The 9th circuit court makes more rulings than any other circuit, so it also has more rulings overturned than any other court. In terms of percentages, they are not more overruled than any other court.
As for the chances of the Supreme Court overturning this... Has this Supreme Court overturned *any* rulings favorable to corporations?
Really? Afraid to move back to the US? What kind of habits, lifestyle, and hobbies do you have that would put you in the path of police to get arrested and have all these horrible terrible things happen to you?
1) True. The right thing to do is to go open source from day one. 2) Being verifiably honest is a competitive advantage. 3) Perhaps, but a little bit of support time is a small price to pay for free development. It's not going to cost you more than it would have to hire someone to write it. And concerning the 2nd part of your answer, do you have an example of that happening? 4) I think the OP was asking for good reasons, otherwise we could have answered him simply with "Because PHBs are assholes". That is the only real reason. 5) Nobody knows whether or not a given advertisement causes me to buy an item either, but we are still saturated with advertising. An open source driver is another bullet point marketing can use to sway people.
1) You must have already written something up when hiring someone to write those algorithms the first time. Use that. 2) Lying by marketers is never acceptable. If I can verify your claims by looking at your source code you have an instant advantage over competitors who make unverifiable claims. 3) So how does this jibe with point 5? If you have a new swarm of customers trying to get support for your product, doesn't that prove that there's a financial case for opening the product? 4) Fair enough, but I think the OP was asking for non-bullshit reasons. 5) Here's another business case: You save money on development by having volunteers do the coding you'd have had to pay for otherwise. You also save money on support, as the open source driver will work better, and there will be a community forum where people will be able to get support.
1. Licensing. Our drivers include licensed code from at least two other companies - code that implements algorithms seen as proprietary and valuable by those companies.
Release the rest, and provide descriptions of the missing algorithms. They'll be reimplemented in a week.
if their drivers were closed, we would not have the equivalent opportunity to prove that their liars were worse than our liars.
So don't lie.
3. Support. If we publish source, we will end up fielding all kinds of questions from all kinds of people about all kinds of aspects of our product.
Really? Do you think end users are really going to contact Broadcom? Or are they just going to go to the Ubuntu forums like they have been.
4. Security.
We all know that's bullshit.
5. Financial. There is no business case to be made to disclose this proprietary information.
But there is. Before today, if I wanted a wifi router I would only buy one with Atheros chips. Now I will seriously consider a Broadcom based product. I had never run ATI cards before they open sourced their drivers in 2007. Now I have an ATI card.
So, when corporations are more powerful than the government what protects our freedom of speech then? Nothing? Do you think there might be a problem with that?
Why do you assume that's not a deal breaker for anyone? Every console ever has been hacked, people wouldn't do that if they didn't object to being restricted.
That's more the loser's staples. Some of us like to apply the typical geek problem solving techniques and eye for quality in the kitchen as well as the computer room.
Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type."
By giving me partial results while I'm typing, you distract me, slow down my typing even more, and delay the good results I'll get from a complete query.
It may not have, it may have been saved. Or, after it's spent on intellectual property, it will be spent elsewhere again. Spending money on a non-scarce good is an extra transaction either way you look at it.
It's never been really about protecting intellectual content on the PS3. It's always been about how much money Sony can squeeze out of a customer
That's what "protecting intellectual content" is all about. Copyright exists to force people to spend more money than they would have otherwise, thereby inflating the GDP.
What VM do you use to virtualize 98? What video drivers do you use that work well with the display device provided by the VM? I've never gotten virtualized Windows 98 to work at an acceptable speed (at least as fast as my P200). I'd love to know how you do it.
But enjoying physically and psychologically harmful working conditions day after day and believing (correctly or otherwise) that there's no way out is likely more harmful than hearing one lie about how pretty your eyes are.
So provide prostitutes with a safe working environment and career counseling.
And johns ought to ask whether it's okay to pay to support that environment rather than playing the pseudo-libertarian "no physical force => legal => moral" card.
Johns aren't at fault for the harm caused by prostitution, legislators are.
You can't equate prostitution with serving fast food. The former carries all sorts of risks, even when it's a licensed and regulated brothel. You think every customer is going to have a HIV and STD test first?
Ok, compare prostitution to steel workers, coal miners, or fishermen. There are lots of dangerous jobs. Either ban them AND prostituion, ban neither, or accept that prostitution is illegal for reasons of sexual morality and not safety.
Those girls are poor this is how they live. They don't love sex anymore than you love working.
Sounds like a job. What's wrong with that? We allow people to do all sorts of awful, dangerous things for money, why not sex? Poor working conditions are a case for increased regulation, not prohibition.
There is *no* reason for prostitution to be illegal except for a perverse notion of sexual morality associated with religion. None.
Right, because no one cares about old games apart from some very old school gamers. A follow up to an old game is something that no one mainstream would ever care about, right? I mean look at what happened when they released successors to Super Mario Bros., StarCraft, Fallout, and Street Fighter.
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Pump and dump. Figures.
The 9th circuit court makes more rulings than any other circuit, so it also has more rulings overturned than any other court. In terms of percentages, they are not more overruled than any other court.
As for the chances of the Supreme Court overturning this... Has this Supreme Court overturned *any* rulings favorable to corporations?
1. Making the LOSER pay for all lawsuit costs. This will, overnight, end all frivolus lawsuits.
It will also end all valid suits, where the plaintiff doesn't want to risk a multi-million dollar bill should he fail.
All damages should be capped at about $10,000
Making it quite profitable to rip people off for more than $10K.
3. Disband ALL unions *by force*.
Yes, let's end the right to peaceably assemble and force our workers into involuntary servitude. That's the American way.
Only by doing AT LEAST these three things can we ever expect jobs to return to the USA and for our position as leader in the world to return.
If that's the cost of being a world leader, I hope the US is never again a world leader.
It's the cops who want a system to identify the rioters. Seems logical to me, Jim.
Sure, can we also use it do identify the cops who instigated the riots?
Really? Afraid to move back to the US? What kind of habits, lifestyle, and hobbies do you have that would put you in the path of police to get arrested and have all these horrible terrible things happen to you?
I smoke pot.
1) True. The right thing to do is to go open source from day one.
2) Being verifiably honest is a competitive advantage.
3) Perhaps, but a little bit of support time is a small price to pay for free development. It's not going to cost you more than it would have to hire someone to write it. And concerning the 2nd part of your answer, do you have an example of that happening?
4) I think the OP was asking for good reasons, otherwise we could have answered him simply with "Because PHBs are assholes". That is the only real reason.
5) Nobody knows whether or not a given advertisement causes me to buy an item either, but we are still saturated with advertising. An open source driver is another bullet point marketing can use to sway people.
1) You must have already written something up when hiring someone to write those algorithms the first time. Use that.
2) Lying by marketers is never acceptable. If I can verify your claims by looking at your source code you have an instant advantage over competitors who make unverifiable claims.
3) So how does this jibe with point 5? If you have a new swarm of customers trying to get support for your product, doesn't that prove that there's a financial case for opening the product?
4) Fair enough, but I think the OP was asking for non-bullshit reasons.
5) Here's another business case: You save money on development by having volunteers do the coding you'd have had to pay for otherwise. You also save money on support, as the open source driver will work better, and there will be a community forum where people will be able to get support.
1. Licensing. Our drivers include licensed code from at least two other companies - code that implements algorithms seen as proprietary and valuable by those companies.
Release the rest, and provide descriptions of the missing algorithms. They'll be reimplemented in a week.
if their drivers were closed, we would not have the equivalent opportunity to prove that their liars were worse than our liars.
So don't lie.
3. Support. If we publish source, we will end up fielding all kinds of questions from all kinds of people about all kinds of aspects of our product.
Really? Do you think end users are really going to contact Broadcom? Or are they just going to go to the Ubuntu forums like they have been.
4. Security.
We all know that's bullshit.
5. Financial. There is no business case to be made to disclose this proprietary information.
But there is. Before today, if I wanted a wifi router I would only buy one with Atheros chips. Now I will seriously consider a Broadcom based product. I had never run ATI cards before they open sourced their drivers in 2007. Now I have an ATI card.
So, when corporations are more powerful than the government what protects our freedom of speech then? Nothing? Do you think there might be a problem with that?
Why do you assume that's not a deal breaker for anyone? Every console ever has been hacked, people wouldn't do that if they didn't object to being restricted.
quickly flip between half a dozen pages to get to the right charts, reference sheets, and examples
eBooks are searchable.
being able to scribble my illegible notes in the margins.
Good god no! Writing in books is evil.
That's more the loser's staples. Some of us like to apply the typical geek problem solving techniques and eye for quality in the kitchen as well as the computer room.
Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type."
By giving me partial results while I'm typing, you distract me, slow down my typing even more, and delay the good results I'll get from a complete query.
The real answer is that choreographed dances suck. Move however feels good, that's all that matters.
It may not have, it may have been saved. Or, after it's spent on intellectual property, it will be spent elsewhere again. Spending money on a non-scarce good is an extra transaction either way you look at it.
It's never been really about protecting intellectual content on the PS3. It's always been about how much money Sony can squeeze out of a customer
That's what "protecting intellectual content" is all about. Copyright exists to force people to spend more money than they would have otherwise, thereby inflating the GDP.
It took them long enough to break the old firmware. There's no reason to assume that breaking the new firmware will be any better.
'Just like everybody in Dubai, all they've done is made me a master of internet chicanery.'
I'd be willing to bet there are very few misconfigured wireless networks in Dubai.
What VM do you use to virtualize 98? What video drivers do you use that work well with the display device provided by the VM? I've never gotten virtualized Windows 98 to work at an acceptable speed (at least as fast as my P200). I'd love to know how you do it.
And we sure didn't need bilinear filtering. Why do people think bilinear filtering looks good? It just looks blurry.
Why would you want to emulate a console port when you could play the real thing?
But enjoying physically and psychologically harmful working conditions day after day and believing (correctly or otherwise) that there's no way out is likely more harmful than hearing one lie about how pretty your eyes are.
So provide prostitutes with a safe working environment and career counseling.
And johns ought to ask whether it's okay to pay to support that environment rather than playing the pseudo-libertarian "no physical force => legal => moral" card.
Johns aren't at fault for the harm caused by prostitution, legislators are.
You can't equate prostitution with serving fast food. The former carries all sorts of risks, even when it's a licensed and regulated brothel. You think every customer is going to have a HIV and STD test first?
Ok, compare prostitution to steel workers, coal miners, or fishermen. There are lots of dangerous jobs. Either ban them AND prostituion, ban neither, or accept that prostitution is illegal for reasons of sexual morality and not safety.
Those girls are poor this is how they live. They don't love sex anymore than you love working.
Sounds like a job. What's wrong with that? We allow people to do all sorts of awful, dangerous things for money, why not sex? Poor working conditions are a case for increased regulation, not prohibition.
There is *no* reason for prostitution to be illegal except for a perverse notion of sexual morality associated with religion. None.
Right, because no one cares about old games apart from some very old school gamers. A follow up to an old game is something that no one mainstream would ever care about, right? I mean look at what happened when they released successors to Super Mario Bros., StarCraft, Fallout, and Street Fighter.