It's great that their union is so powerful that it can disrupt commerce worldwide. That just means that, like the Mob, they've become experts in extortion.
Ok. Except that their extortion is not based on threats of physical violence. The PMI is also so powerful that it can disrupt commerce wordlwide, and by your logic, just as Moblike.
My first comment was "maybe they make too much money." But I can see no reason why it's morally better for the PMI to be raking in cash from their monopoly than the longshoremen. It's all a big clusterfuck. The work stoppage was because the two monopolies disagreed about how to best rip off American consumers.
That's the other thing that everyone says when they want to paint the longshoremen in a bad light. And there's an easy answer to that one too: The longshoremen were happy to use new and better technologies in their ports, so long as they got a peice of the action. The PMA wanted to increase productivity and decrease headcount at the same time, and the longshoremen wanted raises.
It's two monopolies vying for cash. Anyone who picks a side is selling something.
In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money.
Maybe they make too much money. But ports shut down because of a lock-out, not a strike. Everyone that writes about this and wants to paint them in a bad light casually fails to mention that. If the Pacific Maritime Association feels that the Longshoremen's Union has too much of a stranglehold on the ports, perhaps they should consider that the PMA has too much of a stranglehold on the ports. Monopolies suck. Amen. One monopoly has managed to take money from the other monopoly. You think consumer prices would fall if the PMA managed to break the union?
They will soon cut off the Mac BU's ability to update Office v.X and force users to purchase the *new* Mac Office suite: Virtual PC and Office for Windows
Both Pepsi and McDonald's are paying Apple's retail price of 99 cents per song, sources say. And McDonald's has arranged to buy up to a billion songs to meet customer demand.
Uh... that's like 10x the amount of money they spend on the burger itself. I wish they'd just give me better food.
How many/.ers will joke about hijackers using this software to rehearse crashing into buildings minutes ahead of time? Also, include jokes about people that may be considered terrorists if they do poorly at the flight sim.
P.S. They could (under some circumstances) also clarify the boundary between their main product and the part that uses GPLed code so that they did meet the terms of the GPL.
In this particular case, I think it would be easy. They could probably package the GPLed functionality into its own executable. All the parameters involved could easily be passed as arguments.
Then they could release the code for that binary, but not the one for their main product.
Right. They may remedy the situation by releasing all their code under the GPL. However, they don't have to. Instead, they can cut the GPLed code out of their product. Since this is pretty clearly a tacked on feature, the likely course of action is totally clear cut:
They will stop shipping their current version of the software. The next version will either not have iTerm-like functionality, or they will get similar code from some other source.
They don't have to release their code to anyone. They may have to pay damages if they get sued, due to the copyright violation that they have already done.
Of course that does the trick. You aren't allowed to ship someone else's code except under their license. If they are violating the GPL, then they must stop shipping, and pay damages if they get sued. Nothing, however, forces them to open their own code.
Perhaps that is because you're listening to everyone on Slashdot. Many of the assholes posting yesterday aren't posting today, and vice versa.
Sure, between both of them, it careens. So ignore morons. In that last story, many of the highest rated posts were people smacking them down. Don't worry about it.
The fault with the GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, and Perl logos is that they AREN'T FRIGGING LOGOS. They're mascots.
Logos should be much, much simpler than that. The OSI logo is good in that regard. The only reason you have no idea what the OSI logo looks like is because it never gets used, because OSI people are not zealots, and they don't have advertising dollars (</flamebait>).
This logo is almost simple enough. I like the glider idea. Ditch the grid around it. Just the five dots is fine. If you like the reference to pixels, then make it five pixels. But no grid. Think of the CitiGroup logo. Or Nike. Or Amazon. So simple that they could go anywhere, in any ad, and all of a sudden you know that it's for Citi, Nike, Amazon.
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Heh. Can you think of something more frequently stolen than Gillette razor blades?
Obviously that would be a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Oranges. RAIO. You may, at your convenience, refer to it as a boxed RAIO.
No. I'm suggesting that we shouldn't be using our bandwidth for analog video. We should be using it for doing new things with TCP/IP.
It's great that their union is so powerful that it can disrupt commerce worldwide. That just means that, like the Mob, they've become experts in extortion.
Ok. Except that their extortion is not based on threats of physical violence. The PMI is also so powerful that it can disrupt commerce wordlwide, and by your logic, just as Moblike.
My first comment was "maybe they make too much money." But I can see no reason why it's morally better for the PMI to be raking in cash from their monopoly than the longshoremen. It's all a big clusterfuck. The work stoppage was because the two monopolies disagreed about how to best rip off American consumers.
And maybe we could use all that bandwidth for something that's actually productive.
That's the other thing that everyone says when they want to paint the longshoremen in a bad light. And there's an easy answer to that one too: The longshoremen were happy to use new and better technologies in their ports, so long as they got a peice of the action. The PMA wanted to increase productivity and decrease headcount at the same time, and the longshoremen wanted raises.
It's two monopolies vying for cash. Anyone who picks a side is selling something.
8) West Coast longshoremen
In early 2002, West Coast ports shut down as the longshoremen's union fought to preserve generous health-care benefits that would make most Americans drool. The union didn't demand much in wage hikes for good reason: Its members already were making a boatload of money.
Maybe they make too much money. But ports shut down because of a lock-out, not a strike. Everyone that writes about this and wants to paint them in a bad light casually fails to mention that. If the Pacific Maritime Association feels that the Longshoremen's Union has too much of a stranglehold on the ports, perhaps they should consider that the PMA has too much of a stranglehold on the ports. Monopolies suck. Amen. One monopoly has managed to take money from the other monopoly. You think consumer prices would fall if the PMA managed to break the union?
Hopefully they've gotten over the fact that it's not the OS 9 Finder.
That whining went on a little too long.
They will soon cut off the Mac BU's ability to update Office v.X and force users to purchase the *new* Mac Office suite: Virtual PC and Office for Windows
I think you meant to say "Microsoft Word 6.0"
Both Pepsi and McDonald's are paying Apple's retail price of 99 cents per song, sources say. And McDonald's has arranged to buy up to a billion songs to meet customer demand.
Uh... that's like 10x the amount of money they spend on the burger itself. I wish they'd just give me better food.
How many /.ers will joke about hijackers using this software to rehearse crashing into buildings minutes ahead of time? Also, include jokes about people that may be considered terrorists if they do poorly at the flight sim.
My money is on 10 separate top level jokes.
Or "8.4 billion miles in light hours" for a more human-understandable figure.
The fuel is for communicating, not for moving.
There's no friction in space. It can travel forever in its current direction. When the fuel runs out in 2020, we won't be able to hear from it.
Some software updates reappear until you reboot.
Ah hah. Got it.
P.S. They could (under some circumstances) also clarify the boundary between their main product and the part that uses GPLed code so that they did meet the terms of the GPL.
In this particular case, I think it would be easy. They could probably package the GPLed functionality into its own executable. All the parameters involved could easily be passed as arguments.
Then they could release the code for that binary, but not the one for their main product.
It might be that the phrase is in web pages that link to the page in question.
Right. They may remedy the situation by releasing all their code under the GPL. However, they don't have to. Instead, they can cut the GPLed code out of their product. Since this is pretty clearly a tacked on feature, the likely course of action is totally clear cut:
They will stop shipping their current version of the software. The next version will either not have iTerm-like functionality, or they will get similar code from some other source.
They don't have to release their code to anyone. They may have to pay damages if they get sued, due to the copyright violation that they have already done.
Of course that does the trick. You aren't allowed to ship someone else's code except under their license. If they are violating the GPL, then they must stop shipping, and pay damages if they get sued. Nothing, however, forces them to open their own code.
Perhaps that is because you're listening to everyone on Slashdot. Many of the assholes posting yesterday aren't posting today, and vice versa.
Sure, between both of them, it careens. So ignore morons. In that last story, many of the highest rated posts were people smacking them down. Don't worry about it.
Yeah. It's good.
We PC gamer types don't get Halo because we want mouselook & a keyboard, and it's slow like molasses.
These are not disadvantages for console gamers.
Imagine Quake I with a console controller and no running. Now Halo seems rad in comparison.
In the articles I've read, the folks who found the bug have been working with Apple for the past 30 days. (Contrary to other respondents)
Still, I agree with you completely. Let Apple get its other foot inside the fucking door. Then start the talk, talk, talk.
That was my joke.
The fault with the GNU, Linux, FreeBSD, and Perl logos is that they AREN'T FRIGGING LOGOS. They're mascots.
Logos should be much, much simpler than that. The OSI logo is good in that regard. The only reason you have no idea what the OSI logo looks like is because it never gets used, because OSI people are not zealots, and they don't have advertising dollars (</flamebait>).
This logo is almost simple enough. I like the glider idea. Ditch the grid around it. Just the five dots is fine. If you like the reference to pixels, then make it five pixels. But no grid. Think of the CitiGroup logo. Or Nike. Or Amazon. So simple that they could go anywhere, in any ad, and all of a sudden you know that it's for Citi, Nike, Amazon.