I agree. After looking at the iphone, HTC and Nokia samplings for a work phone, I realised that the iphone just doesn't cut it. Too fragile, too wide and a messy jumble of a user interface along with hardly any disk space. After looking at one product, Apple was out. After looking at several Nokia phones, I found the N97 to be pretty much perfect. In fact, I've always been able to find a sturdy Nokia phone to fit my needs at the time.
While Nokia may have taken a bit of a market bump from Apple and should take it's competition seriously, Apple is only competing with a portion of Nokia's range. Then there is Nokia's amazing customer loyalty which has been built up over many years. Face it. We all know people who just won't buy anything else. One product from Apple and a few Android phones is not going to erode Nokia's customer base away too quickly...
It's always a shock when the old guard has to recognise modern techniques or attitudes... In this case, we have the old guard trying to protect their corporate monopoly.
I'm pretty sure that protecting your God-given rights to the works you've created precludes anyone else from releasing works under a free license. People who are releasing their works under a Creative Commons are stealing from the real artists, who work so hard to earn a living. They just want to get stuff for free. Good to see ASCAP has understood this simple fact.
Are you trolling or seriously arguing on the side of ASCAP?
Who says that artists have God-given rights to their works for a start? I've personally done several years of Scriptural studies, can read and write in Biblical Greek and Hebrew and find nothing to support this strange idea of yours.
Let me use a parable to explain what ASCAP seems to be wanting to do. "At a large park there is a running track all the way around the public gardens. Many people use it every day, but when the weather is hot, they get really dehydrated and sometimes people even have heart attacks while running. An enterprising kid makes up a great drink with a mix of fruit juices and salts to sell to the runners. Some other youths set up a protection racket to make sure that the runners buy his product and take a large cut of money on the top for their 'services'. Meanwhile another kid also produces a good drink for the runners, but he really wants to just give it away. He sets up in another part of the park and starts to give away drinks on the hot days. The boys in the protection racket hear about him and come over to threaten him. When he doesn't seem likely to stop, they try and get the police to take him away."
That is what ASCAP is about. If I want to put a copyleft license on what I produce, what is that to them? If I want other people to enjoy what I've done, to use it and possibly copy it or improve on it, what is that to ASCAP? It doesn't mean that I want anyone elses work for free, it just means I want to share what I've enjoyed making with other people on my own terms. What is wrong with that?
The news value here being a Prime Minister's gender is condescending to Julia Gillard as a politician.
The news value should be "Aus PM changes: Will she drop Conroy?"
The real issue is we didn't vote her in as PM and she stabbed the leader that was voted in, and that put her in a high position in government, in the back. I didn't like Rudd much, but I felt sorry for him today. His trusted colleague slipped in the knife and twisted. It won't go down well with the Australian voters.
The elevation above sea level of the land one lives on is hardly personal or private information... A photograph of one's house, car, children playing on the lawn etc could be considered to be somewhat different.
I don't know anyone who uses it in Australia either. No doubt some people would, but I've had video capable phones for years and only ever made a couple of calls to try out phone features. Only received one video call in the past 6 years and that was my brother trying out phone features I think. Na. Aussies like sending MMS better and leave the phone calls voice only.
It's a very Japanese thing. It's probably based on the concept of Mottainai, where wasting something (such as food) is seen as wrong/immoral.
The meaning is more nuanced than "wasting" but it is as close I can describe it without copying the entire Wikipedia page.
This is very interesting. Where I live it is so multicultural that I try and be careful as to whether I am supposed to leave food on the table or not according to the culture of my hosts. When dining with Philippinos for instance, I may finish the food on my plate, but always leave food in the serving bowls so as not to make it look as if they didn't prepare enough food. With Nepalese there is generally too much food, but I'll happily finish it without fear of embarrassment. Sri Lankans don't know when to stop cooking anyway, so there is always food to take home no matter what and with Sudanese I eat until I am very full to honour my hosts - if there is still some food left they are not offended, as long as I finish all on my plate and have had a second helping!
Trying to enforce social or cultural mores on another culture in a restaurant/business context is a bit over the top, but I don't know Japanese culture well enough to comment too much.
Patenting a screening system designed to find this gene is patenting an invention. Patenting the gene itself is taking credit for something that no man has yet achieved!
He just has to militarise it and probably start a cyber war to 'protect people's freedom'. After starting the cyber war, he'll try and introduce invasive security protocols that restrict what Americans and others can do on the internet - all to safeguard freedom and democracy of course.
The report I referred to was the arson investigation. As a former firefighter and not just a proud relative, I knew my job well. We used to have training setting things on fire in different ways, then putting it out and studying the evidence. We had to be able to spot evidence in the heat of the moment so we could preserve it for later investigations.
Trust me though, child of an investigator. Fires which still give no real clues after an investigation, are put down as electrical faults.
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I agree. After looking at the iphone, HTC and Nokia samplings for a work phone, I realised that the iphone just doesn't cut it. Too fragile, too wide and a messy jumble of a user interface along with hardly any disk space. After looking at one product, Apple was out. After looking at several Nokia phones, I found the N97 to be pretty much perfect. In fact, I've always been able to find a sturdy Nokia phone to fit my needs at the time.
While Nokia may have taken a bit of a market bump from Apple and should take it's competition seriously, Apple is only competing with a portion of Nokia's range. Then there is Nokia's amazing customer loyalty which has been built up over many years. Face it. We all know people who just won't buy anything else. One product from Apple and a few Android phones is not going to erode Nokia's customer base away too quickly...
Or burp.... "Bwaaaaaaaarpp!! Aaah. Sorry, eaten too much!"
because it was figured out long ago, check out the wikipedia article for "US Cyber Command"
Actually if you check the history on that article, it was put up just after the publication of TFA, on the 7th of July this year.
No doubt the intention being to get the couple talking. Maybe a 15% chance of working...
It's always a shock when the old guard has to recognise modern techniques or attitudes... In this case, we have the old guard trying to protect their corporate monopoly.
Or try switching through channels 1,6 and 11 until you find one where you don't get interference. That's what I do...
That Firefox users were smarter internet users.
Whoever thought that? It's been years since use of Firefox was by a fairly select group of the tech savvy. Didn't you notice it going mainstream?
I'm pretty sure that protecting your God-given rights to the works you've created precludes anyone else from releasing works under a free license. People who are releasing their works under a Creative Commons are stealing from the real artists, who work so hard to earn a living. They just want to get stuff for free. Good to see ASCAP has understood this simple fact.
Are you trolling or seriously arguing on the side of ASCAP?
Who says that artists have God-given rights to their works for a start? I've personally done several years of Scriptural studies, can read and write in Biblical Greek and Hebrew and find nothing to support this strange idea of yours.
Let me use a parable to explain what ASCAP seems to be wanting to do. "At a large park there is a running track all the way around the public gardens. Many people use it every day, but when the weather is hot, they get really dehydrated and sometimes people even have heart attacks while running. An enterprising kid makes up a great drink with a mix of fruit juices and salts to sell to the runners. Some other youths set up a protection racket to make sure that the runners buy his product and take a large cut of money on the top for their 'services'. Meanwhile another kid also produces a good drink for the runners, but he really wants to just give it away. He sets up in another part of the park and starts to give away drinks on the hot days. The boys in the protection racket hear about him and come over to threaten him. When he doesn't seem likely to stop, they try and get the police to take him away."
That is what ASCAP is about. If I want to put a copyleft license on what I produce, what is that to them? If I want other people to enjoy what I've done, to use it and possibly copy it or improve on it, what is that to ASCAP? It doesn't mean that I want anyone elses work for free, it just means I want to share what I've enjoyed making with other people on my own terms. What is wrong with that?
The news value here being a Prime Minister's gender is condescending to Julia Gillard as a politician.
The news value should be "Aus PM changes: Will she drop Conroy?"
The real issue is we didn't vote her in as PM and she stabbed the leader that was voted in, and that put her in a high position in government, in the back. I didn't like Rudd much, but I felt sorry for him today. His trusted colleague slipped in the knife and twisted. It won't go down well with the Australian voters.
Anti-virus software doesn't slow down a computer anywhere near as much as a couple of trojans will!
The elevation above sea level of the land one lives on is hardly personal or private information... A photograph of one's house, car, children playing on the lawn etc could be considered to be somewhat different.
I don't know anyone who uses it in Australia either. No doubt some people would, but I've had video capable phones for years and only ever made a couple of calls to try out phone features. Only received one video call in the past 6 years and that was my brother trying out phone features I think. Na. Aussies like sending MMS better and leave the phone calls voice only.
It's a very Japanese thing. It's probably based on the concept of Mottainai, where wasting something (such as food) is seen as wrong/immoral. The meaning is more nuanced than "wasting" but it is as close I can describe it without copying the entire Wikipedia page.
This is very interesting. Where I live it is so multicultural that I try and be careful as to whether I am supposed to leave food on the table or not according to the culture of my hosts. When dining with Philippinos for instance, I may finish the food on my plate, but always leave food in the serving bowls so as not to make it look as if they didn't prepare enough food. With Nepalese there is generally too much food, but I'll happily finish it without fear of embarrassment. Sri Lankans don't know when to stop cooking anyway, so there is always food to take home no matter what and with Sudanese I eat until I am very full to honour my hosts - if there is still some food left they are not offended, as long as I finish all on my plate and have had a second helping!
Trying to enforce social or cultural mores on another culture in a restaurant/business context is a bit over the top, but I don't know Japanese culture well enough to comment too much.
Patenting a screening system designed to find this gene is patenting an invention. Patenting the gene itself is taking credit for something that no man has yet achieved!
What? We want to have our own culture and identity and not walk at the heal of the USA or Europe? That must be shocking for you!
The general public mostly interacts with the www only. The www is only a part of the internet.
He just has to militarise it and probably start a cyber war to 'protect people's freedom'. After starting the cyber war, he'll try and introduce invasive security protocols that restrict what Americans and others can do on the internet - all to safeguard freedom and democracy of course.
Apple took some of the best of open source - and made sure they screwed with it enough that they could claim it as their own.
Find a way to make SSL certification slow down your computer as well? Maybe they intend to slow down the whole internet?!?
So when you plug your headset into your ear it charges? Cool...
The report I referred to was the arson investigation. As a former firefighter and not just a proud relative, I knew my job well. We used to have training setting things on fire in different ways, then putting it out and studying the evidence. We had to be able to spot evidence in the heat of the moment so we could preserve it for later investigations. Trust me though, child of an investigator. Fires which still give no real clues after an investigation, are put down as electrical faults.
As an ex firefighter, anything that isn't obviously arson, with no clear cause, will be reported as an electrical fault.
Happy B'day red dot!
I guess he got a taste of his own medicine?
No, but getting council approval seems to have been a piece of piss.