This is a case of the middleman not being at fault. The OEM's buy in bulk, the manufacturers encourage that with discounts. That seems entirely reasonable. Sometimes "not going the way you like it" does NOT in fact directly translate to "evil is afoot". In this case, a natural disaster impacted supply in a way that changed prices. Now prices are edging back to the norm. Some middlemen might have raised prices (and evidence of fixing in relation to this disaster, if found, should absolutely be used to prosecute to the fullest). But in the absence of such evidence, there doesn't seem to be a clear bad guy (aside perhaps from not being properly prepared for a natural disaster).
Being able to get away with something legally doesn't free you from social responsibility. So its more of "even if the laws of the land fall short, our social conscience can give us the will to use the tools of the market to fight back".
Look this is an admirable goal, an effort to bring down the cost of undergraduate education (and make materials more readily available to the public). But this trend of offering small prizes in exchange for creative/academic work is a race to the bottom. How long until the private sector tries this with more and more jobs? Its taking the 99designs approach to academia.
This. Plus their corporate policy on the rape of their employees ought to land everyone responsible in jail. (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1)
No, they can't. Maybe legally they can do what they want, but we as a society can hold them to a high standard of ethical behavior in a number of legal ways. We can pass laws regulating them - prohibiting blatant censorship. We can start a campaign to damage their brand and their uptake of new students by casting light on their censorship and its implications. We can work to cut off the corporate and community partnerships they form to drive and maintain their business. A corporation misbehaving does not render us powerless or without the right to respond. We have power (even in situations where they have far far more), and we have the right to fight.
Why rule on it when you can hold her in jail for 14 years? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31856198/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/attorney-freed-after-years-jail/)
That doesn't outweigh the Bush admin's decision to muzzle scientists on a range of issues when their views collided. That is about as anti-science as you can get.
Exactly. Or on the interview/sting itself, and drawing that information out of him? It was a good move for them to make, but some of that reported cost was an intentional and smart investment on Marriot's part rather than a cost.
But it is a good metaphor. If I spend time arranging the content in a book now, avoiding apple's software, I can send it to any publisher. Apple's software removes that ability, Apple's PR team makes it feel natural, and Apple's diehard fans defend it. How about instead of Photoshop I compared it it to something like using http://www.smashwords.com/ or http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html?
It was a legitimate source of complaint. I spend effort formatting my work, and then have to redo all of that effort if I want to sell my work outside their store? Look, they can pull that if they want, I just won't waste my time with their product. Frankly Apple deserves a robust competitor here who doesn't employ these restrictive tactics. Imagine if Adobe Photoshop tried this, and you could only sell photoshopped images in a Microsoft-Marketplace, giving Microsoft a cut. Oh, you are free to take the original photo and redo all that work to sell it elsewhere, so I guess anyone criticizing the move is part of the hippy "Adobe hates us for our freedom" crowd. PLEASE. No one buys that. And now we have a good reason to avoid buying Apple - their increasing efforts to exert control over users and our data.
Good communication is the key. Not email, or meetings, which are just mediums. Its all about the data being transferred. I've had meetings/status updates via email, bug tracking, chat, phone, in person, and in person stand ups. They all fail when the communication is poor, and succeed when it is clear and concise. With relation to the post itself, yes, I think it is a gimmick (especially "penalties" for not jumping through the right hoops). Invest in making sure the whole team understands how to communicate effectively. That will pay dividends that will help your company really grow.
I thought prohibiting students from sharing past copies of tests was a standard and acceptable method. Is it because they are using copyright to attack the practice?
It really is a shame seeing interesting technological advances and knowing people are mostly either thinking "how can we hurt people with this" or "how can we make money off of this".
You know that putting it in caps doesn't make it true, right?
It isn't arrogance to expect human rights to be respected when you do business, its ethics. So yes, we can blame google for staying in a repressive country, and following the rules. If they want to enact country specific censorship, they could block out that country's access to the site with "your country does not support basic human rights like freedom of speech."
Why is that understandable? As far as I know they are the first company to have such a restrictive EULA that covers the content produced with their product. Everyone else, from the makers of MS Word to Adobe Photoshop, let you sell what YOU create to whomever YOU choose. Plus, it isn't as simple as "just don't use it, now shut up and stop complaining". 1. This sets precedent, and I don't want to let this kind of greediness and restriction gain any foothold. 2. If no one criticizes it, Apple (and any company now considering similar terms in a EULA) would have no idea how alienating this is.
Regardless of whether the charges against him were true, I think they were brought with political intent to hunt him down. That said, making light of rape charges as "kinky" or the classic "surprise sex" is demeaning. If someone told you they were using protection, lied, and you had to worry about STD's, you wouldn't be laughing. The charges are serious, even if they were brought by assholes looking to stop Julian. If someone accused him of shooting someone, you wouldn't make fun of it as "kinky Nordic gunplay". (Or maybe you would, this is the slashdot).
Against the US military? Are you KIDDING? Guns won't do anything productive other than cost lives. IF this country somehow manages a revolution, it will NEED to be nonviolent.
How easy is it to move my work to another format? If I invest the time creating content in iBooks Author, and want to sell it elsewhere, will it be easy for me to do so? Or would I end up spending the same amount of time or more switching formats? Suddenly iBooks Author does not look like an attractive authoring tool. Imagine if photoshop pulled this crap. Oh you have a giant project with a ton of layers? Sell it in Adobe's store, or save to a format with no layers. Basically you are telling non technical users "start from scratch if you want to sell elsewhere", and technical users might have to jump through hoops as well if they use proprietary tags/css that aren't easily replicated outside of the program. So yeah, this article IS something.
Oops, please disregard, I had no idea what I was talking about! I think if it appears alongside the menu, instead of as a replacement, this would be an awesome idea.
Seems like Synapse, but with the ability to search commands inside programs as well as launch them. Couldn't that get a bit crowded? If I type "Open", I might mean geany one time, gimp another... Still its an interesting idea. I wonder if it will be available as an app, or just integrated into Unity (where it won't really see the same exposure).
Shorter Version: "Just curious, I checked it out on wikipedia and don't believe the scientists". Just poking fun. I doubt anyone predicted the water plume, but that's what makes it fascinating. We've seen what humanity's impact on the climate has done, and it turns out there are a number of natural processes that can kick in at any moment to further speed things up. In other words, we aren't as safe as we think we are. Also, if we imagine the water absorbing the excess CO2, and a process of cooling going on, as more and more CO2 is removed into the water, the temperature at the poles would sink progressively, leading to more ice being formed...etc. It isn't hard to imagine that. A big point to consider: even if we didn't cause the climate change - will it hurt us and is should we be doing something to slow it down or stop it?
+1 AC. There is a reason other file sharing companies are worried about being attacked. Just because the government went after one which appears to have made missteps does not mean they will continue exercising the same restraint. It is baffling anyone would think so when PIPA and SOPA are an express declaration they wish to do away with as much restrain on the matter as they can get away with. But here is a citation anyway of a draconian action with regards to copyright infringement.
Very little of that is relevant if it reduces the student's final book costs by 70%. I'll happily give Apple their book lock-in all day long if it saves me a few grand on textbooks. Wouldn't you?
Hell no. It would require my students to have apple hardware and software. That places a needless financial and technological limit on my students. I do however see a market vulnerability here. Apple wants to replace the textbook cartel lock-in with their own lock-in. A reasonably priced service/app for authors that allows the flexibility they deny could do very well. Especially since (at the college level at least) students are happy to make waves and protest exploitation. An enterprising organization could seize the upper hand and compete on cost, flexibility, and ethics.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a case of the middleman not being at fault. The OEM's buy in bulk, the manufacturers encourage that with discounts. That seems entirely reasonable. Sometimes "not going the way you like it" does NOT in fact directly translate to "evil is afoot". In this case, a natural disaster impacted supply in a way that changed prices. Now prices are edging back to the norm. Some middlemen might have raised prices (and evidence of fixing in relation to this disaster, if found, should absolutely be used to prosecute to the fullest). But in the absence of such evidence, there doesn't seem to be a clear bad guy (aside perhaps from not being properly prepared for a natural disaster).
Being able to get away with something legally doesn't free you from social responsibility. So its more of "even if the laws of the land fall short, our social conscience can give us the will to use the tools of the market to fight back".
Look this is an admirable goal, an effort to bring down the cost of undergraduate education (and make materials more readily available to the public). But this trend of offering small prizes in exchange for creative/academic work is a race to the bottom. How long until the private sector tries this with more and more jobs? Its taking the 99designs approach to academia.
This. Plus their corporate policy on the rape of their employees ought to land everyone responsible in jail. (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=3977702&page=1)
No, they can't. Maybe legally they can do what they want, but we as a society can hold them to a high standard of ethical behavior in a number of legal ways. We can pass laws regulating them - prohibiting blatant censorship. We can start a campaign to damage their brand and their uptake of new students by casting light on their censorship and its implications. We can work to cut off the corporate and community partnerships they form to drive and maintain their business. A corporation misbehaving does not render us powerless or without the right to respond. We have power (even in situations where they have far far more), and we have the right to fight.
Why rule on it when you can hold her in jail for 14 years? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31856198/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/attorney-freed-after-years-jail/)
That doesn't outweigh the Bush admin's decision to muzzle scientists on a range of issues when their views collided. That is about as anti-science as you can get.
Exactly. Or on the interview/sting itself, and drawing that information out of him? It was a good move for them to make, but some of that reported cost was an intentional and smart investment on Marriot's part rather than a cost.
But it is a good metaphor. If I spend time arranging the content in a book now, avoiding apple's software, I can send it to any publisher. Apple's software removes that ability, Apple's PR team makes it feel natural, and Apple's diehard fans defend it. How about instead of Photoshop I compared it it to something like using http://www.smashwords.com/ or http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html?
It was a legitimate source of complaint. I spend effort formatting my work, and then have to redo all of that effort if I want to sell my work outside their store? Look, they can pull that if they want, I just won't waste my time with their product. Frankly Apple deserves a robust competitor here who doesn't employ these restrictive tactics. Imagine if Adobe Photoshop tried this, and you could only sell photoshopped images in a Microsoft-Marketplace, giving Microsoft a cut. Oh, you are free to take the original photo and redo all that work to sell it elsewhere, so I guess anyone criticizing the move is part of the hippy "Adobe hates us for our freedom" crowd. PLEASE. No one buys that. And now we have a good reason to avoid buying Apple - their increasing efforts to exert control over users and our data.
Good communication is the key. Not email, or meetings, which are just mediums. Its all about the data being transferred. I've had meetings/status updates via email, bug tracking, chat, phone, in person, and in person stand ups. They all fail when the communication is poor, and succeed when it is clear and concise. With relation to the post itself, yes, I think it is a gimmick (especially "penalties" for not jumping through the right hoops). Invest in making sure the whole team understands how to communicate effectively. That will pay dividends that will help your company really grow.
That is an excellent point. I hope it will be easy to turn this off when it comes out in Firefox 13.
I thought prohibiting students from sharing past copies of tests was a standard and acceptable method. Is it because they are using copyright to attack the practice?
It really is a shame seeing interesting technological advances and knowing people are mostly either thinking "how can we hurt people with this" or "how can we make money off of this".
You know that putting it in caps doesn't make it true, right? It isn't arrogance to expect human rights to be respected when you do business, its ethics. So yes, we can blame google for staying in a repressive country, and following the rules. If they want to enact country specific censorship, they could block out that country's access to the site with "your country does not support basic human rights like freedom of speech."
Why is that understandable? As far as I know they are the first company to have such a restrictive EULA that covers the content produced with their product. Everyone else, from the makers of MS Word to Adobe Photoshop, let you sell what YOU create to whomever YOU choose. Plus, it isn't as simple as "just don't use it, now shut up and stop complaining". 1. This sets precedent, and I don't want to let this kind of greediness and restriction gain any foothold. 2. If no one criticizes it, Apple (and any company now considering similar terms in a EULA) would have no idea how alienating this is.
Regardless of whether the charges against him were true, I think they were brought with political intent to hunt him down. That said, making light of rape charges as "kinky" or the classic "surprise sex" is demeaning. If someone told you they were using protection, lied, and you had to worry about STD's, you wouldn't be laughing. The charges are serious, even if they were brought by assholes looking to stop Julian. If someone accused him of shooting someone, you wouldn't make fun of it as "kinky Nordic gunplay". (Or maybe you would, this is the slashdot).
Against the US military? Are you KIDDING? Guns won't do anything productive other than cost lives. IF this country somehow manages a revolution, it will NEED to be nonviolent.
How easy is it to move my work to another format? If I invest the time creating content in iBooks Author, and want to sell it elsewhere, will it be easy for me to do so? Or would I end up spending the same amount of time or more switching formats? Suddenly iBooks Author does not look like an attractive authoring tool. Imagine if photoshop pulled this crap. Oh you have a giant project with a ton of layers? Sell it in Adobe's store, or save to a format with no layers. Basically you are telling non technical users "start from scratch if you want to sell elsewhere", and technical users might have to jump through hoops as well if they use proprietary tags/css that aren't easily replicated outside of the program. So yeah, this article IS something.
Oops, please disregard, I had no idea what I was talking about! I think if it appears alongside the menu, instead of as a replacement, this would be an awesome idea.
Seems like Synapse, but with the ability to search commands inside programs as well as launch them. Couldn't that get a bit crowded? If I type "Open", I might mean geany one time, gimp another... Still its an interesting idea. I wonder if it will be available as an app, or just integrated into Unity (where it won't really see the same exposure).
Shorter Version: "Just curious, I checked it out on wikipedia and don't believe the scientists". Just poking fun. I doubt anyone predicted the water plume, but that's what makes it fascinating. We've seen what humanity's impact on the climate has done, and it turns out there are a number of natural processes that can kick in at any moment to further speed things up. In other words, we aren't as safe as we think we are. Also, if we imagine the water absorbing the excess CO2, and a process of cooling going on, as more and more CO2 is removed into the water, the temperature at the poles would sink progressively, leading to more ice being formed...etc. It isn't hard to imagine that. A big point to consider: even if we didn't cause the climate change - will it hurt us and is should we be doing something to slow it down or stop it?
+1 AC. There is a reason other file sharing companies are worried about being attacked. Just because the government went after one which appears to have made missteps does not mean they will continue exercising the same restraint. It is baffling anyone would think so when PIPA and SOPA are an express declaration they wish to do away with as much restrain on the matter as they can get away with. But here is a citation anyway of a draconian action with regards to copyright infringement.
Hell no. It would require my students to have apple hardware and software. That places a needless financial and technological limit on my students. I do however see a market vulnerability here. Apple wants to replace the textbook cartel lock-in with their own lock-in. A reasonably priced service/app for authors that allows the flexibility they deny could do very well. Especially since (at the college level at least) students are happy to make waves and protest exploitation. An enterprising organization could seize the upper hand and compete on cost, flexibility, and ethics.
I wonder how many more companies will decide it necessary to block access to the US as ever more draconian actions are taken by our government?