Hmm all my kids think Wall-E is a animated version of the "Short Circuit" movie's Johny 5 robot. They haven't seen the movie, Just trailers.. Maybe this weekend.
Well I think Apples big problem isn't so much the EULA violation. It's more about the damage to their image these things are doing..
Reading the Article I get the impression the machines are junk hardware and users are calling apple for support. Also they have done more then load up a new EFI boot loader.. They have stripped apps out of the OS.
Online commentators have reported that Psystar's computer is "missing stuff like iLife, Bluetooth. an IR receiver, DVD burning and the ability to update your computer," is "LOUD, Crazy Loud," it "breaks the OS' automatic updates," and that "video was DOA right out of the box. No signal going to monitor Boot up is moot point as there is nothing to see." Of Psystar itself reviewers have written "they have no quality control," "lousy tech support," and "All I want to do is return the computer and get a refund." Likewise, it has been reported that Psystar has repeatedly changed location, this its office could not be found and that its first on-line payment processor terminated Psystar's account
Under the mitigation of damages doctrine, a person who has suffered an injury or loss should take reasonable action, where possible, to avoid additional injury or loss. The failure of a plaintiff to take protective steps after suffering an injury or loss can reduce the amount of the plaintiff's recovery. The mitigation of damages doctrine is sometimes called minimization of damages or the doctrine of avoidable consequences.
A company can go make it's own PS3 compatible console if it wrote the code to emulate the PS3 system.. If there is no sony code on the box they can't stop them.
That falls in the same area as the Nintendo and PS1 emulators for PC. They tried to stop them and lost.
Trademark violations are another thing so you have be carefull about your advertising.
The Phystar issue is different. They are loading apple code on the box mixed with their own code to get it working in violation of the EULA.
Now if they had gone and wrote their own mac compatable OS then they would be in the clear on the copyright issues.
Well from what I read the users buy the OS but Psystar is doing the install.. So Phystar employees are the ones clicking through the EULA, Not the user.
Well getting damages in a copyright case does equire trying to mitigate damages.. They may have spent the time trying to the company to comply or get a licensing agreement worked out. Apple's case will go much smoother if they can show they tried to settle the issue before moving to legal options.
A good idea but also change all the service account passwords they had access to. Any shop should have a plan for rotating the service account passwords..
And above all be sure the service accounts are NOT enabled for remote access. Yeah it's a pain but it'll stop someone from getting in through some back door account.
I know my last job didn't do this and I can think of 1 or 2 service accounts with full control I know the password on and could be use for remote access.
Not that I would.. But I'm not the olny one and they have lost a lot of unhappy people lately.
First off.. as has been mentioned before.. The acticle sucks.. I think he forgot more than his laptop that day.
As I was saying this is exactly why I keep an old desktop alive and kicking at my desk.. It servers 2 functions.. One is a playground for testing new software hacks for suport issues. If I nuke it it's easy to drop a new image. It's 2nd job is as a backup PC when my laptop dies, gets tied up with another process or just gets left behind. It's also great for running long tasks that hog all the resources making it useless for other tasks.
Yeah you do have a point there.. Funny thing.. I've had a PDA tyle Cell phone for the last 6 years and I've only recieved 1 text spam.. Maybe I'm just lucky.
There is no way you will get people to pay to recieve an email message unless you have some plan for 100% perfect spam control. Charge to send a Email? hmm maybe if you can guarentee I won't be charged every time some spammer spoofs my address.
They will have to come up with some kind of encrypted E-Stamp. You would buy a stamp from a trusted cert site like verisign and attach it to your message.. That "stamp/cert" would guarentee delivery through all anti-spam appliances.
You know what will happen next.. the stamp/cert company will make new "classes" and service levels. Charge for delivery confirmation and read recipt. Prioroty delivery certs and so on.. bulk mail certs at discounted rates.. You'll still get spam, just spam you can't do anything about because it's been paid for. Someone will always be willing to drop a few cents to tell you about the Shiny new Product X now with additive A
All 3 wrote some great short stories.. Get the Short story collection books.. Niven's Neutron Star is a good one.. There are loads from all 3.. Asimov the robot stories collections.. Also the Asimov Lucky Star series (writen as Paul French) is good if you can find copies.. Used book stors will be your best bet for any of these.
Look for the early works from the 50's and 60's They were all writing for the pulp sci-fi rags and targeting the teen crowd.
Also look for Heinleins "The Rolling Stones" or "Have SpaceSuit Will Travel" Both are about teen boys.
If you want to throw Tolken into the mix start with The hobbit.
And I thought "Bloatware" was any new release from Microsoft. 10x the size of the last release with the menu re-arranged so you can't find anything. Plus 15 new craptacular "features" (We call em bugs folks)
Typical Private Pilot training runs $6,000-$10,000 and about 75 hours of your time.
Once you have it plane rental can run $100-300 an hour (fuel is typically included in the rental rate)
Or buy your own for $50,000 or more then tack in $6.55 a gallon for 110LL Avgas. Expect about 15 Nautical Miles pr Gallon from something like a Cessna 172 (25 gallon fuel load, 315NM range)
You can get a plane for less but expect some big bill in the near future for required maintnance.
It's only the 4th dupe.. I'm sure it can make more.. Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself On June 5th, 2008 with 237 comments TaeKwonDood writes "Automated machines have been around for decades. They have basically been dumb devices that do simple assembly tasks. But RepRap takes... Hardware  Robotics, Technology Score: 2.9 3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License On April 7th, 2008 with 313 comments Rob O'Neill writes "A Kiwi open source developer is working on a self-replicating 3D printer, RepRap, to be made available under the GNU license. 'The 3D... Hardware  GNU is Not Unix, Patents, Hardware Score: 5.1 Open Source Self-Replicating Robot On June 4th, 2005 with 194 comments Josilot writes "CNN.Com is running an article about a new self-replicating robot named RepRap. From the article: 'A revolutionary machine that can copy itself... Hardware  Robotics, Science, Index Score: 5.8 Towards Self-Replicating Rapid Prototypers On March 17th, 2005 with 285 comments Neil Halelamien writes "Researchers at the University of Bath are developing a rapid prototyping machine capable of making copies of itself and other products,... Technology  Robotics, Technology Score: 2.4
This is something that been going on with small engines and Chinese manufactures too..
A US company will contract for a specific line to be produced.. A few months later you'll see a Hong Kong Web store open up selling the same motor for 1/2 price.. The quality usually isn't all that great..
I suspect the manufacturer might be finding things to do with excess parts and dumping in the parts that wouldn't pass QA for the original contract.
Exactly my point.. I has a children's astronomy book in 1978 that predicted it the same way.. News Flash!, 30 year old solar predictions still predicted!
I just wish people would learn the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to all"
We had a reply storm of "please remove me from this list" after 1 person got sick of downtime notifications.
After that We locked down the All Staff list but then someone really wanted to reply so he expended the sub lists and replied to all of them.
Funny how they never reply after I tell them that quick nasty "I'm so sick of these messages, remove me now!!" bitch letter went to over 1,000 people including the CEO
I can't remember what came first.. Are we talking home or Arcade? For the Arcade it was either playing Tank or Asteroids
For home gaming I'm up in the air..
It was either playing pong on my friends home Atari or Starblaze 100 on the COCO II Model 80 at home.
One thing I definitely remember was coding in Snail Invaders from Rainbow Magazine.. The program never worked perfectly but we got it close. I found out later that the original code from the magazine has some major bugs.
Anyone remember the program records in Rainbow Magazine? record them to audo tape and load in to the COCO.
I was so pumped when I got a 5 1/4" floppy drive.. I thought I'd never fill that thing up.
But ABC did decided to cover him... not through a real piece, or a little 1 hour documentary, but through insulting him as a joke for Andy Roony
Not to be Picky but Andy Roony is on CBS.
I guess the other thing thats bugging me is people don't remember what kind of coverage there was for Cobain's suicide. I worked for a CBS affiliate and I had to listen to days and days of coverage.. Reporters trying to string together facts from his drug overdose the month before.. Endless live shots from his home in Seattle and the hospital where they took his body... Blathering on about where he got the gun.. what kind of gun.. what was he thinking.. crying fans..
It was covered all to well. Somehow everyone is taking one persons view on what happened 15 years ago as the truth and disregards their own memory of the facts.
I've tried them in assorted places and I find they last longest when they are rarely switched on or off. I'm lucky to get 6 month out of CFL in a ceiling can light in either the hall or kitchen. In area that have either vibration or are turned on/off several times a day they don't last any longer then a standard bulb.
I do wonder if I were to replace them with a CF fixture that had an external ballast if it would work as advertised. I suspect it's the crappy disposable ballast in the screw type CF bulbs that's the real issue.
I put 100w CFL's in my outdoor lights.. I almost never remember to turn them off and they are still going strong after a year. I had two in my old garage that I never turned off.. They were still going after 3 years when I sold the house.
I have standard 48" T-12 FLO lights in my current Garage that I also never turn off.. 4 years on the same set of bulbs and still going.
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Hmm all my kids think Wall-E is a animated version of the "Short Circuit" movie's Johny 5 robot.
They haven't seen the movie, Just trailers.. Maybe this weekend.
Well I think Apples big problem isn't so much the EULA violation.
It's more about the damage to their image these things are doing..
Reading the Article I get the impression the machines are junk hardware and users are calling apple for support. Also they have done more then load up a new EFI boot loader.. They have stripped apps out of the OS.
Online commentators have reported that Psystar's computer is "missing stuff like iLife, Bluetooth. an IR receiver, DVD burning and the ability to update your computer," is "LOUD, Crazy Loud," it "breaks the OS' automatic updates," and that "video was DOA right out of the box. No signal going to monitor Boot up is moot point as there is nothing to see." Of Psystar itself reviewers have written "they have no quality control," "lousy tech support," and "All I want to do is return the computer and get a refund." Likewise, it has been reported that Psystar has repeatedly changed location, this its office could not be found and that its first on-line payment processor terminated Psystar's account
I highly doubt Apple just "ignored" the situation..
A little light reading on Mitigation of Damages
http://www.answers.com/topic/mitigation-of-damages?cat=biz-fin
Under the mitigation of damages doctrine, a person who has suffered an injury or loss should take reasonable action, where possible, to avoid additional injury or loss. The failure of a plaintiff to take protective steps after suffering an injury or loss can reduce the amount of the plaintiff's recovery. The mitigation of damages doctrine is sometimes called minimization of damages or the doctrine of avoidable consequences.
Well no not the same..
A company can go make it's own PS3 compatible console if it wrote the code to emulate the PS3 system..
If there is no sony code on the box they can't stop them.
That falls in the same area as the Nintendo and PS1 emulators for PC.
They tried to stop them and lost.
Trademark violations are another thing so you have be carefull about your advertising.
The Phystar issue is different.
They are loading apple code on the box mixed with their own code to get it working in violation of the EULA.
Now if they had gone and wrote their own mac compatable OS then they would be in the clear on the copyright issues.
Well from what I read the users buy the OS but Psystar is doing the install..
So Phystar employees are the ones clicking through the EULA, Not the user.
Well getting damages in a copyright case does equire trying to mitigate damages..
They may have spent the time trying to the company to comply or get a licensing agreement worked out.
Apple's case will go much smoother if they can show they tried to settle the issue before moving to legal options.
A good idea but also change all the service account passwords they had access to.
Any shop should have a plan for rotating the service account passwords..
And above all be sure the service accounts are NOT enabled for remote access.
Yeah it's a pain but it'll stop someone from getting in through some back door account.
I know my last job didn't do this and I can think of 1 or 2 service accounts with full control I know the password on and could be use for remote access.
Not that I would.. But I'm not the olny one and they have lost a lot of unhappy people lately.
First off.. as has been mentioned before.. The acticle sucks.. I think he forgot more than his laptop that day.
As I was saying this is exactly why I keep an old desktop alive and kicking at my desk..
It servers 2 functions.. One is a playground for testing new software hacks for suport issues.
If I nuke it it's easy to drop a new image.
It's 2nd job is as a backup PC when my laptop dies, gets tied up with another process or just gets left behind. It's also great for running long tasks that hog all the resources making it useless for other tasks.
You have Power Controls from On Track?
http://www.ontrackpowercontrols.co.uk/
It cann open the EDB, open mailboxes, search and export to PST or exchange mailboxes without an exchange server.. Way cool tool.
Yeah you do have a point there..
Funny thing.. I've had a PDA tyle Cell phone for the last 6 years and I've only recieved 1 text spam..
Maybe I'm just lucky.
My Email is running over 95% spam.
-Send Email 0.05/Email/Recipient + Network Management Fee
-Receive Email : 0.01/Message + Network Management Fee
There is no way you will get people to pay to recieve an email message unless you have some plan for 100% perfect spam control.
Charge to send a Email? hmm maybe if you can guarentee I won't be charged every time some spammer spoofs my address.
They will have to come up with some kind of encrypted E-Stamp. You would buy a stamp from a trusted cert site like verisign and attach it to your message.. That "stamp/cert" would guarentee delivery through all anti-spam appliances.
You know what will happen next.. the stamp/cert company will make new "classes" and service levels. Charge for delivery confirmation and read recipt. Prioroty delivery certs and so on.. bulk mail certs at discounted rates.. You'll still get spam, just spam you can't do anything about because it's been paid for.
Someone will always be willing to drop a few cents to tell you about the Shiny new Product X now with additive A
For kids all 3 have some great offering..
All 3 wrote some great short stories.. Get the Short story collection books.. Niven's Neutron Star is a good one.. There are loads from all 3.. Asimov the robot stories collections.. Also the Asimov Lucky Star series (writen as Paul French) is good if you can find copies.. Used book stors will be your best bet for any of these.
Look for the early works from the 50's and 60's They were all writing for the pulp sci-fi rags and targeting the teen crowd.
Also look for Heinleins "The Rolling Stones" or "Have SpaceSuit Will Travel"
Both are about teen boys.
If you want to throw Tolken into the mix start with The hobbit.
And I thought "Bloatware" was any new release from Microsoft.
10x the size of the last release with the menu re-arranged so you can't find anything.
Plus 15 new craptacular "features" (We call em bugs folks)
Typical Private Pilot training runs $6,000-$10,000 and about 75 hours of your time.
Once you have it plane rental can run $100-300 an hour (fuel is typically included in the rental rate)
Or buy your own for $50,000 or more then tack in $6.55 a gallon for 110LL Avgas.
Expect about 15 Nautical Miles pr Gallon from something like a Cessna 172 (25 gallon fuel load, 315NM range)
You can get a plane for less but expect some big bill in the near future for required maintnance.
That was the 8860 Auto Chassis.. I loved that one!
I used to make monster 4x4 trucks with turning radar dishes and all kinds of crazy stuff.
http://www.nd.edu/~lego/grp2/www/graphics/lego/8860.jpg
It's only the 4th dupe.. I'm sure it can make more..
Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself
On June 5th, 2008 with 237 comments
TaeKwonDood writes "Automated machines have been around for decades. They have basically been dumb devices that do simple assembly tasks. But RepRap takes...
Hardware  Robotics, Technology
Score: 2.9
3D Self-Replicating Printer to be Released Under GNU License
On April 7th, 2008 with 313 comments
Rob O'Neill writes "A Kiwi open source developer is working on a self-replicating 3D printer, RepRap, to be made available under the GNU license. 'The 3D...
Hardware  GNU is Not Unix, Patents, Hardware
Score: 5.1
Open Source Self-Replicating Robot
On June 4th, 2005 with 194 comments
Josilot writes "CNN.Com is running an article about a new self-replicating robot named RepRap. From the article: 'A revolutionary machine that can copy itself...
Hardware  Robotics, Science, Index
Score: 5.8
Towards Self-Replicating Rapid Prototypers
On March 17th, 2005 with 285 comments
Neil Halelamien writes "Researchers at the University of Bath are developing a rapid prototyping machine capable of making copies of itself and other products,...
Technology  Robotics, Technology
Score: 2.4
Oh you mean like this?
Tomorrowland® Indy Speedway
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=TomorrowlandIndySpeedwayAttractionPage
2 Seat open air karts with real gas engines!
Yes I've been on them and with a 5 year old at the wheel it can be a little scary.
Yes Itunes was based on SoundJam MP released in 1999 but that was just an MP player that Apple re-tagged as Itunes 1.0 in 2001
It was not until Version 4 that the Itunes store was added allowing distribution of music in 2003.
This patent is all about distribution and was filed in 2000.
So apple might have a real issue here.. I hope not..
Information gathered from the ever reliable Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes
This is something that been going on with small engines and Chinese manufactures too..
A US company will contract for a specific line to be produced..
A few months later you'll see a Hong Kong Web store open up selling the same motor for 1/2 price..
The quality usually isn't all that great..
I suspect the manufacturer might be finding things to do with excess parts and dumping in the parts that wouldn't pass QA for the original contract.
Exactly my point.. I has a children's astronomy book in 1978 that predicted it the same way..
News Flash!, 30 year old solar predictions still predicted!
I just wish people would learn the difference between "Reply" and "Reply to all"
We had a reply storm of "please remove me from this list" after 1 person got sick of downtime notifications.
After that We locked down the All Staff list but then someone really wanted to reply so he expended the sub lists and replied to all of them.
Funny how they never reply after I tell them that quick nasty "I'm so sick of these messages, remove me now!!" bitch letter went to over 1,000 people including the CEO
I can't remember what came first..
Are we talking home or Arcade?
For the Arcade it was either playing Tank or Asteroids
For home gaming I'm up in the air..
It was either playing pong on my friends home Atari or Starblaze 100 on the COCO II Model 80 at home.
One thing I definitely remember was coding in Snail Invaders from Rainbow Magazine.. The program never worked perfectly but we got it close. I found out later that the original code from the magazine has some major bugs.
Anyone remember the program records in Rainbow Magazine? record them to audo tape and load in to the COCO.
I was so pumped when I got a 5 1/4" floppy drive.. I thought I'd never fill that thing up.
But ABC did decided to cover him... not through a real piece, or a little 1 hour documentary, but through insulting him as a joke for Andy Roony
Not to be Picky but Andy Roony is on CBS.
I guess the other thing thats bugging me is people don't remember what kind of coverage there was for Cobain's suicide.
I worked for a CBS affiliate and I had to listen to days and days of coverage.. Reporters trying to string together facts from his drug overdose the month before.. Endless live shots from his home in Seattle and the hospital where they took his body...
Blathering on about where he got the gun.. what kind of gun.. what was he thinking.. crying fans..
It was covered all to well. Somehow everyone is taking one persons view on what happened 15 years ago as the truth and disregards their own memory of the facts.
I've tried them in assorted places and I find they last longest when they are rarely switched on or off.
I'm lucky to get 6 month out of CFL in a ceiling can light in either the hall or kitchen.
In area that have either vibration or are turned on/off several times a day they don't last any longer then a standard bulb.
I do wonder if I were to replace them with a CF fixture that had an external ballast if it would work as advertised.
I suspect it's the crappy disposable ballast in the screw type CF bulbs that's the real issue.
I put 100w CFL's in my outdoor lights.. I almost never remember to turn them off and they are still going strong after a year.
I had two in my old garage that I never turned off.. They were still going after 3 years when I sold the house.
I have standard 48" T-12 FLO lights in my current Garage that I also never turn off.. 4 years on the same set of bulbs and still going.
Just add one more thing to the list of stuff people smuggle back from Canada or Mexico
Alcohol, Check
Prescription Drugs, Check
Other Drugs, Check
Light Bulbs, Check