It's Microsoft that is forcing them to do it, though. The manufacturers *asked* Microsoft to let them keep shipping XP. It's Microsoft that's saying "you have to support both operating systems, or just Vista, even if your customers are asking for XP".
Or were you talking about recording at home and then time-shifting to the office or the car, for which satellite radio would still hold a significant lead in convenience?
I have one word for you: podcasts.
Time shifting is more convenient than broadcast now.
I'm sorry, but surely in the case of XP, everyone says THAT is the one that has the better fuel economy, and improves performance.
Um, yes, that's the one I'm talking about. Learn to read, idiot.
Dell charged people *upgrading to XP* $20 for the upgrade and $130 for a copy of Vista they didn't want *in addition* to the copy of XP they were actually using.
1. I am not a lawyer, but Lawrence Lessig is, and his interpretation of the "progress clause" differs from yours.
2. The fact that there are limitations for interoperability means that the "exclusive right" is not absolute. The fact that the specific form of interoperability referenced by the DMCA and by later rulings from the Copyright Office is for a different purpose doesn't change the fact that the "exclusive right" referred to is not absolute. There are literally thousands of other examples of limitations to this "exclusive right", all the way back to the explicit exclusions a couple of hundred years ago of typefaces and cooking recipes from copyright protection. This is a broad and general class of limitations with centuries of precedent behind it... the DMCA *had* to have at least some allowance for it or it wouldn't have passed any kind of judicial review.
RTFA. Lenovo didn't provide a breakdown of the fees, but Dell did: their charge was $20 for installing XP *instead of* Vista, and $130 for providing a Vista license (which the user didn't want) as well.
This is a situation where the car was built with no engine, and the work required for installing either engine is the same, and there's zero warehouse costs for the engine, and the car manufacturer wanted and asked the engine manufacturer to keep the right to install the 2006 engine, but the engine manufacturer said they were only allowed to install the 2008 engine even though it had lower fuel efficiency and significantly reduced the car's performance and maneuverability.
I'm sure people like Bill Gates would have paid for something that would detect and intercept incoming pies. They're a more credible threat for a well funded and high profile market.
The purpose of copyright is not "rewarding people who deserve to be rewarded", it's "promoting the advancement of the arts and sciences". Allowing interoperability is explicitly called out as an exception to the DMCA for this very reason.
There are two general ways for a cell-based network to operate. First, the device can periodically poll the cellular network to let the network know where it is... this is how cellphones and similar devices work. Second, the device can be passive, and the network broadcasts the message. This is how old-style pagers work, and why pagers can run for a couple of weeks on a single AAA cell. The disadvantage of this technique is that all the towers have to broadcast all messages all the time.
This "polling the network" to keep continually in touch and on-line is why cellphones only have a day or two of "standby" time.
A device like a blackberry could operate in a semi-passive mode, only updating its location on the network occasionally, and letting the network search for it otherwise. For email, even if the search took a minute or two, it wouldn't matter: this kind of latency would be acceptable.
This is far more power efficient than the system you mentioned using latency.
I'm sorry, I can't even parse this enough to figure out whether I should be offended or not. I didn't mention any kind of system, and latency isn't a system or part of a system, latency is a characteristic of a system... a side effect. What in the blessed name of Metcalfe's sainted aunt are you talking about?
The acceptable latency for email is much higher... if you send someone an email you're not sitting there with a brick against your face waiting for them to get it and reply, if it takes a few minutes, even, that's pretty good. Many mail servers have longer internal latency than that. Given the power budget for these things, if RIM don't take advantage of that to reduce the power use they should be shot.
Unless it's using a cellphone technology that we've never heard of it's still radiating and sending and receiving data and acting like a huge red "come and get me" marker. A blackberry is much stealthier.
IF they'd kept the original PalmOS model and followed it to cheaper devices you'd be seeing Palms instead of Ti graphing calculators as the standard handheld for schoolkids by now... which would have translated into massive sales as the kids grew up. But Palm decided they HAD to go head to head against the Pocket PC, and threw away most of the advantages of the small, tight, lightweight Palm OS while keeping most of its disadvantages with PalmOS 5.
Hasn't this already been seen, a couple months ago when Dell announced it?
It's not just dual boot, the Linux boot is on a low power ARM CPU, so not only does it boot fast you should get significantly more battery life when running Linux.
Making those graphs into Flash animations provided zero useful information, as is typical for flash snippets.
I want to find "patient zero" for the idea that animating the drawing of a static graph was cool, and go back in time and force-feed him a copy of "The Visual Display of Qualitative Information" until he's coughing up statistics.
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It's Microsoft that is forcing them to do it, though. The manufacturers *asked* Microsoft to let them keep shipping XP. It's Microsoft that's saying "you have to support both operating systems, or just Vista, even if your customers are asking for XP".
Engines of our Ingenuity is the obvious one.
Or were you talking about recording at home and then time-shifting to the office or the car, for which satellite radio would still hold a significant lead in convenience?
I have one word for you: podcasts.
Time shifting is more convenient than broadcast now.
I'm sorry, but surely in the case of XP, everyone says THAT is the one that has the better fuel economy, and improves performance.
Um, yes, that's the one I'm talking about. Learn to read, idiot.
Dell charged people *upgrading to XP* $20 for the upgrade and $130 for a copy of Vista they didn't want *in addition* to the copy of XP they were actually using.
1. I am not a lawyer, but Lawrence Lessig is, and his interpretation of the "progress clause" differs from yours.
2. The fact that there are limitations for interoperability means that the "exclusive right" is not absolute. The fact that the specific form of interoperability referenced by the DMCA and by later rulings from the Copyright Office is for a different purpose doesn't change the fact that the "exclusive right" referred to is not absolute. There are literally thousands of other examples of limitations to this "exclusive right", all the way back to the explicit exclusions a couple of hundred years ago of typefaces and cooking recipes from copyright protection. This is a broad and general class of limitations with centuries of precedent behind it... the DMCA *had* to have at least some allowance for it or it wouldn't have passed any kind of judicial review.
RTFA. Lenovo didn't provide a breakdown of the fees, but Dell did: their charge was $20 for installing XP *instead of* Vista, and $130 for providing a Vista license (which the user didn't want) as well.
This is a situation where the car was built with no engine, and the work required for installing either engine is the same, and there's zero warehouse costs for the engine, and the car manufacturer wanted and asked the engine manufacturer to keep the right to install the 2006 engine, but the engine manufacturer said they were only allowed to install the 2008 engine even though it had lower fuel efficiency and significantly reduced the car's performance and maneuverability.
I'm sure people like Bill Gates would have paid for something that would detect and intercept incoming pies. They're a more credible threat for a well funded and high profile market.
The purpose of copyright is not "rewarding people who deserve to be rewarded", it's "promoting the advancement of the arts and sciences". Allowing interoperability is explicitly called out as an exception to the DMCA for this very reason.
There are two general ways for a cell-based network to operate. First, the device can periodically poll the cellular network to let the network know where it is... this is how cellphones and similar devices work. Second, the device can be passive, and the network broadcasts the message. This is how old-style pagers work, and why pagers can run for a couple of weeks on a single AAA cell. The disadvantage of this technique is that all the towers have to broadcast all messages all the time.
This "polling the network" to keep continually in touch and on-line is why cellphones only have a day or two of "standby" time.
A device like a blackberry could operate in a semi-passive mode, only updating its location on the network occasionally, and letting the network search for it otherwise. For email, even if the search took a minute or two, it wouldn't matter: this kind of latency would be acceptable.
This is far more power efficient than the system you mentioned using latency.
I'm sorry, I can't even parse this enough to figure out whether I should be offended or not. I didn't mention any kind of system, and latency isn't a system or part of a system, latency is a characteristic of a system... a side effect. What in the blessed name of Metcalfe's sainted aunt are you talking about?
Can you swim?
Bush lost because he made brassica look charismatic.
Why can Apple package an OS with a browser and not get done for anti competitive behavour?
Apple has less than 10% market share.
Why are we against one monoply and for another ?
Flash is evil too.
The acceptable latency for email is much higher... if you send someone an email you're not sitting there with a brick against your face waiting for them to get it and reply, if it takes a few minutes, even, that's pretty good. Many mail servers have longer internal latency than that. Given the power budget for these things, if RIM don't take advantage of that to reduce the power use they should be shot.
They're using Walmart's new Instore Cookie System.
Unless it's using a cellphone technology that we've never heard of it's still radiating and sending and receiving data and acting like a huge red "come and get me" marker. A blackberry is much stealthier.
I haven't upgraded to Palm OS 5 yet, and when my current PDA expires I'll probably look around online for another Palm OS 4 device.
The Prez doesn't have a cellphone?
You just have stubborn gens.
IF they'd kept the original PalmOS model and followed it to cheaper devices you'd be seeing Palms instead of Ti graphing calculators as the standard handheld for schoolkids by now... which would have translated into massive sales as the kids grew up. But Palm decided they HAD to go head to head against the Pocket PC, and threw away most of the advantages of the small, tight, lightweight Palm OS while keeping most of its disadvantages with PalmOS 5.
Hasn't this already been seen, a couple months ago when Dell announced it?
It's not just dual boot, the Linux boot is on a low power ARM CPU, so not only does it boot fast you should get significantly more battery life when running Linux.
So is that where "up to on average" comes in, or was the author just overdosing on weasel words?
"Quantitative", you idiot.
Making those graphs into Flash animations provided zero useful information, as is typical for flash snippets.
I want to find "patient zero" for the idea that animating the drawing of a static graph was cool, and go back in time and force-feed him a copy of "The Visual Display of Qualitative Information" until he's coughing up statistics.
Meme is pronounced similarly to gene. Is that "jeen", "jay nay", or "jee nee"? :)