Can't speak for Apple, but I've recently had to do something similar with my old version of Norton Utilities. It allows you to install it on 3 machines, which I've done, but as it's quite an old version those machines are no longer in use (two are in bits, one's a Linux server) and I never deauthorised them.
In order to install it on my new PC, I had to phone Symantec and ask them to remove the old licences. They did that and I was then able to install. It's a bit of a pain, but not too bad. However, if I was doing that on a regular basis I think they might start to get a bit more awkward with me.
I don't agree with DRM (I refuse to buy from iTunes on the grounds that I can't play any music from there on my Squeezebox media player without burning onto a CD first), but the issue of dead/stolen computers shouldn't be too much of an issue.
There is no way that the bands/venues/promoters will let that nosebleed seat in an unsold out show go for a penny.
Why not? If it increases overall profit, then I'm pretty sure they would. There's plenty of bargain bucket airlines that sell seats on half empty flights for a penny (and those seats aren't even going to be any worse than the ones that people have paid full price for), so I don't see why concerts would be that different.
Mine's a 20D (wish I'd waited a few months for the 30D!), and I'm using the standard Canon 18-55 lens that came with it - not sure if it's the same on as the XT, and a Sigma 55-200. I have thought about investing in better lenses, but at the moment the quality is such a step up from the compact that I had that I'm probably going to wait for a bit. I will look into the 50mm you mentioned though.
In theory, that's true. However, I've got a Sony 3mega-pixel camera a later model Sony 7 mega-pixel one. I've taken identical photos on both of them on max detail and resulution. The picture quality is almost exactly the same (although the file sizes aren't!) - I've tried zooming in and that makes no difference. However, I've also got an 8 mega pixel Canon digital SLR, and the picture quality is vastly superior - I can zoom in far further at an acceptable quality than with the 7 MP Sony.
My take on it is that it's big "selling" point is its ability to smartly manage things like package dependencies, downloading etc. This means that you don't have to go through loads of different manual steps (and loads of working out dependencies) to install something.
It may be slightly less smooth to type 'y' every now and then when an EULA pops up, but to get all of the other benefits of something like apt it would seem a fair compromise to me.
Would it not be possible to extend apt-get to allow EULA text to be displayed (when required) during the install process?
I appreciate that this is not currently available, so proprietary software cannot be got through this process, but as far as I can tell, that's an issue with the current implementation of apt-get rather than a fundamental barrier.
From what I understand, the police in the U.K. already monitor those cameras with a huge staff.
Not to my knowledge. My mum is one of the volunteers that monitors the CCTV in their local town. If they spot something, they are able to call the local(ish) police in the same way that anyone else can, but there's no special hotline, and certainly no permanent police presence there. All this does is potentially mean that there would be more volunteers and they wouldn't have to leave their sofas to do it.
You made the assertion that Dehomag was the only available supplier to the Nazis of tabulating equipment. It's just not true.
No. I made the assertion that IBM was the only company with both the equipment and (more importantly) significant, up to date knowledge of both the technical and operational skills to carry out a census on this scale.
But I mentioned the 1910 U.S.
And how many other major censuses had they carried out in the intervening 20+ years? And is there any evidence that they were either able to, or prepared to, supply either these skills or their punched cards to the Nazis?
It was a bit like Betamax v. VHS back then, actually.
An interesting comparison. How much use would your video recorder be without any tapes to use them? And how much use do you think the tabulators would be without the millions of (precision manufactured) punched cards required to run the jobs? And who do you think were the only company capable of manufacturing and supplying these cards in the required volumes?
The Swiss appeals court decided according to a very low standard: whether the case should be tossed out of court or not.
Indeed. And if it were "without merit", as claimed by you, then it would have been. The court's decision doesn't prove that IBM are guilty, but it does show that there is merit in the claim.
IBM (and Remington Rand) manufactured tabulating equipment during peacetime, tabulating equipment which made the world a much better place in many countries.
So? No one is claiming that IBM (or tabulating equipment) are inherently evil. The fact that they have been used for good has no bearing on culpability for helping in the holocaust. Germans have done good things for humanity, but no-one ever tries to use this to defend what happened there under the Nazis.
(Remember, IBM tabulating equipment found many uses helping the Allies beat the Nazis, including all sorts of military-related accounting.)
So they were happy to profit from both sides? Great. The allegation is not that they were immoral (actively supporting the Nazi ideology), more that they were ammoral (didn't care who they supplied, so long as they could make a profit).
Some evil people then went on to use the seized equipment/subsidiary to aid their "Final Solution."
The point is that (according to the detailed allegations in the book - have you read it?) that Dehomag was not seized, but that it was still run (behind a Germanic front) by IBM US.
Of course that's awful, but I don't see how that fact alone leads to any sort of culpability, any more than it would for any other legal product (including guns, fire trucks, vacuum tubes, titanium, diamonds, phosphorous, radio transmitters, aircraft and aircraft parts, etc.) sold in Germany pre-War.
And (in my view) any of the companies that were supplying equipment with the full knowledge that it was being used to help carry out attrocities like the holocaust are culpable.
The problem with McCarthy was not that there were no communists, there were.
And why in a country of supposedly free speech/politics etc, was being a communist something that required a witch hunt?
If a government can devote its resources (seemingly with a fair degree of public consent) in tracking down and persecuting political opponents, then I really don't want that government monitoring my every move.
BTW, your sig - it's a bad translation. A more accurate interpretation is "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for protectors [or possibly allies]", and was a passage referring to a debate about a specific military treaty that was in place between some Muslim, Christian and Jewish tribes against a group of pagans. The treaty had been violated by one of the non-Muslim tribes, and there was debate about whether it should be cancelled or not.
It's also worth nothing that the lawyers who filed against IBM in U.S. court, alleging that IBM had responsibility for Dehomag's assistance to the Nazis during World War II, dropped their own lawsuit two months after filing it.
And presumably you also know why they dropped it - the lawyers were concerned about delays to payments into a Holocaust survivers fund by German companies that were asking for all legal action to cease before they paid in (a fund that, incidentally, IBM have paid $3M to, admittedly without claiming any responsibility).
IBM says the case is without merit.
That's not too surprising really, is it. The Swiss appeals court has suggested differently. "It does not appear inconsistent to conclude that the respondent (IBM) facilitated the task of the Nazis in their committing of crimes against humanity -- acts which were counted and codified by IBM machines,"
As for the other supliers of tabulating machines - from my understanding, IBM/Dehomag were comfortably the world leaders in implementing census solutions (and the censuses that they'd previously performed in countries that Germany invaded came in very handy after the invasions), and therefore were able to bring unrivalled skills to the task, and the fact that there were a couple of other suppliers of vaguely appropriate equipment in the world does not mean that they would have sold to the Nazis (I'll admit that they may have, but I've not seen any evidence of this). And even if the equipment itself was available, how about the knowledge to run a census on it, or the millions of punched cards required to process it.
The existance of the Z1 is pretty irrelevant for a variety of reasons - as you've mentioned, the Nazis didn't pick up on its significance straight away; the census work was well under way by 1938; and from my understanding, the Z1 was a calculating machine rather than a tabulating machine - it would have still taken a fair amount of effort and time to add the required functionality, and there still wouldn't have been the required experience of how to run a census.
As I've stated, I don't know whether IBM really were complicit in the Holocaust (I simply have opinions, based purely on things that I've read), but Dehomag, whether with or without IBM's assistance, were certainly a key part of what happened and were bringing a hell of lot more to it than paper clip or car manufacturers.
You make several allegations about IBM. In fairness, here is the company's statement regarding the issue.
I'll admit I'm basing my comments on what I've read in the book "IBM And The Holocaust". That certainly gives an impression contrary to IBM's position - it's claim is that although technically owned by the Nazis, this was largely a front and that the Dehomag was still largely controlled by IBM US. I don't know whether those claims are true, but I would be interested in any statements from IBM showing that they didn't take any profits from the German operation at that time, or responses to the quite specific allegations about IBMs involvement that are in the book.
The same is true of, say, Ford. Did Ford also have a role in the Holocaust because its (seized by the Nazis) German subsidiary produced vehicles which probably transported SS officers to/from death camps? I'd say not, but perhaps you have another opinion.
Again, depends on how much knowledge the company had about the people that they were selling the cars to and what they were being used for. If it was simply that a third party supplier of Ford cars was selling them on to Nazi officials, without the knowledge of Ford, then the company wasn't in any way culpable. If, however, Ford Germany, under control from Ford US, were directly selling to the Nazi party, then I'd say yes they would have a certain amount of guilt (or at least immoral earnings). But, again, as with the paperclips, the Nazis could have sourced cars from other companies. They couldn't have sources tabulators (or the skills required to run) them from anyone else. If (and, for legal reasons, I'll clarify the if) the allegations in the book are true, then IBMs involvement was at a totally different level to simply supplying generic products (paper clips/cars etc) that plenty of other suppliers could have provided to the regime.
Couldn't spot any reference to payment for reviewers on the site. What would be good to see (if it doesn't already exist) is a fine for anyone submitting a dodgy patent, which could go towards a reward for the reviewer(s) that spot the problems with it.
Do you also blame the paperclip and staple manufacturers for aiding the Nazis in managing their documents in the death camps? The pipe makers for helping to build the gas chambers?
If they were aware of what their products were being used for and could have stopped their supply, then yes. The only difference is that I suspect the holocaust would not have ground to a halt for lack of paperclips, so their non co-operation would have been nothing more than symbolic, whereas IBM's (or more precisely Dehomag's - they kept the pretense of being a true Germanic company to please the Nazis and to keep IBM's involement out of the public eye) equipment and staff were absolutely crucial in the analysing and tracking of undesirables within the state. Without IBM's help, the persecution of the Jews and others would still have gone ahead, but it would almost certainly not have been at anywhere near the same scale as it was.
This is not a case of Germany having bought some IBM kit and people then blaming the inventors for this. It was Dehomag staff that designed and carried out large parts of the various censuses that were done in Germany during that period, and IBM management that took the money, knowing full well that the information was being used to round people up.
Erm, from your quote, the conveniently edited "..." = "However, copyright protection may be available for logo artwork that contains sufficient authorship."
WIndows never "just works". You pretty much have to rebuild it every six months too.
I really wonder what some people do to their systems. I've had my current Windows laptop for a couple of years now. I install and uninstall all manner of stuff on a regular basis, and as yet I've never had to rebuild it.
I've also got both a Mac and a Linux box (Fedora Core 4). I've never had to rebuild any of these either, although I do occasionally have to reconfigure the main menu bar on the Linux box when it seems to forget what menus are meant to be in it.
However, many of the people in Guantanamo were not captured while shooting at American soldiers - most were turned over to the US by bounty hunters - people being paid rewards for every "suspect" that they delivered (according to the Pentagon only 5% of the prisoners were actually captured by US troops, whether in direct combat situations or not).
I have absolutely no problem with performance on any other applications on the PC, so I've got no idea what the problem is, but it's very frustrating (although not as bad as the delay waiting for it to recognise that I've plugged my iPod in).
iTunes is (IMO) a good piece of software functionality-wise, but it is sooooo slooooooow. It can take a couple of minutes to start up on my (reasonably fast) PC, and normally takes another minute before it's noticed that the iPod is plugged in.
- Did the stamps use some of Miro's work directly, or did the PO just produce stamps "in a Miro style", like Google's logo - Did the PO profit, unlike Google, from the sale of the stamps?
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Operating systems are suppose to use all our processing power?
Uh, no. Operating Systems are meant to allow you to take full advantange of your processing power.
Can't speak for Apple, but I've recently had to do something similar with my old version of Norton Utilities. It allows you to install it on 3 machines, which I've done, but as it's quite an old version those machines are no longer in use (two are in bits, one's a Linux server) and I never deauthorised them.
In order to install it on my new PC, I had to phone Symantec and ask them to remove the old licences. They did that and I was then able to install. It's a bit of a pain, but not too bad. However, if I was doing that on a regular basis I think they might start to get a bit more awkward with me.
I don't agree with DRM (I refuse to buy from iTunes on the grounds that I can't play any music from there on my Squeezebox media player without burning onto a CD first), but the issue of dead/stolen computers shouldn't be too much of an issue.
Why not? If it increases overall profit, then I'm pretty sure they would. There's plenty of bargain bucket airlines that sell seats on half empty flights for a penny (and those seats aren't even going to be any worse than the ones that people have paid full price for), so I don't see why concerts would be that different.
Mine's a 20D (wish I'd waited a few months for the 30D!), and I'm using the standard Canon 18-55 lens that came with it - not sure if it's the same on as the XT, and a Sigma 55-200. I have thought about investing in better lenses, but at the moment the quality is such a step up from the compact that I had that I'm probably going to wait for a bit. I will look into the 50mm you mentioned though.
In theory, that's true. However, I've got a Sony 3mega-pixel camera a later model Sony 7 mega-pixel one. I've taken identical photos on both of them on max detail and resulution. The picture quality is almost exactly the same (although the file sizes aren't!) - I've tried zooming in and that makes no difference. However, I've also got an 8 mega pixel Canon digital SLR, and the picture quality is vastly superior - I can zoom in far further at an acceptable quality than with the 7 MP Sony.
My take on it is that it's big "selling" point is its ability to smartly manage things like package dependencies, downloading etc. This means that you don't have to go through loads of different manual steps (and loads of working out dependencies) to install something.
It may be slightly less smooth to type 'y' every now and then when an EULA pops up, but to get all of the other benefits of something like apt it would seem a fair compromise to me.
Why does APT have to be fully automatic? That seems a silly restriction if that's all that's preventing it from being used for proprietary software.
Would it not be possible to extend apt-get to allow EULA text to be displayed (when required) during the install process?
I appreciate that this is not currently available, so proprietary software cannot be got through this process, but as far as I can tell, that's an issue with the current implementation of apt-get rather than a fundamental barrier.
Not to my knowledge. My mum is one of the volunteers that monitors the CCTV in their local town. If they spot something, they are able to call the local(ish) police in the same way that anyone else can, but there's no special hotline, and certainly no permanent police presence there. All this does is potentially mean that there would be more volunteers and they wouldn't have to leave their sofas to do it.
You take photos of her and stick them on a web page. I'm sure he could then "take the DNA extraction into his own hands" (sorry).
No. I made the assertion that IBM was the only company with both the equipment and (more importantly) significant, up to date knowledge of both the technical and operational skills to carry out a census on this scale.
But I mentioned the 1910 U.S.
And how many other major censuses had they carried out in the intervening 20+ years? And is there any evidence that they were either able to, or prepared to, supply either these skills or their punched cards to the Nazis?
It was a bit like Betamax v. VHS back then, actually.
An interesting comparison. How much use would your video recorder be without any tapes to use them? And how much use do you think the tabulators would be without the millions of (precision manufactured) punched cards required to run the jobs? And who do you think were the only company capable of manufacturing and supplying these cards in the required volumes?
The Swiss appeals court decided according to a very low standard: whether the case should be tossed out of court or not.
Indeed. And if it were "without merit", as claimed by you, then it would have been. The court's decision doesn't prove that IBM are guilty, but it does show that there is merit in the claim.
IBM (and Remington Rand) manufactured tabulating equipment during peacetime, tabulating equipment which made the world a much better place in many countries.
So? No one is claiming that IBM (or tabulating equipment) are inherently evil. The fact that they have been used for good has no bearing on culpability for helping in the holocaust. Germans have done good things for humanity, but no-one ever tries to use this to defend what happened there under the Nazis.
(Remember, IBM tabulating equipment found many uses helping the Allies beat the Nazis, including all sorts of military-related accounting.)
So they were happy to profit from both sides? Great. The allegation is not that they were immoral (actively supporting the Nazi ideology), more that they were ammoral (didn't care who they supplied, so long as they could make a profit).
Some evil people then went on to use the seized equipment/subsidiary to aid their "Final Solution."
The point is that (according to the detailed allegations in the book - have you read it?) that Dehomag was not seized, but that it was still run (behind a Germanic front) by IBM US.
Of course that's awful, but I don't see how that fact alone leads to any sort of culpability, any more than it would for any other legal product (including guns, fire trucks, vacuum tubes, titanium, diamonds, phosphorous, radio transmitters, aircraft and aircraft parts, etc.) sold in Germany pre-War.
And (in my view) any of the companies that were supplying equipment with the full knowledge that it was being used to help carry out attrocities like the holocaust are culpable.
And why in a country of supposedly free speech/politics etc, was being a communist something that required a witch hunt?
If a government can devote its resources (seemingly with a fair degree of public consent) in tracking down and persecuting political opponents, then I really don't want that government monitoring my every move.
BTW, your sig - it's a bad translation. A more accurate interpretation is "O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for protectors [or possibly allies]", and was a passage referring to a debate about a specific military treaty that was in place between some Muslim, Christian and Jewish tribes against a group of pagans. The treaty had been violated by one of the non-Muslim tribes, and there was debate about whether it should be cancelled or not.
For 100 million pixels, the graphics of those planes look pretty crap.
And presumably you also know why they dropped it - the lawyers were concerned about delays to payments into a Holocaust survivers fund by German companies that were asking for all legal action to cease before they paid in (a fund that, incidentally, IBM have paid $3M to, admittedly without claiming any responsibility).
IBM says the case is without merit.
That's not too surprising really, is it. The Swiss appeals court has suggested differently. "It does not appear inconsistent to conclude that the respondent (IBM) facilitated the task of the Nazis in their committing of crimes against humanity -- acts which were counted and codified by IBM machines,"
As for the other supliers of tabulating machines - from my understanding, IBM/Dehomag were comfortably the world leaders in implementing census solutions (and the censuses that they'd previously performed in countries that Germany invaded came in very handy after the invasions), and therefore were able to bring unrivalled skills to the task, and the fact that there were a couple of other suppliers of vaguely appropriate equipment in the world does not mean that they would have sold to the Nazis (I'll admit that they may have, but I've not seen any evidence of this). And even if the equipment itself was available, how about the knowledge to run a census on it, or the millions of punched cards required to process it.
The existance of the Z1 is pretty irrelevant for a variety of reasons - as you've mentioned, the Nazis didn't pick up on its significance straight away; the census work was well under way by 1938; and from my understanding, the Z1 was a calculating machine rather than a tabulating machine - it would have still taken a fair amount of effort and time to add the required functionality, and there still wouldn't have been the required experience of how to run a census.
As I've stated, I don't know whether IBM really were complicit in the Holocaust (I simply have opinions, based purely on things that I've read), but Dehomag, whether with or without IBM's assistance, were certainly a key part of what happened and were bringing a hell of lot more to it than paper clip or car manufacturers.
I'll admit I'm basing my comments on what I've read in the book "IBM And The Holocaust". That certainly gives an impression contrary to IBM's position - it's claim is that although technically owned by the Nazis, this was largely a front and that the Dehomag was still largely controlled by IBM US. I don't know whether those claims are true, but I would be interested in any statements from IBM showing that they didn't take any profits from the German operation at that time, or responses to the quite specific allegations about IBMs involvement that are in the book.
The same is true of, say, Ford. Did Ford also have a role in the Holocaust because its (seized by the Nazis) German subsidiary produced vehicles which probably transported SS officers to/from death camps? I'd say not, but perhaps you have another opinion.
Again, depends on how much knowledge the company had about the people that they were selling the cars to and what they were being used for. If it was simply that a third party supplier of Ford cars was selling them on to Nazi officials, without the knowledge of Ford, then the company wasn't in any way culpable. If, however, Ford Germany, under control from Ford US, were directly selling to the Nazi party, then I'd say yes they would have a certain amount of guilt (or at least immoral earnings). But, again, as with the paperclips, the Nazis could have sourced cars from other companies. They couldn't have sources tabulators (or the skills required to run) them from anyone else. If (and, for legal reasons, I'll clarify the if) the allegations in the book are true, then IBMs involvement was at a totally different level to simply supplying generic products (paper clips/cars etc) that plenty of other suppliers could have provided to the regime.
Couldn't spot any reference to payment for reviewers on the site. What would be good to see (if it doesn't already exist) is a fine for anyone submitting a dodgy patent, which could go towards a reward for the reviewer(s) that spot the problems with it.
If they were aware of what their products were being used for and could have stopped their supply, then yes. The only difference is that I suspect the holocaust would not have ground to a halt for lack of paperclips, so their non co-operation would have been nothing more than symbolic, whereas IBM's (or more precisely Dehomag's - they kept the pretense of being a true Germanic company to please the Nazis and to keep IBM's involement out of the public eye) equipment and staff were absolutely crucial in the analysing and tracking of undesirables within the state. Without IBM's help, the persecution of the Jews and others would still have gone ahead, but it would almost certainly not have been at anywhere near the same scale as it was.
This is not a case of Germany having bought some IBM kit and people then blaming the inventors for this. It was Dehomag staff that designed and carried out large parts of the various censuses that were done in Germany during that period, and IBM management that took the money, knowing full well that the information was being used to round people up.
Erm, from your quote, the conveniently edited "..." = "However, copyright protection may be available for logo artwork that contains sufficient authorship."
So, no, he was right.
I really wonder what some people do to their systems. I've had my current Windows laptop for a couple of years now. I install and uninstall all manner of stuff on a regular basis, and as yet I've never had to rebuild it.
I've also got both a Mac and a Linux box (Fedora Core 4). I've never had to rebuild any of these either, although I do occasionally have to reconfigure the main menu bar on the Linux box when it seems to forget what menus are meant to be in it.
Chances are higher that the dwarf male with the beard down to his knees or the massive tauren male with a huge mallet are the RL women.)
Although given some of the women who play RPGs, they've probably got a beard down to their knees in real life as well.
However, many of the people in Guantanamo were not captured while shooting at American soldiers - most were turned over to the US by bounty hunters - people being paid rewards for every "suspect" that they delivered (according to the Pentagon only 5% of the prisoners were actually captured by US troops, whether in direct combat situations or not).
I have absolutely no problem with performance on any other applications on the PC, so I've got no idea what the problem is, but it's very frustrating (although not as bad as the delay waiting for it to recognise that I've plugged my iPod in).
iTunes is (IMO) a good piece of software functionality-wise, but it is sooooo slooooooow. It can take a couple of minutes to start up on my (reasonably fast) PC, and normally takes another minute before it's noticed that the iPod is plugged in.
Two questions about the stamp comparison.
- Did the stamps use some of Miro's work directly, or did the PO just produce stamps "in a Miro style", like Google's logo
- Did the PO profit, unlike Google, from the sale of the stamps?
At an "I'm happy, I want a happy tune" level, no. At the "I'm really in the mood for a bit of Durutti Column" level, then yes.
Also, having that volume of music really makes Random more interesting.