That's certainly not true in Slovenia (which is a part of EU). As a company you have a right to collect only data that you actually need and get to keep parts that you need for as long as you have to and not any longer.
You certainly have to delete personal data when request by owner in reasonable amount of time unless you have legal obligations to keep it.
I'd say probably not. You don't trademark a specific product, you trademark categories of products. And category doesn't mean phones either, it's rather less specific than that. So as far as law goes, there's absolutely no problem, if you use your trademark for different stuff as long as you use it for categories you were granted.
The fact that Apple couldn't register iPhone in time is a problem only for Apple and doesn't change anything. It was clear for 10 years that you can't make a communication like device with a name iPhone without infringing the trademark and if Apple doesn't like that, then it's their problem. They can either reach an agreement with trademark owner or go and find some other name.
You mean the ones Gates created and sustains of his own free will?
Navision was a successful company bought by Microsoft (last year if my memory serves me right, but could be wrong about that). Gates (and Microsoft) hasn't created it and even less sustained it. Their own work did that.
You mean the ones Gates himself employs?
Yes. As so many have already explained, this is a disgusting threat because where software is produced doesn't have any correlation to legal protection it has in market in which it sells.
However, it's not true you're trapped to a single brand of player. I don't own an iPod, but I do own a bunch of CD players which play iTunes songs burned to CD just fine.
Well, it's not that simple. Phone makers and cellular service providers are much more dependant on each other. You provided one example yourself: most people buy phone attached to some plan from service provider.
This means that service providers are major sales channel for phone makers and therefore have a lot to say about what kind of phones will be sold (hence produced). E.g. SonyEricsson created a special phone just for Vodafone (V800).
The cost of producing simple phone is not that much different from the cost of producing a more feature-laden one. However, the difference in perceived value, which is the basis for determining the price people are willing to pay, is quite large. This means that fancy phones have a higher profit margin (which is not all that big anyway).
Hence, you don't get cheap simple phones, because not enough people would be willing to pay more or less the same price for a lot less features.
I'm not saying this is true, but I think that they (phone makers and service providers) believe so.
I know people have talked about this before, but why aren't the cell phone companies listening?
Because as you say it yourself, you want to pay them LESS. It might still be good idea to follow your market if it's large enough, but obviuosly they don't think it is.
The point isn't whether it hurt you or me, the point is whether what they did was illegal. It was.
We can probably argue for days how different actions led to where we are, but it's really about the rule of law, which is something that we all were supposed to stand for.
You might disagree with current law, which is fine and you are or at least should be free to work for its change. However, laws shouldn't be used only when we like or against whom we dislike.
That markets might have changed has nothing to do with it. We punish murder even though it won't do anything good for the victim. We punish murderer, so him and others wouldn't do it again.
Living in a country, which fairly recently came to free market and still has problems with the rule of law, I can tell you there's little that damages society more than letting illegal behaviour slide by.
A few nitpicks here: first, countries don't use measurment systems at all. Secondly, while it's true that Amiercans, Britons, etc. prefer to use the traditional measurement system that evolved out of Roman units, this is an issue of the rest of the world making up a new standard to challenge existing standards, not the reverse.
No, but they do choose one as a country-wide standard. I guess that's what the poster meant and it's true that a lot of countries (for example practically whole Europe) use metric system. I don't know about you, but most people have ten fingers so decimal systems tend to be a bit easier on them.
This isn't actually correct. "Football" only refers to Soccer in the British Isles. In the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, it refers to a game derived from rugby. In most other countries, English isn't the dominant language, so neither "football" nor "soccer" would be used to describe the sport. Granted, in some cases a version of the word "football" was incorporated into the local language, such as the Spanish "fútbol".
Again, true they don't use the word football, but most of them do use the word with the same meaning and again I think that's what poster meant.
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Yes, but if you read the article, it clearly said you could refill it in the store by entering PIN.
So, if you don't have enough on it, but have enough on the account, just refill it on the spot and use it then.
I spent seven months doing civil service for Slovenian association of blind people and it was a really eye-opening experience.
First, and less important, bird watching and target-shooting are among hobbies of blind people. Yes, I was surprised to learn that too. Bad examples, but I know what you mean.
Second, I do understand your point, but think about this from different perspective. There are around 7000 registered people who are either blind or visually impaired in Slovenia, which has a population of 2 million. How many would be willing to spend time and money to make sites accessible for them? I can even give you an answer to this, because lacking legislation that USA has in this regard, the answer is pretty much noone does.
I believe it's important for society that nobody is a second class citizen. Sometimes this means that majority of us have to make some effort for that. And if sensibility of public is not enough, than it's good if there's at least legislation to push us all in the right direction.
Well, in the case of Exchange and co. it's not so much interoperation as integration, which is not a bad thing either.
The catch is of course that it's hard to achieve that out in the open world of free/open software, since no one has any leverage over the other. This is one of those points coming from Microsoft, that do have some truth in it. Of course, the other problem there is that you can't achieve the same level of integration because of incomplete/misleading/missing documentation, but that's beside the point.
My point is that going for interoperation/integration is not without a "cost". It's similar to PC and Mac situation. You can either go for relatively bigger freedom and lower price or you can choose a more integrated system.
To achieve interoperability with something else, you have to agree on interfaces (whatever that means in particular context) and it follows from this directly that you are not completely free to choose and create them as you please and so you added another limitation on the list that you have to take account of when you design and create. How much you are limited depends on how complex the interface is and how close integration you want. And there are other issues you have to consider as well (limited time and your personal energy for example).
And achieve what? That people who are interested in it can't actually get it? Or will you return it so quickly, it will be obvious you haven't read it? Will you borrow just one such book or you'll prepare a list and go through it?
I seriously doubt that anyone doing serious profiling would get stuck on just one book, so you'd have to borrow more.
And which books would you check out? How do you know which are interesting? If you were a neonazi, you'd probably OWN a copy Mein Kampf, not borrow it from library.
It's the usage pattern that is interesting, not individual selections and it's pretty hard to fake that if you are not seriously interested in the subject.
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My E65 lasts a week easily, but I'm not a heavy phone user. I would say it qualifies as a smart phone.
That's certainly not true in Slovenia (which is a part of EU). As a company you have a right to collect only data that you actually need and get to keep parts that you need for as long as you have to and not any longer.
You certainly have to delete personal data when request by owner in reasonable amount of time unless you have legal obligations to keep it.
So what? Have you ever trademarked anything?
I'd say probably not. You don't trademark a specific product, you trademark categories of products. And category doesn't mean phones either, it's rather less specific than that. So as far as law goes, there's absolutely no problem, if you use your trademark for different stuff as long as you use it for categories you were granted.
The fact that Apple couldn't register iPhone in time is a problem only for Apple and doesn't change anything. It was clear for 10 years that you can't make a communication like device with a name iPhone without infringing the trademark and if Apple doesn't like that, then it's their problem. They can either reach an agreement with trademark owner or go and find some other name.
There are people who use Windows 98 and find it sufficient for their needs. That doesn't make it any less irrelevant or GENERALLY useless.
I'm not saying the same is true for NetBSD. I wouldn't know, since I don't use it. I'm just saying your line of thinking is off.
NT 3.51 was anything but rock solid. In fact it ate my work so many times I finally gave up and moved to Linux.
I've never moved back.
I do agree NT4 was more flaky.
Shorter version of same text: Apple sucks, because it doesn't have games I want to play.
My phone didn't.
Navision was a successful company bought by Microsoft (last year if my memory serves me right, but could be wrong about that). Gates (and Microsoft) hasn't created it and even less sustained it. Their own work did that.
You mean the ones Gates himself employs?
Yes. As so many have already explained, this is a disgusting threat because where software is produced doesn't have any correlation to legal protection it has in market in which it sells.
True, nobody can.
However, it's not true you're trapped to a single brand of player. I don't own an iPod, but I do own a bunch of CD players which play iTunes songs burned to CD just fine.
Well, it's not that simple. Phone makers and cellular service providers are much more dependant on each other. You provided one example yourself: most people buy phone attached to some plan from service provider.
This means that service providers are major sales channel for phone makers and therefore have a lot to say about what kind of phones will be sold (hence produced). E.g. SonyEricsson created a special phone just for Vodafone (V800).
The cost of producing simple phone is not that much different from the cost of producing a more feature-laden one. However, the difference in perceived value, which is the basis for determining the price people are willing to pay, is quite large. This means that fancy phones have a higher profit margin (which is not all that big anyway).
Hence, you don't get cheap simple phones, because not enough people would be willing to pay more or less the same price for a lot less features.
I'm not saying this is true, but I think that they (phone makers and service providers) believe so.
I know people have talked about this before, but why aren't the cell phone companies listening?
Because as you say it yourself, you want to pay them LESS. It might still be good idea to follow your market if it's large enough, but obviuosly they don't think it is.
The point isn't whether it hurt you or me, the point is whether what they did was illegal. It was.
We can probably argue for days how different actions led to where we are, but it's really about the rule of law, which is something that we all were supposed to stand for.
You might disagree with current law, which is fine and you are or at least should be free to work for its change. However, laws shouldn't be used only when we like or against whom we dislike.
That markets might have changed has nothing to do with it. We punish murder even though it won't do anything good for the victim. We punish murderer, so him and others wouldn't do it again.
Living in a country, which fairly recently came to free market and still has problems with the rule of law, I can tell you there's little that damages society more than letting illegal behaviour slide by.
New iMacs don't have Firewire and you can't put it in there. Which is the reason why they may not be the best solution even for home video editing.
And I spend most of my time working on Powerbook 12", so I'm hardly anti-Apple.
No, but they do choose one as a country-wide standard. I guess that's what the poster meant and it's true that a lot of countries (for example practically whole Europe) use metric system. I don't know about you, but most people have ten fingers so decimal systems tend to be a bit easier on them.
This isn't actually correct. "Football" only refers to Soccer in the British Isles. In the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, it refers to a game derived from rugby. In most other countries, English isn't the dominant language, so neither "football" nor "soccer" would be used to describe the sport. Granted, in some cases a version of the word "football" was incorporated into the local language, such as the Spanish "fútbol".
Again, true they don't use the word football, but most of them do use the word with the same meaning and again I think that's what poster meant.
Yes, but if you read the article, it clearly said you could refill it in the store by entering PIN.
So, if you don't have enough on it, but have enough on the account, just refill it on the spot and use it then.
Sorry about that. This happens if you speak in a language that you don't know all that well.
I spent seven months doing civil service for Slovenian association of blind people and it was a really eye-opening experience.
First, and less important, bird watching and target-shooting are among hobbies of blind people. Yes, I was surprised to learn that too. Bad examples, but I know what you mean.
Second, I do understand your point, but think about this from different perspective. There are around 7000 registered people who are either blind or visually impaired in Slovenia, which has a population of 2 million. How many would be willing to spend time and money to make sites accessible for them? I can even give you an answer to this, because lacking legislation that USA has in this regard, the answer is pretty much noone does.
I believe it's important for society that nobody is a second class citizen. Sometimes this means that majority of us have to make some effort for that. And if sensibility of public is not enough, than it's good if there's at least legislation to push us all in the right direction.
Well, in the case of Exchange and co. it's not so much interoperation as integration, which is not a bad thing either.
The catch is of course that it's hard to achieve that out in the open world of free/open software, since no one has any leverage over the other. This is one of those points coming from Microsoft, that do have some truth in it. Of course, the other problem there is that you can't achieve the same level of integration because of incomplete/misleading/missing documentation, but that's beside the point.
My point is that going for interoperation/integration is not without a "cost". It's similar to PC and Mac situation. You can either go for relatively bigger freedom and lower price or you can choose a more integrated system.
To achieve interoperability with something else, you have to agree on interfaces (whatever that means in particular context) and it follows from this directly that you are not completely free to choose and create them as you please and so you added another limitation on the list that you have to take account of when you design and create. How much you are limited depends on how complex the interface is and how close integration you want. And there are other issues you have to consider as well (limited time and your personal energy for example).
It's a matter of choice.
And achieve what? That people who are interested in it can't actually get it? Or will you return it so quickly, it will be obvious you haven't read it? Will you borrow just one such book or you'll prepare a list and go through it?
I seriously doubt that anyone doing serious profiling would get stuck on just one book, so you'd have to borrow more.
And which books would you check out? How do you know which are interesting? If you were a neonazi, you'd probably OWN a copy Mein Kampf, not borrow it from library.
It's the usage pattern that is interesting, not individual selections and it's pretty hard to fake that if you are not seriously interested in the subject.