I wonder what Microsoft, Apple, Creative, Phillips, Diamond, and the makers of other products associated with ripping/burning to/from mp3/wma think of this. Are they speaking up?
You know, when you want to circumvent the existing install checker on the average PC upgrade edition of a product, you usually have to murk around with the registry or apply cracks with non-standard install methods... things that would confuse the average joe newby pirate. But on the MacOS, you can crack your software with just a single drag of the mouse! Now that's what I call UI innovation.
I hate patents as much - no, make that more than - the next guy. I have a basic objection to the idea of intellectual property. I don't believe ideas can be owned, no matter how much work goes into producing and communicating them. BUT - Brazil has established a patent system, and declared this patent valid. To go back on that simply because it's convienient - or even because of extreme duress - speaks volumes about Brazil's respect for its own laws and procedures. Imagine if we applied this logic to other scenerios. You can't choose whether to respect the value of law on a case-by-case basis.
Brazil has established that its law now works this way: Follow the law, unless you have a really really really good reason to want to break it. THat's a disasterous way to run a county. It makes the law itself useless.
Now, if brazil wanted to dismantle it's patent system entirely through due process, I'd be all for that. But that's not what's going on here. Selective rule of law is.
10 years to learn to speak like an adult? I don't know many -actual- 10-year-olds (or 10 +18mo '' 11.5 year olds" who could pull it off. This kid's a quick learner!
Ahh, the wonders of moderation. Here I was raking up points as this went up to 4, Funny or so. THen I got hit with a bunch of overrateds which were arguably fair, since I was mildly amusing at best. And now an off-topic. Don't think I'd agree with that, but hey, it's only karma..
Severl liberetarian/. readers (like myslef) have said time and time again "so what if MS has a monopoly. It's not the gov'ts job to interfere." Which is true. But there's another point to make. This so-called monopoly is pretty damn limited.
In the findings of fact, it says that MS has a monopoly on desktop-level operating systems for the x86 architecture. So freaking what? They dont have any influence anymore on powerpc. or spark. or whatever. They don't have a monopoly (yet) on server OSes. They don't have the embedded market wrapped up (even though they're trying). They don't make the omst popular pvr (tivo). They dominate one, limiting aspect of the computing industry.
To be a monopoly, they've got to have such extensive control that other distributors are effectively cut off from supplying a competing product. Well guess what? ANYONE is free to write a desktop os for x86. The resources are there, and available. All thats standing in the way is consumer demand and the market's desire to relative uniformity and compatibility. If the market loses interest in MS, MS loses its hold. the market is still in power, not the company. This isn't like oil or the phone lines - microsoft doesn't have all the raw mateirals locked up. There is a freaking difference.
End rant.
BTW - I'm no MS troll. I can't stand most MS products (earlier versions of word and to an extent win2k aside) and find its business practices offensive (just not illegal).
I really hate "slashdot is not freshmeat" posts ..
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2.4.9 Kernel Released
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· Score: 0, Troll
... but that's what I think every time I see a new kernel version story. These things are popped out often enough. Shouldn't they be reserved for -major- revisions and interesting new feature additions?
When 2.4 was released, that was a big deal. When ReiserFS got included, that was a big deal. 2.4.9? Not such a bid deal.
I knew these things were still being sold for embedded and similar use, but can consumers still pick them up (and related components - motherboards and cards and stuff) in signle quantities? I could always use an extra machine built on the cheep.
KDE has to turn around and chase Gnome till it tag's it? It Miquel's house "base?"
There's a lot of /. talk about open-sourcing it ..
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Be Buyout Looms Closer
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· Score: 2, Interesting
... and even throwing the UI on top of OS kernels - but the tracker and deskbar, the cornerstones of the UI, are already open source... opentracker.org.
When that all went down, I was still pretty young and had nevr heard the phrase "intellectual property" before. I thought "duh, what a stupid concept" and that you could only -own- physical items that can't be distributed without removing them from the current owner. Now that I'm much older and more educated about these idea, I STILL think that.
What's obvious to a pre-teen should be obvious to the gov't, don't ya think?
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Hey, it works on whales ... I hear it helped Bill get Monica ...
If one Linus doesn't scale ... maybe we should try out a beowolf cluster of Linuses.
Linuses? Linusi?
"See, I knew it: Little is better."
Which girls have you been arguing this with, anyway?
I wonder what Microsoft, Apple, Creative, Phillips, Diamond, and the makers of other products associated with ripping/burning to/from mp3/wma think of this. Are they speaking up?
You know, when you want to circumvent the existing install checker on the average PC upgrade edition of a product, you usually have to murk around with the registry or apply cracks with non-standard install methods ... things that would confuse the average joe newby pirate. But on the MacOS, you can crack your software with just a single drag of the mouse! Now that's what I call UI innovation.
They'll need OnStar if they want ads to notify them of all the great sites around the Atlantic.
What do you get when you encrypt "Whoohoo!" with CSS?
you mean like this?
g sa fe=off&q=weirdness&spell=1
http://images.google.com/images?num=20&hl=en&im
Did he say stuff that matters?
or as they say in your homeland ... "Onnellinen syntymäpäivä!"
Wow ... A 10 year old programmed that whole kernel by himself? ... oh wait, maybe I should reread that ...
I hate patents as much - no, make that more than - the next guy. I have a basic objection to the idea of intellectual property. I don't believe ideas can be owned, no matter how much work goes into producing and communicating them. BUT - Brazil has established a patent system, and declared this patent valid. To go back on that simply because it's convienient - or even because of extreme duress - speaks volumes about Brazil's respect for its own laws and procedures. Imagine if we applied this logic to other scenerios. You can't choose whether to respect the value of law on a case-by-case basis.
Brazil has established that its law now works this way: Follow the law, unless you have a really really really good reason to want to break it. THat's a disasterous way to run a county. It makes the law itself useless.
Now, if brazil wanted to dismantle it's patent system entirely through due process, I'd be all for that. But that's not what's going on here. Selective rule of law is.
10 years to learn to speak like an adult? I don't know many -actual- 10-year-olds (or 10 +18mo '' 11.5 year olds" who could pull it off. This kid's a quick learner!
Ahh, the wonders of moderation. Here I was raking up points as this went up to 4, Funny or so. THen I got hit with a bunch of overrateds which were arguably fair, since I was mildly amusing at best. And now an off-topic. Don't think I'd agree with that, but hey, it's only karma ..
"Or the question is: can Linux beats AIX?"
I don't know. Cans it?
Can we get some Imac-style flavors too? I want a Moccachino and a Frappachino PC, please.
Severl liberetarian /. readers (like myslef) have said time and time again "so what if MS has a monopoly. It's not the gov'ts job to interfere." Which is true. But there's another point to make. This so-called monopoly is pretty damn limited.
In the findings of fact, it says that MS has a monopoly on desktop-level operating systems for the x86 architecture. So freaking what? They dont have any influence anymore on powerpc. or spark. or whatever. They don't have a monopoly (yet) on server OSes. They don't have the embedded market wrapped up (even though they're trying). They don't make the omst popular pvr (tivo). They dominate one, limiting aspect of the computing industry.
To be a monopoly, they've got to have such extensive control that other distributors are effectively cut off from supplying a competing product. Well guess what? ANYONE is free to write a desktop os for x86. The resources are there, and available. All thats standing in the way is consumer demand and the market's desire to relative uniformity and compatibility. If the market loses interest in MS, MS loses its hold. the market is still in power, not the company. This isn't like oil or the phone lines - microsoft doesn't have all the raw mateirals locked up. There is a freaking difference.
End rant.
BTW - I'm no MS troll. I can't stand most MS products (earlier versions of word and to an extent win2k aside) and find its business practices offensive (just not illegal).
... but that's what I think every time I see a new kernel version story. These things are popped out often enough. Shouldn't they be reserved for -major- revisions and interesting new feature additions?
When 2.4 was released, that was a big deal. When ReiserFS got included, that was a big deal. 2.4.9? Not such a bid deal.
I knew these things were still being sold for embedded and similar use, but can consumers still pick them up (and related components - motherboards and cards and stuff) in signle quantities? I could always use an extra machine built on the cheep.
KDE has to turn around and chase Gnome till it tag's it? It Miquel's house "base?"
... and even throwing the UI on top of OS kernels - but the tracker and deskbar, the cornerstones of the UI, are already open source ... opentracker.org.
When that all went down, I was still pretty young and had nevr heard the phrase "intellectual property" before. I thought "duh, what a stupid concept" and that you could only -own- physical items that can't be distributed without removing them from the current owner. Now that I'm much older and more educated about these idea, I STILL think that.
What's obvious to a pre-teen should be obvious to the gov't, don't ya think?
... this guy ruined the end of War of the Worlds for me! I was going to read that just as soon as I found out what happened at the end of Titanic!
And for a wireless cam too. Oh the irony.
Porn? Quake? Porn with Quake mods? Natalie Portman? what else do we normally talk about with new displays or display technology?
Ah hell, I'll just do a "predicted posts" style post instead.