Yes, making death threats is not protected speech. If they didn't want people to ridicule them, etc. they shouldn't have made these statements publicly.
You appeal to the courts if you think their claim is spurious and if you win you resubmit your app. The procedure for fighting the claim is no different than if you weren't selling through someone's store and you were threatened with a lawsuit over a trademark claim against your product.
That's a stupid justification. If you're going to claim something is wrong if the side you dislike does it, then it is equally wrong if the side you like does it. Otherwise you're nothing but a hypocritical fanboi.
How exactly is Oracle running things inefficiently? They gain customers for their products and support contracts from their fork. What exactly is the "inefficiency"?
Providing source diffs for interested users is making a "hostile fork"? Oh the hypocrisy of Slashdot. When Apple provided huge blob diffs they were criticized to no end. When RHEL does it it is defended at all costs because of big, ebil Oracle. If they didn't want people to be able to do thus they shouldn't be using and releasing GPL code.
What I'm wondering is why Intel doesn't sit down w/ organizations that still support Itanium, such as Debian and FreeBSD, to optimize those OSs for the Itanium.
Because it wouldn't benefit them economically?
Similarly, they could also work w/ the GCC and Clang guys to make sure that additional work gets done to finetune those compilers so that they can make the best use of these CPUs.
Why would they bother? They already dropped IA-64 support in their own compilers after version 11.1.
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It is a bit harder to do it on your own without someone to answer questions when you get stuck, but I'm not sure that's actually a disadvantage in the long run: the concept you struggle to understand is remembered better than the one that is handed to you.
Being guided and corrected when you are learning something incorrectly is not having something handed to you. Such a feedback loop is advantageous to prevent you from learning things incorrectly. It would be like claiming you can learn a foreign language purely on your own by reading a book without any feedback from other speakers of the language to point out where your grammar, pronunciation, etc. is incorrect. Video lessons and such are great supplemental education resources, but it doesn't replace the necessity of a feedback loop.
Students CAN ask questions in MOOCs. Instead of bothering the professor, students can have their question answered often multiple times by any of the 5000+ other students.
The problem seems to be more that a professor would consider being asked questions as their students "bothering" them. If you didn't want to actually interact and help teach your kids you shouldn't have become a teacher.
In my opinion, the only thing MOOCs are missing is perhaps the hands-on lab environments, the campus quad, and the prestige of the best colleges.
Great, but your opinion also fails to factor in how people learn in different ways. Some people will definitely learn great with online video courses. Others will not. Trying to hamfist everyone into this system is just as stupid and silly as hamfisting all students into the current system.
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People's bias toward the status quo is sometimes hard to understand.
False dichotomy is false. Just because some people see issues with "MOOC" does not mean they favor the status quo. People's opinion can actually be more nuanced than you might think. It's hilarious to hear at one point people complaining about how the current education system is a one-size-fits-all system and yet their response is to replace it with another one-size-fits-all system. MOOC will be great for many people, but not for everyone.
Why is it crazy to have free or low-cost video lessons taught by professors selected out of many for their teaching enthusiasm and ability (not to mention the automatic quizes to make sure that learning is not completely passive)?
Nice one. You might as well have thrown in "Have you stopped beating your wife, yet?" to the end of that. No one says that free or low-cost education is crazy. People do rightfully question the effectiveness of this teaching style for all students as the proponents seem to want to foist it on everyone good or bad.
Rather, isn't crazy that in many cases students pay around $4,000 for the privilege of being taught by a foreign T.A. with a tenuous grasp of English whose highest priority is just to make it through grad school?
Sure, but that doesn't mean we ditch the entire current system. Extremism is not the answer the problem.
This kind of dick move with the manuals won't do them any good,
It also won't do them any real harm. Oh no! Some obscure Australian website no longer can have downloads for Toshiba manuals. I'm sure they'll lose TENS of sales over this!
Because having access to manuals on a site that probably next to none of their customers have ever heard is the only way that anyone can use a Toshiba laptop?
The site is probably doing nothing for them. It's doubtful that even a tiny fraction of 1% of their customers will have ever heard of the site or will hear this news.
Get your facts correct. The bill that gave the telcos immunity passed in July 2008 before Obama was elected. Though he did later defend that bill as president. This was after the House caved to Bush after previously passing a bill that would have not granted immunity..
Well as long as you ignore that all the legacy x86 software that is still running today wasn't going to be ported to Itanium. People would have just stuck to x86 rather than spending billions on porting and rebuying working software.
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Yes, making death threats is not protected speech. If they didn't want people to ridicule them, etc. they shouldn't have made these statements publicly.
Due process does not apply here. Due process is a requirement on the State to respect the accuser's rights. Apple is not bound by due process.
A company can make a possibly frivilous complaint againt the garden owner who can then kick you out, and you have no recourse.
Sure you do. You gonto the courts and countersue them just like you would have otherwise.
You appeal to the courts if you think their claim is spurious and if you win you resubmit your app. The procedure for fighting the claim is no different than if you weren't selling through someone's store and you were threatened with a lawsuit over a trademark claim against your product.
You do realize that plenty of "dictionary" words are trademarked, right? Apple, Windows, Subway, Amazon, Android, Fire. I could go on and on.
Enjoy being an idiot. Google will do just the same if and when they get a notice from this company.
Prior art has to do with patents. Trademarks are not patents... *facepalm*
It was Apple and Microsoft that started this war.
That's a stupid justification. If you're going to claim something is wrong if the side you dislike does it, then it is equally wrong if the side you like does it. Otherwise you're nothing but a hypocritical fanboi.
How exactly is Oracle running things inefficiently? They gain customers for their products and support contracts from their fork. What exactly is the "inefficiency"?
No, the rules of the license don't "change over time" unless amended to say so. Anything else is whining after the fact and making up unwritten rules.
Considering Oracle made $37 billion in revenue and $10 billion net income last fiscal year, I doubt the costs are all that much to them.
Providing source diffs for interested users is making a "hostile fork"? Oh the hypocrisy of Slashdot. When Apple provided huge blob diffs they were criticized to no end. When RHEL does it it is defended at all costs because of big, ebil Oracle. If they didn't want people to be able to do thus they shouldn't be using and releasing GPL code.
Yeah and the mental gymnastics used to defend RHEL were hilarious.
What I'm wondering is why Intel doesn't sit down w/ organizations that still support Itanium, such as Debian and FreeBSD, to optimize those OSs for the Itanium.
Because it wouldn't benefit them economically?
Similarly, they could also work w/ the GCC and Clang guys to make sure that additional work gets done to finetune those compilers so that they can make the best use of these CPUs.
Why would they bother? They already dropped IA-64 support in their own compilers after version 11.1.
It is a bit harder to do it on your own without someone to answer questions when you get stuck, but I'm not sure that's actually a disadvantage in the long run: the concept you struggle to understand is remembered better than the one that is handed to you.
Being guided and corrected when you are learning something incorrectly is not having something handed to you. Such a feedback loop is advantageous to prevent you from learning things incorrectly. It would be like claiming you can learn a foreign language purely on your own by reading a book without any feedback from other speakers of the language to point out where your grammar, pronunciation, etc. is incorrect. Video lessons and such are great supplemental education resources, but it doesn't replace the necessity of a feedback loop.
Students CAN ask questions in MOOCs. Instead of bothering the professor, students can have their question answered often multiple times by any of the 5000+ other students.
The problem seems to be more that a professor would consider being asked questions as their students "bothering" them. If you didn't want to actually interact and help teach your kids you shouldn't have become a teacher.
In my opinion, the only thing MOOCs are missing is perhaps the hands-on lab environments, the campus quad, and the prestige of the best colleges.
Great, but your opinion also fails to factor in how people learn in different ways. Some people will definitely learn great with online video courses. Others will not. Trying to hamfist everyone into this system is just as stupid and silly as hamfisting all students into the current system.
People's bias toward the status quo is sometimes hard to understand.
False dichotomy is false. Just because some people see issues with "MOOC" does not mean they favor the status quo. People's opinion can actually be more nuanced than you might think. It's hilarious to hear at one point people complaining about how the current education system is a one-size-fits-all system and yet their response is to replace it with another one-size-fits-all system. MOOC will be great for many people, but not for everyone.
Why is it crazy to have free or low-cost video lessons taught by professors selected out of many for their teaching enthusiasm and ability (not to mention the automatic quizes to make sure that learning is not completely passive)?
Nice one. You might as well have thrown in "Have you stopped beating your wife, yet?" to the end of that. No one says that free or low-cost education is crazy. People do rightfully question the effectiveness of this teaching style for all students as the proponents seem to want to foist it on everyone good or bad.
Rather, isn't crazy that in many cases students pay around $4,000 for the privilege of being taught by a foreign T.A. with a tenuous grasp of English whose highest priority is just to make it through grad school?
Sure, but that doesn't mean we ditch the entire current system. Extremism is not the answer the problem.
This kind of dick move with the manuals won't do them any good,
It also won't do them any real harm. Oh no! Some obscure Australian website no longer can have downloads for Toshiba manuals. I'm sure they'll lose TENS of sales over this!
You wrongfully presume these 250,000 are all software patents. Many of them relate to hardware technology.
Because having access to manuals on a site that probably next to none of their customers have ever heard is the only way that anyone can use a Toshiba laptop?
The site is probably doing nothing for them. It's doubtful that even a tiny fraction of 1% of their customers will have ever heard of the site or will hear this news.
It always amazes me how "power users" can actually stand the MacOS X desktop, but I guess everybody is different.
Because not all of us are configuration ricers?
Get your facts correct. The bill that gave the telcos immunity passed in July 2008 before Obama was elected. Though he did later defend that bill as president. This was after the House caved to Bush after previously passing a bill that would have not granted immunity..
Well as long as you ignore that all the legacy x86 software that is still running today wasn't going to be ported to Itanium. People would have just stuck to x86 rather than spending billions on porting and rebuying working software.
It's because they spent a shit ton of money porting software to it. They don't want to have to incur that cost again to port away.