My take-away from a media law course was that this is not at all the case. Courts tend to err on the side of not a work-for-hire, unless specified in writing. So most contracts involving works covered by copyright contain language along the lines of "everything produced is a work-for-hire, and in the case that it's not considered a work-for-hire (i.e. by the courts), the contracted party transfers all rights to the employer." IANAL, YMMV.
Not being able to rebind four-finger-horizontal-swipe is super annoying. App switch, really? It would be amazing if it went to the next/previous virtual desktop in spaces instead.
RE4 was super frustrating for that. Take the rifle, zoom in, look around, shoot the only baddie, take a step forward, and suddenly there is a horde of baddies on a path that was otherwise empty for 500m a second before? F-that.
I run into this all the time, though I can't think of a good example off the top of my head. Typically when symbols/numbers are involved. Ah, try searching for the string/number -100.
SDHC is artificially capped at 32 gigs. Once SDXC devices start rolling out we'll see higher capacities.
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So have you heard about Google TV? It seems Google is about ready to offer TV over IP. That's going to hose up the business model for most cable TV providers. It's disruptive. If Google delivers TV well I'll be moving to IP only on my Comcast cable connection (right now I have the triple play), and I imagine I'm not alone there. I've got 50Mbps down, and that's more than fine both for my web surfing and to drive all of my TVs with video. It will probably put the brakes on the one hour a year of local programming I usually watch, but I won't miss it.
I'm glad someone else sees the implications of this. Cable providers are done.
Easy solutions: cmd-p, cmd-s, cmd-,, cmd-+/-, cmd-h, cmd-b, you'll have to add your own, cmd-o, cmd-u, cmd-t about: enter Only one that isn't quicker to do from the keyboard is addons, and at least in OSX you can just add your own binding for it in the keyboard preferences.
But Steve also physically forbids you from buying apps in other stores. This situation is only comparable to being able to walk to the porn store next door if in that scenario Steve has a hired thug standing outside it preventing you from shopping there.
Two problems: your analogy is flawed and your dismissal of Walmart concerns is missing context.
First, to address the bad analogy. What Apple is doing is not akin to simply not stocking a product. Because of the DRM on the iPhone, they're also preventing you from buying product at another store. To be doing the same thing, Walmart would have to not carry the product, and also forbid you from shopping at stores that did carry it. It's like Walmart sent goons to stand outside other stores and prevent you from entering.
Second, and bad analogy aside, it's possible to be concerned about Walmart without having to be mad at every other store for picking which products to stock. The problem with Walmart is that it's so huge that it exerts powerful effects on its supply chain, so much so that it can sometimes dictate which products even make it to market, and in what form. It can do this in a way that other retailers simply cannot. Do you really want one company dictating what products are available in an entire market?
Painful apps are better than no apps. For example, both the GIMP and Audacity are cross-platform ports to OSX that look and handle terribly compared to native apps. However, I'd much rather have ugly open source photo/audio editing apps than none at all, which is the alternative were cross-platform toolkits banned on OSX.
Oh, absolutely downgrading priority by phone operators seems like a terrible idea. But allowing them to up the priority doesn't increase risk it just increases costs - so measure it to keep it under control.
With a system like this, you could simply measure the number of overrides by each operator. If one stands out as ignoring the system too much, train/fire/demote them and you're good-to-go.
Although Obama has increased proactive disclosure, so it could be that fewer requests are needed for trivial data, and more requests are for data that is more interesting (and more likely to be exempt).
Fair enough. I'm mostly curious if any of them offer the source. Even better, if they use any GPLv3 software, they'd need to allow for users to install their own firmware. The temptation to build a custom firmware would be overwhelming. Maybe I could fix my Sharp's frustrating lack of customizable input names.:D
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My take-away from a media law course was that this is not at all the case. Courts tend to err on the side of not a work-for-hire, unless specified in writing. So most contracts involving works covered by copyright contain language along the lines of "everything produced is a work-for-hire, and in the case that it's not considered a work-for-hire (i.e. by the courts), the contracted party transfers all rights to the employer." IANAL, YMMV.
Not being able to rebind four-finger-horizontal-swipe is super annoying. App switch, really? It would be amazing if it went to the next/previous virtual desktop in spaces instead.
RE4 was super frustrating for that. Take the rifle, zoom in, look around, shoot the only baddie, take a step forward, and suddenly there is a horde of baddies on a path that was otherwise empty for 500m a second before? F-that.
The New York Times isn't going anywhere very soon.
Because the newspaper industry is thriving these days and it's inconceivable a paper could close up shop.
I run into this all the time, though I can't think of a good example off the top of my head. Typically when symbols/numbers are involved. Ah, try searching for the string/number -100.
SDHC is artificially capped at 32 gigs. Once SDXC devices start rolling out we'll see higher capacities.
So have you heard about Google TV? It seems Google is about ready to offer TV over IP. That's going to hose up the business model for most cable TV providers. It's disruptive. If Google delivers TV well I'll be moving to IP only on my Comcast cable connection (right now I have the triple play), and I imagine I'm not alone there. I've got 50Mbps down, and that's more than fine both for my web surfing and to drive all of my TVs with video. It will probably put the brakes on the one hour a year of local programming I usually watch, but I won't miss it.
I'm glad someone else sees the implications of this. Cable providers are done.
Sounds like a business opportunity to start a rock climbing facility in Windsor.
Easy solutions: cmd-p, cmd-s, cmd-,, cmd-+/-, cmd-h, cmd-b, you'll have to add your own, cmd-o, cmd-u, cmd-t about: enter
Only one that isn't quicker to do from the keyboard is addons, and at least in OSX you can just add your own binding for it in the keyboard preferences.
System Preferences\Keyboard\Keyboard Shortcuts. You can bind shortcuts to any menu command in any application.
People ignore experts all the time! Just think about how many people still smoke or don't wear seatbelts.
Perhaps they're the normal ones and you're the odd one? Who's to say? Buy some good earphones or earplugs and the problem will go away.
But Steve also physically forbids you from buying apps in other stores. This situation is only comparable to being able to walk to the porn store next door if in that scenario Steve has a hired thug standing outside it preventing you from shopping there.
Two problems: your analogy is flawed and your dismissal of Walmart concerns is missing context.
First, to address the bad analogy. What Apple is doing is not akin to simply not stocking a product. Because of the DRM on the iPhone, they're also preventing you from buying product at another store. To be doing the same thing, Walmart would have to not carry the product, and also forbid you from shopping at stores that did carry it. It's like Walmart sent goons to stand outside other stores and prevent you from entering.
Second, and bad analogy aside, it's possible to be concerned about Walmart without having to be mad at every other store for picking which products to stock. The problem with Walmart is that it's so huge that it exerts powerful effects on its supply chain, so much so that it can sometimes dictate which products even make it to market, and in what form. It can do this in a way that other retailers simply cannot. Do you really want one company dictating what products are available in an entire market?
Last year the NYPD discovered over 6,000 victims of caller ID spoofing, who together lost a total of $15 million.
It's this already called fraud?
What if you put new tires on your Civic?
It's not clear what this means for life's ability to take hold in such a bleak environment
Really?
One doesn't have to be a monopoly in every industry: they can be a retail monopoly but not a manufacturing monopoly
Painful apps are better than no apps. For example, both the GIMP and Audacity are cross-platform ports to OSX that look and handle terribly compared to native apps. However, I'd much rather have ugly open source photo/audio editing apps than none at all, which is the alternative were cross-platform toolkits banned on OSX.
Buy a phone with WiFi and just use UMA?
Oh, absolutely downgrading priority by phone operators seems like a terrible idea. But allowing them to up the priority doesn't increase risk it just increases costs - so measure it to keep it under control.
With a system like this, you could simply measure the number of overrides by each operator. If one stands out as ignoring the system too much, train/fire/demote them and you're good-to-go.
Although Obama has increased proactive disclosure, so it could be that fewer requests are needed for trivial data, and more requests are for data that is more interesting (and more likely to be exempt).
Fair enough. I'm mostly curious if any of them offer the source. Even better, if they use any GPLv3 software, they'd need to allow for users to install their own firmware. The temptation to build a custom firmware would be overwhelming. Maybe I could fix my Sharp's frustrating lack of customizable input names. :D
That's really cool that Linux is being used in TVs now. Can you give any examples?