Yep. Nokia sat on what was a cutting-edge mobile OS at the time of its introduction, and just murdered it through neglect. Remember, EPOC ran a full web browser on a mobile device in 2000. Opera for EOPC did everything my desktop browser did within 16mb of RAM and multitasked properly besides. Symbian did multitasking from the beginning, something that iOS took years to get together. All of those developers, and that huge head start, and they couldn't clean up the OS after nearly a decade? Seriously? And the Nokia software for desktop computers has always been a huge steaming pile of junk. Still is.
Symbian^3 looks nice. But Nokia just took too damned long getting it out the door, had too many false starts and dead ends along the way, and in the process application developers lost interest and moved on.
The USA is already a backwater for GSM service. I pay too much for AT&T, there is no competition on price or features, and now what little pathetic choice I have will be taken away. I don't want crappy proprietary technology, I want to be able to use real mobile phones that I can take with me anywhere in the world. Barring Japan and Korea, for some reason.
The people who support Gadhafi do so because they're either complicit in his crimes or they're being paid to do so. There is no hearts and minds problem, there is a staying alive problem. They need weapons with which to kill the people who are trying to kill them. War hasn't changed one iota - without the manpower and the weapons to win, "hearts and minds" don't mean anything.
Yes, Mass, the state where I practice, is the other.
And we should be clear here: while there may be a stretch interpretation of these statutes that they be employed this way, it's by no means the ONLY reasonable interpretation of the statute, or even the most reasonable one. Criminal statutes, in order to be constitutional, must be construed NARROWLY in favor of the alleged perpetrator. They also cannot be interpreted in such a way that they conflict with guaranteed rights to (for instance) report on events taking place in the public eye.
The only reason these laws are being applied in this fashion is to intimidate the hell out of people whenever they're in contact with a cop, and to rob them of their ability to prove anything regarding what the cop says or does to them. The point is to allow police officers to verbally abuse citizens, and for those citizens to have no recourse.
It took the USA about 100 years to join the Berne Convention, and now the terms and conditions of treaties like TRIPS and WIPO is basically written by American corporations, for American corporations. Why should any work continue to be copyrighted for 99 years after the death of its creator? Whom, other than idle heirs and immortal corporations, does this benefit?
Yeah, countries (not just the USA) make things that happen outside of their own borders illegal all the time. Many countries restrict what their citizens may do, even when they're abroad. So a US citizen can be charged at home for engaging a child prostitute in Thailand, or a Singaporean prosecuted for smoking pot in Amsterdam. France gives itself the right to charge anyone who harms the French state in any of a variety of ways. National legislatures give themselves all kinds of crazy powers, but the question is always whether they'd be able to extradite. In the case of someone like Assange, unless he f'ed up and travelled to a US client state the answer is almost certainly "no." Most bilateral extradition treaties expressly exempt "political crimes" from extraditable offenses, and any state can refuse to extradite if it finds there was no valid basis or jurisdiction, if doing so would violate international human rights norms, would subject the accused to torture or other illegal treatment, etc.
"We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment." No, I'm pretty sure that's not true. But that's fine guys, go on turning out Chinese sweatshop products anyway. I'm sure someone will be stupid enough to buy them.
There's a reason they did this in California. The first is that it harasses the defendant by forcing him to defend a suit in a place where he doesn't live. The second is that California is where most of the USA's IP lawyers keep their crypts, and where SECA is headquartered, and they can't be bothered to find/hire someone barred in New Jersey or Massachusetts to pursue a case there. Yes, they really are that lazy. The special appearance was absolutely the right thing to do.
When I read Sony's application I knew there would be massive jurisdiction problems. I don't think the Sony Network agreement, even if the court finds that geohot agreed to it (good luck!), was written to cover this kind of litigation, and the rest of the bases for jurisdiction (Youtube? Paypal? Really, overpaid corporate law jerks?) are junk. The response is correct, too, that the Sony action seems to be bootstrapping jurisdiction for everyone else named through poor old geohot, which isn't going to fly. And it's also correct that there just isn't a good legal basis for issuing a TRO, which is supposed to be a TEMPORARY order in emergencies where there is a serious danger of impending harm.
Yep. Either way, the concept is neat but pointless. In 50 or 100 years, no one is going to have the ancient tech necessary to read this and the company that maintains the web sites won't exist. If it were self-contained it might have a slightly longer shelf-life, but seriously: does anyone believe that mobile phones (in whatever form they'll exist) will have bluetooth in a few decades? When's the last time anyone has seen an Ir transceiver on a new mobile phone?
Endless discovery is what allows huge corporations to bury people who have done nothing wrong. It is what allowed Montsanto to bankrupt unknown numbers of farmers, seed cleaners, and other people who likely did nothing wrong, because it's discover that allowed Montsanto to keep dragging these people to pointless depositions, one after the other. And because the judges in the USA don't usually interest themselves in this process unless someone objects, and since you need a lawyer to do that, it means that the guy with the deepest pockets can just harass the hell out of you until you die.
That's what problems your precious discovery costs you "justice" system. That's not the only flaw with America's adversarial system, but it sure as hell doesn't help. In many other countries, a magistrate judge oversees this process and ensures that it doesn't unfairly burden anyone.
First of all, that's rubbish. Articles 19, 20, 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India guarantee most of the same freedoms that people in any other democracy enjoy.
As for this move, we understand their position, but we think it's wrong. Or is the concept of critical analysis too difficult?
No. What's going to happen is the self-righteous goody-goody people in our society who never drink, never screw, never do anything wrong at all are going to get even worse about judging those of us who know how to have a good time. And the rest of us are going to stay silent and pretend to agree, because we're petrified of being judged ourselves by puritanical pricks who seem to be in charge of everything.
I built a frankencomputer with the same budget limit, but I used lots of scavenged / recycled / outdated components where it didn't matter much. So the keyboard is an old discarded iMac jobby, the mouse is a no-brand PS/2, the monitor is a Viewsonic 21" CRT that someone left at the curb on recycling day, and the case was an extremely ancient IBM Aptiva. As long as it's ATX, it will fit (in this case, from 1998, and it made no difference). I also limited my new purchases to the absolute essentials, and picked everything else up from the discount / return rack. Result? I spent the same as they did, but have an optical drive, 2 gigs of ram, a respectable video card, and an Athlon II X4. Shweet.
Yeah, and they also work like crap and have crap for UIs.
No, the OP is right and the snide AC who tried to blame the USA is wrong. Despite their massive engineering workforce, there is still stunningly little original design happening in China.
There are already dozens and dozens of devices like this one, tablets running android based on ARM processors of various flavors, made by no-name Chinese manufacturers. Why buy from Cisco for $1000 something I can already get, right now, from various made-in-China web sites for a couple of hundred bucks?
No. That tidal wave will never stop rolling in, bringing in wave after wave of new responses to three-year-old posts, all saying "I am having this problem too, please email me at isuckdonkeys@aol.com with solution."
Post-doc biologists at Harvard have to publish 70 papers in 7 years (if memory serves) to even qualify for a junior faculty position. There's no way that a scientist can publish ten papers per year that are worth jack squat, and the result is that most of the papers coming out of Harvard are garbage that get published because of where they come from. This isn't a China-only problem.
I heard the same thing about academic credentials from my friends on various grad faculties. They simply cannot depend on any of the transcripts, CVs, or recommendations they get from China. There are so many universities that no one has ever heard of that it's basically impossible to confirm anything. And professors in China simply don't write rec letters. When asked, they do what only piss-poor professors in the USA do - they just have the student write the thing and they sign it, unread. If the situation is really bad, the student signs the thing too.
I owned four different Palm machines and was looking forward to a GSM version of the Pre. Now that they finally have something worth saving again, hopefully they'll live to fight another day.
Regimes that murder lots of people always use "national sovereignty" as a shield against criticism.
Who are we? We are the free world. And if we can't recognize that all men have inalienable rights, and that those rights take precedence over the claims of dead-eyed murders to an absolute right of control, then why the hell do we exist?
Even? I've been using a succession of dumb phones and then Symbian smartphones to tether for years and years, first via IrDA, then USB cable and then via bluetooth. When I hear iPhone users talking about this like it's the next great thing, I think (honestly) that they're a bunch of freaking imbeciles.
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Yep. Nokia sat on what was a cutting-edge mobile OS at the time of its introduction, and just murdered it through neglect. Remember, EPOC ran a full web browser on a mobile device in 2000. Opera for EOPC did everything my desktop browser did within 16mb of RAM and multitasked properly besides. Symbian did multitasking from the beginning, something that iOS took years to get together. All of those developers, and that huge head start, and they couldn't clean up the OS after nearly a decade? Seriously? And the Nokia software for desktop computers has always been a huge steaming pile of junk. Still is.
Symbian^3 looks nice. But Nokia just took too damned long getting it out the door, had too many false starts and dead ends along the way, and in the process application developers lost interest and moved on.
The USA is already a backwater for GSM service. I pay too much for AT&T, there is no competition on price or features, and now what little pathetic choice I have will be taken away. I don't want crappy proprietary technology, I want to be able to use real mobile phones that I can take with me anywhere in the world. Barring Japan and Korea, for some reason.
The people who support Gadhafi do so because they're either complicit in his crimes or they're being paid to do so. There is no hearts and minds problem, there is a staying alive problem. They need weapons with which to kill the people who are trying to kill them. War hasn't changed one iota - without the manpower and the weapons to win, "hearts and minds" don't mean anything.
Yes, Mass, the state where I practice, is the other.
And we should be clear here: while there may be a stretch interpretation of these statutes that they be employed this way, it's by no means the ONLY reasonable interpretation of the statute, or even the most reasonable one. Criminal statutes, in order to be constitutional, must be construed NARROWLY in favor of the alleged perpetrator. They also cannot be interpreted in such a way that they conflict with guaranteed rights to (for instance) report on events taking place in the public eye.
The only reason these laws are being applied in this fashion is to intimidate the hell out of people whenever they're in contact with a cop, and to rob them of their ability to prove anything regarding what the cop says or does to them. The point is to allow police officers to verbally abuse citizens, and for those citizens to have no recourse.
It took the USA about 100 years to join the Berne Convention, and now the terms and conditions of treaties like TRIPS and WIPO is basically written by American corporations, for American corporations. Why should any work continue to be copyrighted for 99 years after the death of its creator? Whom, other than idle heirs and immortal corporations, does this benefit?
Yeah, countries (not just the USA) make things that happen outside of their own borders illegal all the time. Many countries restrict what their citizens may do, even when they're abroad. So a US citizen can be charged at home for engaging a child prostitute in Thailand, or a Singaporean prosecuted for smoking pot in Amsterdam. France gives itself the right to charge anyone who harms the French state in any of a variety of ways. National legislatures give themselves all kinds of crazy powers, but the question is always whether they'd be able to extradite. In the case of someone like Assange, unless he f'ed up and travelled to a US client state the answer is almost certainly "no." Most bilateral extradition treaties expressly exempt "political crimes" from extraditable offenses, and any state can refuse to extradite if it finds there was no valid basis or jurisdiction, if doing so would violate international human rights norms, would subject the accused to torture or other illegal treatment, etc.
"We understand the sensitivity of this historic moment."
No, I'm pretty sure that's not true. But that's fine guys, go on turning out Chinese sweatshop products anyway. I'm sure someone will be stupid enough to buy them.
There's a reason they did this in California. The first is that it harasses the defendant by forcing him to defend a suit in a place where he doesn't live. The second is that California is where most of the USA's IP lawyers keep their crypts, and where SECA is headquartered, and they can't be bothered to find/hire someone barred in New Jersey or Massachusetts to pursue a case there. Yes, they really are that lazy. The special appearance was absolutely the right thing to do.
When I read Sony's application I knew there would be massive jurisdiction problems. I don't think the Sony Network agreement, even if the court finds that geohot agreed to it (good luck!), was written to cover this kind of litigation, and the rest of the bases for jurisdiction (Youtube? Paypal? Really, overpaid corporate law jerks?) are junk. The response is correct, too, that the Sony action seems to be bootstrapping jurisdiction for everyone else named through poor old geohot, which isn't going to fly. And it's also correct that there just isn't a good legal basis for issuing a TRO, which is supposed to be a TEMPORARY order in emergencies where there is a serious danger of impending harm.
IAAL, but not THIS kind of lawyer.
Because people who don't know what it is would laugh at it? That's your gold standard, huh? Nice.
Yep. Either way, the concept is neat but pointless. In 50 or 100 years, no one is going to have the ancient tech necessary to read this and the company that maintains the web sites won't exist. If it were self-contained it might have a slightly longer shelf-life, but seriously: does anyone believe that mobile phones (in whatever form they'll exist) will have bluetooth in a few decades? When's the last time anyone has seen an Ir transceiver on a new mobile phone?
Endless discovery is what allows huge corporations to bury people who have done nothing wrong. It is what allowed Montsanto to bankrupt unknown numbers of farmers, seed cleaners, and other people who likely did nothing wrong, because it's discover that allowed Montsanto to keep dragging these people to pointless depositions, one after the other. And because the judges in the USA don't usually interest themselves in this process unless someone objects, and since you need a lawyer to do that, it means that the guy with the deepest pockets can just harass the hell out of you until you die.
That's what problems your precious discovery costs you "justice" system. That's not the only flaw with America's adversarial system, but it sure as hell doesn't help. In many other countries, a magistrate judge oversees this process and ensures that it doesn't unfairly burden anyone.
First of all, that's rubbish. Articles 19, 20, 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India guarantee most of the same freedoms that people in any other democracy enjoy.
As for this move, we understand their position, but we think it's wrong. Or is the concept of critical analysis too difficult?
No. What's going to happen is the self-righteous goody-goody people in our society who never drink, never screw, never do anything wrong at all are going to get even worse about judging those of us who know how to have a good time. And the rest of us are going to stay silent and pretend to agree, because we're petrified of being judged ourselves by puritanical pricks who seem to be in charge of everything.
I built a frankencomputer with the same budget limit, but I used lots of scavenged / recycled / outdated components where it didn't matter much. So the keyboard is an old discarded iMac jobby, the mouse is a no-brand PS/2, the monitor is a Viewsonic 21" CRT that someone left at the curb on recycling day, and the case was an extremely ancient IBM Aptiva. As long as it's ATX, it will fit (in this case, from 1998, and it made no difference). I also limited my new purchases to the absolute essentials, and picked everything else up from the discount / return rack. Result? I spent the same as they did, but have an optical drive, 2 gigs of ram, a respectable video card, and an Athlon II X4. Shweet.
Yeah, and they also work like crap and have crap for UIs.
No, the OP is right and the snide AC who tried to blame the USA is wrong. Despite their massive engineering workforce, there is still stunningly little original design happening in China.
There are already dozens and dozens of devices like this one, tablets running android based on ARM processors of various flavors, made by no-name Chinese manufacturers. Why buy from Cisco for $1000 something I can already get, right now, from various made-in-China web sites for a couple of hundred bucks?
No. That tidal wave will never stop rolling in, bringing in wave after wave of new responses to three-year-old posts, all saying "I am having this problem too, please email me at isuckdonkeys@aol.com with solution."
That's how much my classic Fiat weighs.
I've taken it on the highway. It was terrifying.
My Symbian smart phones have been multitasking since, I suppose, 2005? Earlier? My Psion could do real multitasking long before that.
iOS4 has half-arsed multitasking as of yesterday. Colour me unimpressed.
Post-doc biologists at Harvard have to publish 70 papers in 7 years (if memory serves) to even qualify for a junior faculty position. There's no way that a scientist can publish ten papers per year that are worth jack squat, and the result is that most of the papers coming out of Harvard are garbage that get published because of where they come from. This isn't a China-only problem.
I heard the same thing about academic credentials from my friends on various grad faculties. They simply cannot depend on any of the transcripts, CVs, or recommendations they get from China. There are so many universities that no one has ever heard of that it's basically impossible to confirm anything. And professors in China simply don't write rec letters. When asked, they do what only piss-poor professors in the USA do - they just have the student write the thing and they sign it, unread. If the situation is really bad, the student signs the thing too.
I owned four different Palm machines and was looking forward to a GSM version of the Pre. Now that they finally have something worth saving again, hopefully they'll live to fight another day.
Regimes that murder lots of people always use "national sovereignty" as a shield against criticism.
Who are we? We are the free world. And if we can't recognize that all men have inalienable rights, and that those rights take precedence over the claims of dead-eyed murders to an absolute right of control, then why the hell do we exist?
Even? I've been using a succession of dumb phones and then Symbian smartphones to tether for years and years, first via IrDA, then USB cable and then via bluetooth. When I hear iPhone users talking about this like it's the next great thing, I think (honestly) that they're a bunch of freaking imbeciles.
It's Harvard. If they write in normal English people might discover that the study is stupid. See also: every sociology department in the world.