taking advantage of other people's stupidity doesn't still make you an asshole.
Then the entire globe is one giant collective group of assholes.
Well you're lying. Having worked tech support for Apple, specifically doing iPod/iPhone and iTunes support, I can assure you that an iPod is designed to not allow you to transfer music off of it. You can use itunes to transfer purchases back to your computer, but only things you have purchased from itunes and only to the computer your ipod/iphone is synced to. In order to transfer music back you need a 3rd party program and what you get is music files with not song info attached so you have to hope that gracenote can find what song it is or you're stuck manually entering all the data on it. The songs file name isn't even correct. I somehow doubt that your 7 year old is able to manage the neccessary steps to do more that the basic sync of purchased music, which is really not neccessary because of the iCloud implementation.
You sync your music back to iTunes and then take it out of the file system. It's UNIX. Having worked at NeXT and Apple in Engineering and Professional Services if you cannot manage to get music back off your iPod then you deserve not to work in the Support Team. Hell, the music information is held in PLIST files. They are straight XML files. If you cannot figure out how to get all the superfluous information that iTunes gathered for you please stop working with audio/video files.
And that's the problem with Isaacson's book. It's a piss poor portrayal of Steven P. Jobs due to its obsessive focus on the Macintosh days with nearly nothing of PIXAR or NeXT. Sorry, but having worked at the latter two we always thought the Mac days group were a bunch of whining douchebags.
By 1900 the US Population was: 76,094,000. The World Population was:1.656 Billion. Today we're over 310 Million the US and over 7 Billion world-wide. What's your point? Did you somehow expect the total number of patents to grow considerably slower because the world's population exploded.
Tesla innovated just fine. He died crazy and poor while lesser men made themselves the gatekeepers to his creations and robbed the masses blind, sure... but he still innovated. Well, invented... innovation is the dumb-grunt work, really... but the principle is the same.
Just because you're a slave doesn't mean you can't work.
Tesla was poor because he was too nice. The man let all his stock rights to Westinghouse be foregone to keep Westinghouse afloat. In hindsight, I doubt Tesla would be nice, today, and nor should anyone expect it of him or any one else.
Anyone who thinks NeXT and now Apple's Object Model is a POS is FOS. Sorry, but nothing in Linux is remotely as elegant, powerful and reusable. All everyone has been doing since 1994 is incorporating more and more ideas from NeXT and it started with Java [many of Java's architects came from NeXT].
Linux will never be OS X. You lost the battle long ago with X11.
Linux desktop share is growing faster than Mac OS X is, neither is growing at any impressive rate though, but it is almost 5 years ago now that Mac OS X overtook Linux on the desktop, and more than a few years since it was growing faster.
So either very old news or yes: Troll.
Growing from a few million is far easier to grow from than over 80 million. Ask Microsoft all about growth rates.
You can use macports or homebrew on OS X. Both have all of the key OSS packages, and the latter additionally allows to manage your own private packages. What else would you need? OS X is FreeBSD with a fancy UI (and Obj-C)... You can shell script the daylights out of your box all you want if that's your thing.
It's a helluva a lot more than just FreeBSD with a fancy UI, but whatever floats your boat on generalities, however false and misleading.
apt-get is more like the official app store.
It comes with the system. It handles pretty much anything. It can even accommodate 3rd parties.
So in that respect there's really nothing comparable on a Mac. Just stuff that kind of sort of partially covers what apt-get does.
Being not-quite-comprehensive kind of defeats the entire point.
Having run Debian [typing on it] for over 12 years, APT-GET is nothing like the App Store. In fact, the App Store doesn't have dependency issues that puke out fairly often and force one to manipulate around the bonehead mistakes package owners forget to test against and thus send out other revisions of an App all because they screwed up the packaing. APT-GET is not the end-all-to-be all and neither is Aptitude [ncurses front end], nor DPKG and anything else.
Go make something "real" (a table, a building, a computer network, a toy or a television) and then realize that you have to make a new one every time you want to get paid again. That's how the REST of us make a living, by working continuously and saving our money, not by making a recording at the age of 18 and then being paid repeatedly for copies other people make for the next 50 years. Just because what you make is "creative" and non-tangible, doesn't make it worth any more that what the rest of us make.
Been there, done that numbnuts. Manual labor is simple. Any halfwit can do it, stoned or sober. That's why it's call blue collar work.
History shows that Apple and Steve Jobs are getting the last laugh in who is better at business, not to mention the entire computing experience.