"Software embedded in or bundled with industrial control systems, wireless mobile telephones, wireless handheld devices, kiosks, TV/STB, Blu-ray Disc devices, telematics and network control switching equipment, printers and storage management systems, and other related systems are excluded from this definition and not licensed under this Agreement."
As for the open source release, that's covered under the Java Language Spec patent grant.
That only covers fully-conforming versions, not sub or supersets.
If Sun was such a nice company, it became more incumbent, not less, for Google to send a few $million their way, don't you think?
Sun open sourced Java, but not for mobile.
Actually, even if they had, if Google wanted to truly be "not evil", they would have found a way to give some money to a staggering, but highly innovative company.
The only problem with that would be shareholders who would whine, "Why are you giving free money away when you don't have to?"
The fig leaf to protect Google from the "not increasing shareholder value" charge would have been the Sun patents.
I like Thunderbird because: -I like to keep the same apps across platforms -The availability of plugins -The fact that plugins can be programmed more easily than for Evolution (do they have them? are they done in C?)
Yet at the same time, this continues the general theme of Ubuntu keeping on messing things around and changing them. Pick one thing and stick with it! F-spot -> Shotwell, Pidgin -> Empathy, drop GIMP, drop OpenOffice (from CD), Gnome -> Unity, etc.
While I agree with you that that's the way it should be, I think the reality distortion field clouds the matter.
People seem to think MS Office is the only office product. Remember Google's lawsuit over the Federal one-contractor bid (MS)?
Same for iPhone, I think. The various government projects using iPhones and iPads? I'd venture to guess they didn't specify "generic tablet" but rather iPad specifically.
I don't understand people who obsessively have to delete stuff in their Inbox.
OK, so you want a clean Inbox. Fine. Delete junk/spam.
For the rest, stuff like: -sales leads -your boss saying "Do X" -your colleagues telling you why they can do Y, upon which X depends -vendors with pricing/other info -customer complaints which you reply to
why would you want to delete it? It doesn't take up space in a filing cabinet. You'll be hard pressed to come up with more than a few hundred MB of email in a year, the size of an average PowerPoint, I guess.
And if you ever need to explain why X isn't done already, you could just forward an email, if you hadn't wiped it.
So move it to different folders ("Sales Leads", "Projects", whatever). And archive it.
Simulate being in the small room, while actually being in the big room.
We could add a display monitor that'd double as a TV. Also, maybe we could hook into a global network of satellites to try to figure out where you are (to avoid having to open the portals of simulator and ask biological beings where you are).
To avoid pedaling effort, we'll add some kind of device that takes petroleum distillate, burns & explodes it, and produces a turning motion. Voila, no pedaling!
Of couse, we'd have padded & heated chairs of rich Corinthian leather.
Oh, and also integrate that smell-producing machine that was on Slashdot a few weeks ago so you can smell what the route would have smelt like (flowers, fruit trees, landfill, whatever).
And also hook in the sprinkler system and HVAC for virtual weather (heat/cold/humidity up/down), so you can experience exactly the kind of weather you'd have if you were really outside.
And also hook in street/trafffic cams so you can hear the sounds you would have heard if you deigned to go into the big room with the blue ceiling
Does it only suppress surges? Or does it also heighten nadirs? Depending on whether you have brownouts in your area, the power co might be on the losing end having the device installed before the meter.
And we'd just like to remind you that you need a separate license from us when:
-you buy the CD -you rip it to your hard drive -you make backups of your hard drive -you copy it to your MP3 player -you copy it to your cloud storage -you stream it from your cloud storage -you copy it to your brains neural network
N.B.: If you retain a copy in your brain's storage (also called "song in my head"), you'll need another license.
>Last I checked, emails weren't legally binding, as a contract is
Check again.
Congress passed the ESIGN act to prevent people from repudiating contracts that were made electronically. That was the foundation of the e-commerce boom (otherwise, how would you expect companies to sell on the Internet when people could just say "Oh, that wasn't a real contract, it was just electronic.")
Btw, a contract doesn't need to even be written to be a contract. The written form helps in establishing what was contracted, though.
A contract requires an offer, an acceptance, and consideration (exchange of value).
If you hash out terms for a business deal over email, and at the end you accept it, you just made a contract.
Namecheap has the best interface I've encountered.
Moniker is so-so. The interface is somewhat clunky, and it doesn't register domains as fast as Namecheap. For multiple domains, it puts them into a batch job that starts executing a few minutes later.
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This is pretty generally know if you've been following Java, but since you ask:
The Java Runtime license states:
"Software embedded in or bundled with industrial control systems, wireless mobile telephones, wireless handheld devices, kiosks, TV/STB, Blu-ray Disc devices, telematics and network control switching equipment, printers and storage management systems, and other related systems are excluded from this definition and not licensed under this Agreement."
As for the open source release, that's covered under the Java Language Spec patent grant.
That only covers fully-conforming versions, not sub or supersets.
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Java_and_patents
It was Sun's intention to give Java away on the desktop, and charge for embedded use.
Would you care to elaborate what your setups were at 200, 120, and 50 watts? Curious.
Have you tried FreeDOS?
If Sun was such a nice company, it became more incumbent, not less, for Google to send a few $million their way, don't you think?
Sun open sourced Java, but not for mobile.
Actually, even if they had, if Google wanted to truly be "not evil", they would have found a way to give some money to a staggering, but highly innovative company.
The only problem with that would be shareholders who would whine, "Why are you giving free money away when you don't have to?"
The fig leaf to protect Google from the "not increasing shareholder value" charge would have been the Sun patents.
Unfortunately, Google chose to ignore them.
Whoever said that you have to arrange your papers and effects in such a way that the government can understand it?
Does this also apply to paper documents?
Are you not allowed to write your thoughts in a coded manner?
Is it also OK to use euphemisms in your diary?
Is it the government's position that you also have to interpret your diary for the prosecution?
>And I bought this model because the other main Chinese import radio has a CHINESE ACCENT in the spoken announcements.
That's nothing, I bought a Chinese-made radio that has a CHINESE ACCENT when I'm listening to local news!
Huh? Microsoft was not able to defend their Windows trademark.
They reached a mutually beneficial settlement with Lindows. (Lindows changed their name in exchange for $$.)
>It is slowly sinking in to our senior management that we need to ditch the Indians and higher local high school graduates
Just to confirm:
-So you'll be ditching the higher high school graduates, too?
-I assume you'll be keeping the lower high school graduates?
Wait, so that means you should call earlier in the day?
And, if so, what day? Indian? Eastern? Pacific? Or Texas, where Dell is?
Agree.
I like Thunderbird because:
-I like to keep the same apps across platforms
-The availability of plugins
-The fact that plugins can be programmed more easily than for Evolution (do they have them? are they done in C?)
Yet at the same time, this continues the general theme of Ubuntu keeping on messing things around and changing them. Pick one thing and stick with it! F-spot -> Shotwell, Pidgin -> Empathy, drop GIMP, drop OpenOffice (from CD), Gnome -> Unity, etc.
While I agree with you that that's the way it should be, I think the reality distortion field clouds the matter.
People seem to think MS Office is the only office product. Remember Google's lawsuit over the Federal one-contractor bid (MS)?
Same for iPhone, I think. The various government projects using iPhones and iPads? I'd venture to guess they didn't specify "generic tablet" but rather iPad specifically.
I don't understand people who obsessively have to delete stuff in their Inbox.
OK, so you want a clean Inbox. Fine. Delete junk/spam.
For the rest, stuff like:
-sales leads
-your boss saying "Do X"
-your colleagues telling you why they can do Y, upon which X depends
-vendors with pricing/other info
-customer complaints which you reply to
why would you want to delete it? It doesn't take up space in a filing cabinet. You'll be hard pressed to come up with more than a few hundred MB of email in a year, the size of an average PowerPoint, I guess.
And if you ever need to explain why X isn't done already, you could just forward an email, if you hadn't wiped it.
So move it to different folders ("Sales Leads", "Projects", whatever). And archive it.
The legal implications are that the CEO will call 911 and say he needs the police to arrest the programming team.
Hey, that's a great idea!
Simulate being in the small room, while actually being in the big room.
We could add a display monitor that'd double as a TV. Also, maybe we could hook into a global network of satellites to try to figure out where you are (to avoid having to open the portals of simulator and ask biological beings where you are).
To avoid pedaling effort, we'll add some kind of device that takes petroleum distillate, burns & explodes it, and produces a turning motion. Voila, no pedaling!
Of couse, we'd have padded & heated chairs of rich Corinthian leather.
I think we'll call it:
Common Autonomous Robot, or "car".
Oh, and also integrate that smell-producing machine that was on Slashdot a few weeks ago so you can smell what the route would have smelt like (flowers, fruit trees, landfill, whatever).
And also hook in the sprinkler system and HVAC for virtual weather (heat/cold/humidity up/down), so you can experience exactly the kind of weather you'd have if you were really outside.
And also hook in street/trafffic cams so you can hear the sounds you would have heard if you deigned to go into the big room with the blue ceiling
Does it only suppress surges? Or does it also heighten nadirs? Depending on whether you have brownouts in your area, the power co might be on the losing end having the device installed before the meter.
OK, but what about the remote? You go to your other room, select a movie, and then come back to the TV room?
Not a question for you, but for the consumer society: Where will we get the gold (or other metals) after having thrown it all away? Mining landfills?
Finally, Identica can pick up some steam!
(The geeks' version of Twitter, if you don't already know.)
OK, thanks for the info. I wasn't aware of the specifics of Amazon's license.
Yeah, I was joking. Of course, I'm sure record company execs do dream of the above list of licenses.
Finally, I think it's due to pushback from us that Amazon has been able to negotiate such terms.
And we'd just like to remind you that you need a separate license from us when:
-you buy the CD
-you rip it to your hard drive
-you make backups of your hard drive
-you copy it to your MP3 player
-you copy it to your cloud storage
-you stream it from your cloud storage
-you copy it to your brains neural network
N.B.: If you retain a copy in your brain's storage (also called "song in my head"), you'll need another license.
Thanks for this, it seems to have some good features, and it beats even Namecheap on price.
Have you used the interface? Is it easy to make mass updates (select the domains you want to change, and then update nameservers en masse?)
>Last I checked, emails weren't legally binding, as a contract is
Check again.
Congress passed the ESIGN act to prevent people from repudiating contracts that were made electronically. That was the foundation of the e-commerce boom (otherwise, how would you expect companies to sell on the Internet when people could just say "Oh, that wasn't a real contract, it was just electronic.")
Btw, a contract doesn't need to even be written to be a contract. The written form helps in establishing what was contracted, though.
A contract requires an offer, an acceptance, and consideration (exchange of value).
If you hash out terms for a business deal over email, and at the end you accept it, you just made a contract.
Namecheap has the best interface I've encountered.
Moniker is so-so. The interface is somewhat clunky, and it doesn't register domains as fast as Namecheap. For multiple domains, it puts them into a batch job that starts executing a few minutes later.
Any other good ones?
Want to take a shot at enlightening the rest of us non-tau plebes?