That's idiotic. They can limit the terms under which you can distribute the work, but not the terms under which you can use the work. What if they say you can only listen to the CD with your left ear, and you must plug your right ear whenever you listen to it. Are you morally obligated to follow these instructions? If you buy the product, you should be morally permitted to use it however you want.
Here's a better analogy. You write a book. You don't like people who ride the bus to work. So you include in your book a clause that says you are selling the right to read the book anywhere except the bus, and that reading the book on a bus is a violation of the license. Someone who paid for the book and paid for a bus ticket has figured out that they can get away with reading your book on the bus if they put a comic book in front of it.
This is silly; the real reason Apple doesn't want a lot of people putting this stuff on other hardware is they don't want to support it and they don't want Apple's image to be tainted by Apple software running on crappy hardware. I don't think they care about a few people doing this if they know what they're doing, but they don't want every kid whose parents buys them a new Dell telling all their friends "I found this 1337 s173 that lets me put OSX on my computer and makes it like ten times cooler but without games, d00dz!" So they're fighting back with poetry rather than an iron fist. But the bottom line is I don't believe Apple or anyone else should be allowed to set the terms of how a paying consumer may use the product the consumer paid for. If I pay for OSX and I find a way to install it on my girlfriend, Apple should have no legal or moral authority to tell me not to. As long as I don't pirate the software or steal the code, the most they should be allowed to do is spew poetry.
This is just like the McDonald's lawsuit. Sued over hot coffee. So what's the story this time, the Take Two shareholders are whining because the coffee served at the shareholder's meeting is too hot?
I guess the collapsing thing is a Camino feature then, because I don't see the gaps you are talking about. As for sites hosting their own ads, there simply aren't enough of those to annoy me.
I block ads at etc/hosts... it doesn't matter what browser I use then. I'd like to see Camino able to add sites to the etc/hosts file on the fly using contextual menu choices, but other than that, it's easy and effective to block ads at the source.
"The researchers think their work bolsters the case that global warming due to human activity has created a change in climate unlike anything seen in more than a millennium." A snide comment about the sun really doesn't refute this.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is it with these Pittsburgh professors repudiating the open source core of Mac OS X? Darwin is a solid UNIX foundation for a great operating system; if these professors can't see that, they must not understand how intelligently designed it is!
Uhhhh, you should take a look at the links before you say this. It is not just clerics in Malaysia saying these things. Hell, look just at jihadists if you like, and you will find that '''even among jihadists''' there are strong, notable, and widely read voices calling for an end to terrorism and specifically rejecting bin Laden and Zawahiri. Read Fawaz Gerges' latest book on this topic if you want to read excerpts of such things, which don't widely appear in English.
That said, you're quite right that the problem is the encouragement from leaders in these countries and demagogues who whip up Muslim anger and focus it in the wrong direction. "Death to America" is a standard chant for schoolchildren in Iran. Illiteracy is rampant, and the arguments for rational thought are being made in books, articles, etc., not in fiery speeches to angry mobs. And the demagogues prefer to keep illiteracy rampant and to keep whipping up riotous protests because it distracts attention away from the corrupt governments that prefer an illiterate, easily swayed population.
There is a lot of anger in the Muslim world for very good reasons. It is easy for demagogues to focus that anger on a cartoon. But the anger you see is about a lot more than the cartoon.
We need to take a look at the Muslim shaykhs and clerics and the governments who often tell them what to say in their sermons. Getting people whipped up into a frenzy over a freaking cartoon -- one that otherwise would not have circulated beyond Denmark -- is a great way to distract attention from what they really should be in a frenzy about: the corruption of the family dynasties that rule many of these countries, the widespread poverty alongside the decadent wealth of certain families, the refusal of these governments to do anything to diversify their economies, the blatant hypocrisy regarding Muslim laws of behavior by many of the same leaders, etc. Of course, the media did a lot to help these demagogues spread the word, and once the protests started spreading, further media coverage is a self-fulfilling prophesy. But we can't ignore that this "crisis" was manipulated from the very beginning by self-serving forces.
Now you're making an even bigger asshat of yourself. Your first claim was that she was being disruptive when she was asked to leave. Now you back off that and support the claim that simply wearing a t shirt is disruptive -- a claim that equally fits the "support the troops" shirt. And the "biased" source has a direct quote from Sheehan. If you have evidence that she is misrepresenting herself, or that something different happened, please present it rather than whining about "bias." You don't like Sheehan, which is fine, but you are just making things up about this incident, and you can't support your claim with anything other than your own "speculation" based on '''other''' incidents involving her.
Exactly. And easily pirated photoshop keeps kids away from learning the gimp, so when they do get jobs at high profile graphics outfits they will ask their employers for copys of photoshop on their workstations rather than saying "ah, don't bother spending the money, I prefer to use the gimp...."
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That's idiotic. They can limit the terms under which you can distribute the work, but not the terms under which you can use the work. What if they say you can only listen to the CD with your left ear, and you must plug your right ear whenever you listen to it. Are you morally obligated to follow these instructions? If you buy the product, you should be morally permitted to use it however you want.
This is silly; the real reason Apple doesn't want a lot of people putting this stuff on other hardware is they don't want to support it and they don't want Apple's image to be tainted by Apple software running on crappy hardware. I don't think they care about a few people doing this if they know what they're doing, but they don't want every kid whose parents buys them a new Dell telling all their friends "I found this 1337 s173 that lets me put OSX on my computer and makes it like ten times cooler but without games, d00dz!" So they're fighting back with poetry rather than an iron fist. But the bottom line is I don't believe Apple or anyone else should be allowed to set the terms of how a paying consumer may use the product the consumer paid for. If I pay for OSX and I find a way to install it on my girlfriend, Apple should have no legal or moral authority to tell me not to. As long as I don't pirate the software or steal the code, the most they should be allowed to do is spew poetry.
This is just like the McDonald's lawsuit. Sued over hot coffee. So what's the story this time, the Take Two shareholders are whining because the coffee served at the shareholder's meeting is too hot?
I think he writes about dogs now.
I seem to recall Jon Katz doing just that several years ago, with everyone's posts. I doubt the book sold many copies, but still....
try this.
Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia
Posted by HueyLong on 11:32 Friday 8 March 1935
from the bad-sci-fi-radio-show-ideas dept.
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I guess the collapsing thing is a Camino feature then, because I don't see the gaps you are talking about. As for sites hosting their own ads, there simply aren't enough of those to annoy me.
I block ads at etc/hosts... it doesn't matter what browser I use then. I'd like to see Camino able to add sites to the etc/hosts file on the fly using contextual menu choices, but other than that, it's easy and effective to block ads at the source.
It's much snappier!
"The researchers think their work bolsters the case that global warming due to human activity has created a change in climate unlike anything seen in more than a millennium." A snide comment about the sun really doesn't refute this.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is it with these Pittsburgh professors repudiating the open source core of Mac OS X? Darwin is a solid UNIX foundation for a great operating system; if these professors can't see that, they must not understand how intelligently designed it is!
Sure! I'll rush over to kuro5hin with this right away!
true, but will it have support for LAME?
an old joke, perhaps, but quite pertinent....
That said, you're quite right that the problem is the encouragement from leaders in these countries and demagogues who whip up Muslim anger and focus it in the wrong direction. "Death to America" is a standard chant for schoolchildren in Iran. Illiteracy is rampant, and the arguments for rational thought are being made in books, articles, etc., not in fiery speeches to angry mobs. And the demagogues prefer to keep illiteracy rampant and to keep whipping up riotous protests because it distracts attention away from the corrupt governments that prefer an illiterate, easily swayed population.
There is a lot of anger in the Muslim world for very good reasons. It is easy for demagogues to focus that anger on a cartoon. But the anger you see is about a lot more than the cartoon.
We need to take a look at the Muslim shaykhs and clerics and the governments who often tell them what to say in their sermons. Getting people whipped up into a frenzy over a freaking cartoon -- one that otherwise would not have circulated beyond Denmark -- is a great way to distract attention from what they really should be in a frenzy about: the corruption of the family dynasties that rule many of these countries, the widespread poverty alongside the decadent wealth of certain families, the refusal of these governments to do anything to diversify their economies, the blatant hypocrisy regarding Muslim laws of behavior by many of the same leaders, etc. Of course, the media did a lot to help these demagogues spread the word, and once the protests started spreading, further media coverage is a self-fulfilling prophesy. But we can't ignore that this "crisis" was manipulated from the very beginning by self-serving forces.
Now you're making an even bigger asshat of yourself. Your first claim was that she was being disruptive when she was asked to leave. Now you back off that and support the claim that simply wearing a t shirt is disruptive -- a claim that equally fits the "support the troops" shirt. And the "biased" source has a direct quote from Sheehan. If you have evidence that she is misrepresenting herself, or that something different happened, please present it rather than whining about "bias." You don't like Sheehan, which is fine, but you are just making things up about this incident, and you can't support your claim with anything other than your own "speculation" based on '''other''' incidents involving her.
maybe they did get it right but then it got "edited."
Isn't it Linus who should be sucking his thumb and holding a blanket?
Introducing the iPuke! The latest iPod offering from Apple, the iPuke is a 1G iPod shuffle that comes pre-loaded with Celine Dion songs!
They just put all the robots on these barges, and let them fart in the sun's general direction....
What you fail to understand is that they are working with exceptionally large values of 720.
Exactly. And easily pirated photoshop keeps kids away from learning the gimp, so when they do get jobs at high profile graphics outfits they will ask their employers for copys of photoshop on their workstations rather than saying "ah, don't bother spending the money, I prefer to use the gimp...."