Not really. Cereal grains do really well in certain climate regions, which, surprise, surprise, are abundant in the US. That's the reason why the US grows half the grain, not some vast illuminati-wrought conspiracy designed to keep the man down.
They can do pretty decent measurements of things like magma chamber sizes these days to get a pretty good idea on how big a volcano is going to be when it finally goes. Yellowstone is fucking huge, and most likely, will be a very big explosion when it does occur.
You may want to take a look at something like the nokia communicators, nice phones, a little bit less expensive than the iPhone, but a good amount more versatile and flexible. Something you're forgetting that there is a cost/benefit analysis to everything, and features people really want. I can do without a 2mp camera -- a camera phone is for snapshots, and I've yet to see a good flash on a camera phone. I'd rather just keep a nice 5mp digital close at hand if there's absolutely something that needs greater than 640x480. You also have to consider those of us who like a tactile keyboard. I actually like feeling the letters I'm typing; keyboards with no action annoy me. Additionally, you have to take into account things like portability of service. With the iPhone, you're stuck with cingular. With a phone like the Nokia 9500, you get a less expensive phone, that can be used with any service you want, like tmobile, or alltel, or even being able to go overseas with the same phone and buy a prepaid sim. Finally, Apple has said that their phone will be a closed box. That means no third party apps that will infringe on Apple/Cingular's business models -- no VOIP, no third party games, little to no chance of bandwidth heavy, but vital for IT, apps such as SSH clients or VNC clients. These are all things that Apple is lacking, and will probably always lack due to their agreement with Cingular.
Regarding your list of "optional" features, most of those things are available as j2me midlets already. Google maps, opera, etc are already available today, for free. Really, the iPhone is just another locked down phone, not much different than a verizon branded razr. You're stuck being spoonfed what they want you to see, and customization and versatility are frowned upon as "evil hacker" things. I don't buy locked phones; unlocked phones are far superior in terms of what they do. Apple is making just another unlocked phone.
I'm the exact opposite. I -hate- those tiny key keyboards that feel like you're going to split your fingernails on trying to type on them. They're mostly worthless since they take up most of the phone (which would be large even without them). I'll pass on that.
Yes, if you're talking about a single slab phone. The clamshell phones, like the nokia communicator, and the swivel phones, like the sidekick, are real nice for getting a good sized keyboard without sacrificing pocket bulge. Plus, they usually have a nice rubberized keyboard that is not a pain in the ass to use. Also , I have to repeat the question another replier asked. Were you using just your thumbs, or were you trying to type normally? Small keyboards really are designed as thumbboards, with the other fingers holding the device, and using more of the side of the thumb than typing like on a regular keyboard. No nailsplitting involved.
You do realize that every cell phone maker on the planet sells unlocked phones as well as vendor-locked phones, right? Apple could very easily sell an unlocked version of their phone, they're just banking on ignorant sluts who think otherwise.
Because if you only need to run one or two apps, it doesn't make much sense to have to shut down all your other apps just to run the few programs that don't run under OS X.
No. Copyright can be selectively enforced; no need to show due diligence. However, this copyright may be bogus for other reasons, especially considering that pre-1978 choreography copyrights are a lot more stringent, and Mr. Silver probably didn't do most of the steps needed.
I'm not so certain in cases like this. There are plenty of situations of comedic movies where a trademark is parodied and no such mention of licensing is made. Perhaps certain litigious parties would like people to believe that one has to file claims against every usage, regardless of how small, but precedent seems to suggest otherwise.
I'd disagree. A tip of the hat without a license would serve just as much purpose. Hell, saying nothing at all wouldn't cause any problems, all things considered. Obvious parody is something that weighs heavy in trademark rulings, so it is doubtful that any sort of acknowledgment is needed in this situation.
Hey, furries bring the funk...unfortunately, some fanboys bring more than their fair share;3. Plus, that dance may not even be copyrightable. As it was created prior to 1978, the rules on copyright are a lot different, and it seems that Mr. Silver doesn't really have a legal leg to stand on.
There are a lot of questions to be asked of the database, such as what the schema was, what the database type was, etc. Plus, they were using the old mysql set of commands in php 4, instead of the mysqli commandset in php 5, which would have also greatly increased their mysql performance. So that benchmark is just as invalid as the article's. I guess what it boils down to is YMMV.
From a very cursory glance, it looks like the binary blob may be a bit different depending on the operating system. I downloaded and extracted the installers for the Linux and FreeBSD drivers, and the FreeBSD blob is about 120k bigger than the Linux blob. Of course, there may be other things at play here, but that tells me that these drivers are probably mostly the same, but have a decent, but not truly significant, amounts of tweaks for quirks in the various architectures.
That's actually really fucking clever. I'd say the every boot relinking is more of a case that they know that people will rebuild and upgrade their kernel, so rather than spend more effort on support, they just recompile it every boot. Essentially guaranteed way to ensure that they stay in sync.
It's only a copyright violation if the linked code is distributed. You can have your own closed source binary drivers all day as long as you don't distribute the work to others. "But wait," you say, "isn't that what the binary driver makers are doing?" and for that, the answer is no. The person running the installer is the one creating the derivative work; up until they compile it, it's just a bunch of header files and a binary blob designed to interface with the specs of the header files. As long as the makers of the binary blob don't look at kernel sources, and instead have other people write the glue layer between their driver and the kernel, then binary drivers cannot be considered a derivative work.
Isn't one of the things the bible mentions that we are stewards of the earth? Didn't Isaiah 45:18 explicitly say that god did not create the earth in vain? I don't know about you, but I'd say that causing another animal's extinction for minor purposes is taking the earth in vain.
You, like many atheists, seem to be missing the point. The issue is talking about god, with a lower case g, not a God with a capital G. god, lack of capitalization intentional, is the idea behind a deity, one who is able to control the rules of the universe. The nature and plausibility of any particular god, such as the Christian God, or FSM, is subject to a debate of the evidence one way or the other. Dawkins, and other fundamentalist atheists, refuse to recognize this big difference. Is the christian God likely? Probably not. Is the concept of a god plausible, that god being a being able to design a universe and manage it? The jury remains out on that.
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Not really. Cereal grains do really well in certain climate regions, which, surprise, surprise, are abundant in the US. That's the reason why the US grows half the grain, not some vast illuminati-wrought conspiracy designed to keep the man down.
They can do pretty decent measurements of things like magma chamber sizes these days to get a pretty good idea on how big a volcano is going to be when it finally goes. Yellowstone is fucking huge, and most likely, will be a very big explosion when it does occur.
I'd say they meet more at totalitarian. Fascists and communists aren't all that different, all things considered.
No, that would be a pocket gerbil. Get your urban mythology straight.
You may want to take a look at something like the nokia communicators, nice phones, a little bit less expensive than the iPhone, but a good amount more versatile and flexible. Something you're forgetting that there is a cost/benefit analysis to everything, and features people really want. I can do without a 2mp camera -- a camera phone is for snapshots, and I've yet to see a good flash on a camera phone. I'd rather just keep a nice 5mp digital close at hand if there's absolutely something that needs greater than 640x480. You also have to consider those of us who like a tactile keyboard. I actually like feeling the letters I'm typing; keyboards with no action annoy me. Additionally, you have to take into account things like portability of service. With the iPhone, you're stuck with cingular. With a phone like the Nokia 9500, you get a less expensive phone, that can be used with any service you want, like tmobile, or alltel, or even being able to go overseas with the same phone and buy a prepaid sim. Finally, Apple has said that their phone will be a closed box. That means no third party apps that will infringe on Apple/Cingular's business models -- no VOIP, no third party games, little to no chance of bandwidth heavy, but vital for IT, apps such as SSH clients or VNC clients. These are all things that Apple is lacking, and will probably always lack due to their agreement with Cingular.
Regarding your list of "optional" features, most of those things are available as j2me midlets already. Google maps, opera, etc are already available today, for free. Really, the iPhone is just another locked down phone, not much different than a verizon branded razr. You're stuck being spoonfed what they want you to see, and customization and versatility are frowned upon as "evil hacker" things. I don't buy locked phones; unlocked phones are far superior in terms of what they do. Apple is making just another unlocked phone.
Here's one such article.
You do realize that every cell phone maker on the planet sells unlocked phones as well as vendor-locked phones, right? Apple could very easily sell an unlocked version of their phone, they're just banking on ignorant sluts who think otherwise.
Because if you only need to run one or two apps, it doesn't make much sense to have to shut down all your other apps just to run the few programs that don't run under OS X.
No. Copyright can be selectively enforced; no need to show due diligence. However, this copyright may be bogus for other reasons, especially considering that pre-1978 choreography copyrights are a lot more stringent, and Mr. Silver probably didn't do most of the steps needed.
Yeah, made me glad I had a suite up on the 9th floor. Yay for no fanboy funk while hot tubbing.
I'm not so certain in cases like this. There are plenty of situations of comedic movies where a trademark is parodied and no such mention of licensing is made. Perhaps certain litigious parties would like people to believe that one has to file claims against every usage, regardless of how small, but precedent seems to suggest otherwise.
I'd disagree. A tip of the hat without a license would serve just as much purpose. Hell, saying nothing at all wouldn't cause any problems, all things considered. Obvious parody is something that weighs heavy in trademark rulings, so it is doubtful that any sort of acknowledgment is needed in this situation.
Hey, furries bring the funk...unfortunately, some fanboys bring more than their fair share ;3. Plus, that dance may not even be copyrightable. As it was created prior to 1978, the rules on copyright are a lot different, and it seems that Mr. Silver doesn't really have a legal leg to stand on.
Now if only other people could be so lenient towards copyright...
There are several hacks available that let you use it as a PC drive. Too lazy to google it, do the groundwork yourself.
There are a lot of questions to be asked of the database, such as what the schema was, what the database type was, etc. Plus, they were using the old mysql set of commands in php 4, instead of the mysqli commandset in php 5, which would have also greatly increased their mysql performance. So that benchmark is just as invalid as the article's. I guess what it boils down to is YMMV.
That was changed over a year ago.
From a very cursory glance, it looks like the binary blob may be a bit different depending on the operating system. I downloaded and extracted the installers for the Linux and FreeBSD drivers, and the FreeBSD blob is about 120k bigger than the Linux blob. Of course, there may be other things at play here, but that tells me that these drivers are probably mostly the same, but have a decent, but not truly significant, amounts of tweaks for quirks in the various architectures.
That's actually really fucking clever. I'd say the every boot relinking is more of a case that they know that people will rebuild and upgrade their kernel, so rather than spend more effort on support, they just recompile it every boot. Essentially guaranteed way to ensure that they stay in sync.
It's only a copyright violation if the linked code is distributed. You can have your own closed source binary drivers all day as long as you don't distribute the work to others. "But wait," you say, "isn't that what the binary driver makers are doing?" and for that, the answer is no. The person running the installer is the one creating the derivative work; up until they compile it, it's just a bunch of header files and a binary blob designed to interface with the specs of the header files. As long as the makers of the binary blob don't look at kernel sources, and instead have other people write the glue layer between their driver and the kernel, then binary drivers cannot be considered a derivative work.
Isn't one of the things the bible mentions that we are stewards of the earth? Didn't Isaiah 45:18 explicitly say that god did not create the earth in vain? I don't know about you, but I'd say that causing another animal's extinction for minor purposes is taking the earth in vain.
Is your mom going to be any more or less dead in 5 minutes when you get the voice mail message saying that she died? Life happens, carry an umbrella.
You, like many atheists, seem to be missing the point. The issue is talking about god, with a lower case g, not a God with a capital G. god, lack of capitalization intentional, is the idea behind a deity, one who is able to control the rules of the universe. The nature and plausibility of any particular god, such as the Christian God, or FSM, is subject to a debate of the evidence one way or the other. Dawkins, and other fundamentalist atheists, refuse to recognize this big difference. Is the christian God likely? Probably not. Is the concept of a god plausible, that god being a being able to design a universe and manage it? The jury remains out on that.
But I thought Chuck was a douche, not a tampon.