Censorship is only censorship if it's done (or mandated) by the government. Your school librarian does not engage in censorship if he crosses out the dirty words in each book in the library. If he is required to do that by the government, that that is censorship.
Amendment I.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Sounds like the law discussed above would abridge someone's right to free speech. Depending on the blocking software, it could possibly abridge the freedom of the press. If this law passes, you can pretty much bet that a case fighting this will go before the Supreme Court.
There is no way that Nintendo could have ripped off Apple in this case. The G4 Cube was developed in complete secrecy. NGC was developed in complete secrecy. Nintendo's product was demonstrated less than a month after Apple's. No way they could have stolen Steve's idea and implemented that quickly. None.
This happened over a month ago. Why is it newsworthy?
> their own separate market, which is tiny in
> comparison and progressively getting smaller.
On the contrary! Apple is about to outgrow Dell. Bear in mind that's Apple's CFO predicting that, but if you think people aren't going to take notice of their new OS along with their new hardware, then you're blind (or at least color-blind).:)
Apple is also leading the way in wireless networking. They're a long way from a "tiny market."
This won't last long at all
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This probably won't be moderated up since the original post has been up all day, but here goes anyway.
1. IANAL, but my interpretation of the final ruling leads me to believe that requiring a user to bend over backwards to fix their Windows installation is covered is against the ruling. Microsoft is being punished for limiting consumer choice, and not providing a real installation disc limits us in pretty much the same way as disallowing OEMs to offer other OSes.
2. Remember DIVX? You know, Circuit City's attempt at video rental domination? Ler me refresh: DIVX discs could only be played on the player they were purchased/rented for. The disc wouldn't play after the rental period expired. You could purchase the disc (and watch it forever if you wanted to), but you could only play it on the machine you purchased it for. Sounds much like what's going on with Office 2K, doesn't it? DIVX took a while to die off, but it did, and I'm confident the same thing will happen with this practice.
People don't like it when you restrict what they can and cannot do with something they spent their hard-earned money on, and I've a feeling that most people will vote with their checkbooks on this one.
The best place to find high-quality music for free is etree.org.
We've been trading cd-quality live music online for almost two years now. The best part is that what we do is acually sanctioned by the bands, most of which have big-time record deals (namely Phish and the Grateful Dead). They've given the RIAA the finger and so have we.
CowboyNeal, I'm surprised I haven't seen you on the mailing list yet...
It may sound silly, but that's exactly the lesson taught by "Return of the Jedi," wherein Darth Vader is forgiven all his sins, because he saved the life of his own son.
Uh, no. He saved the entire galaxy. By overthrowing the Emporer, he allowed peace and goodwill to once again rule the galaxy. He didn't undo the atrocities he committed, but he was the only one who could overthrow the Emporer and thus allow the galaxy to begin anew.
The Hitler analogy doesn't really hold, either. It's more the equivalent of Hitler's right-hand man killing Hitler and thus essentially ending WWII.
Besides, haven't you heard of the Christian concept of sin and forgivness?
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Amendment I.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Sounds like the law discussed above would abridge someone's right to free speech. Depending on the blocking software, it could possibly abridge the freedom of the press. If this law passes, you can pretty much bet that a case fighting this will go before the Supreme Court.
This happened over a month ago. Why is it newsworthy?
> comparison and progressively getting smaller.
On the contrary! Apple is about to outgrow Dell. Bear in mind that's Apple's CFO predicting that, but if you think people aren't going to take notice of their new OS along with their new hardware, then you're blind (or at least color-blind). :)
Apple is also leading the way in wireless networking. They're a long way from a "tiny market."
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For God's sake, it's spelled "peeled."
1. IANAL, but my interpretation of the final ruling leads me to believe that requiring a user to bend over backwards to fix their Windows installation is covered is against the ruling. Microsoft is being punished for limiting consumer choice, and not providing a real installation disc limits us in pretty much the same way as disallowing OEMs to offer other OSes.
2. Remember DIVX? You know, Circuit City's attempt at video rental domination? Ler me refresh: DIVX discs could only be played on the player they were purchased/rented for. The disc wouldn't play after the rental period expired. You could purchase the disc (and watch it forever if you wanted to), but you could only play it on the machine you purchased it for. Sounds much like what's going on with Office 2K, doesn't it? DIVX took a while to die off, but it did, and I'm confident the same thing will happen with this practice.
People don't like it when you restrict what they can and cannot do with something they spent their hard-earned money on, and I've a feeling that most people will vote with their checkbooks on this one.
We've been trading cd-quality live music online for almost two years now. The best part is that what we do is acually sanctioned by the bands, most of which have big-time record deals (namely Phish and the Grateful Dead). They've given the RIAA the finger and so have we.
CowboyNeal, I'm surprised I haven't seen you on the mailing list yet...
Uh, no. He saved the entire galaxy. By overthrowing the Emporer, he allowed peace and goodwill to once again rule the galaxy. He didn't undo the atrocities he committed, but he was the only one who could overthrow the Emporer and thus allow the galaxy to begin anew.
The Hitler analogy doesn't really hold, either. It's more the equivalent of Hitler's right-hand man killing Hitler and thus essentially ending WWII.
Besides, haven't you heard of the Christian concept of sin and forgivness?
John