Sigh. Apple doesn't have a monopoly. It's the wrong word but the right general concept. So while people are arguing semantics, they're totally missing the point.
A Dell PC is trivially replaceable with a PC from a number of other manufacturers. Everything else will be more or less the same.
An Apple PC is not trivially replaceable. Changing to any competitor will require changing go a completely different OS, which behaves in a noticeably different way and requires different software. If you want an Apple computer with a configuration not available from Apple, you don't have a lot of options. You have to pick the closest Apple product. If you want a Windows PC with a configuration not available from Dell, you find a manufacturer that does make a PC with that configuration.
Yes. I know what he meant. Just seems that Apple does better in its little niche than IBM have managed despite once controlling the PC market. Most PC manufacturers would love Apple's market share.
According to the U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act, it doesn't matter.
Yes it does! It bars circumventing copy protection mechanisms. Devices that bypass interoperability restrictions have been considered fair use in past cases.
What I find most amazing about this whole thing is that Jobs keeps repeating the same mistakes that made Apple the #2 computer maker in the world (as opposed to #1).
Apple are number 5 (in terms of units shipped). I don't think there's reason to believe that a more open Apple platform would have worked for Apple. It didn't help IBM that much.
Sony doesn't have a print publishing arm though does it? This has been the cause of many of Sony's problems - too much concern about upsetting or promoting other segments of Sony, apparently in an attempt to get a stranglehold on the entire industry. If they decided to make a product that was simply better than the competition (and this looks nicer than, and supports more formats than the Kindle) then they're likely to do pretty well.
Perhaps. Personally I think it's quite plausible that he just wanted to play homebrew games, but there's at least reason to believe that that piracy was his motivation. And we don't know what he actually did because the article is so short on details. It's quite likely that he was offering a service to modify a large number of consoles, and explicitly stating that this was to allow them to run pirate games.
It just doesn't seem compelling enough to convince me that I'd be busted for installing Android on a PSP.
Intent matters here. "A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games."
This is different from saying "A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles"
Fine. Go to the pick and mix, and throw in a load of sweets they don't sell.
This is like charging the public $100 a pop for bottled water that you are secretly just filling from the tap, and then suing anyone you see drinking any water at all who can't show a receipt that they bought a bottle from you.
Nobody is suing anyone.
How can AP justify demanding renumeration from the public for using their material if they cannot even recognize their own material?
Nobody is demanding anything.
Either the "licence" you get from this website actually shifts liability over the content agreed upon from yourself to AP, or else what purpose does it serve at all? Is this nothing more than a complicated donation box?
They're offering you their permission. AP agree that they have consented to you using content that you believe to be owned by them. Why is it their responsibility to protect you from being an idiot and paying for permission for something you don't need a licence for?
It's an automated system to grant permission to people who need it. It's not up to the system to make this determination. It's up to the person.
Hey, I can buy 100 licences to Windows Vista and then install Linux if I like. I can buy a hunting licence so I can put down mousetraps. I can take a driving test before getting on a segway. I don't need to but it's up to me to realise that.
I've always seen freedom as a relative thing rather than a declaration "this is free/this is not free". GPL is free in that you can modify it and share it but not free in that the licence does impose limitations on this freedom.
Perhaps, but I haven't ridden a motorbike either. I have no idea what the complexities are, yet would still give more respect for a motorcyclist than a segway user.
But I think my answer is the inability to perceive the utility of the thing. A motorcycle has speed. Even a very low powered scooter can do 30mph. The idea that people want to get from place to place considerably more quickly means I can see why you want one.
A 12.5mph Segway just doesn't seem fast enough to justify the cost. It gives the impression that the owner is a lazy rich guy. Maybe it's just envy, but it seems like a hell of a lot of money to spend to go a little bit faster.
Yes, but you can use efficient, low power engines rather than big heavy rockets.
But I agree with you. I don't see where the benefit is in stopping at the L1 point. Even if there's a reliability issue, it makes more economic sense to just send more probes than the considerable cost of sending astronauts up there.
I don't think changing things at this stage would help. People are generally aware that decibels indicates loudness (although they do seem to consider it an absolute linear scale). Talking about "bels" would make them wonder just what you're on about.
Well, the payment is pretty good but I don't think I can manage the economies of scale to produce energy at half the cost of a major power company.
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People do suffer from this affliction. The fact that it's actually a mental problem doesn't actually make it less of an affliction. Mental issues cause real world problems in much the same way as physical ones.
Sort of cool. Sort of depressing. We'd have to assume that the next intelligent race would take about as long to communicate (very very roughly - one sample doesn't give you a good average but indicates the sort of numbers we're talking about). We're going to be waiting for someone to talk to for a very long time.
What will end up happening is a distribution organisation will be set up (or one of the mega-stores will set one up), that will buy in bulk and take on the costs of dealing with small orders themselves.
It's rather a shame for the small businesses who will end up paying for this, but I guess that's how business works.
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Sigh. Apple doesn't have a monopoly. It's the wrong word but the right general concept. So while people are arguing semantics, they're totally missing the point.
A Dell PC is trivially replaceable with a PC from a number of other manufacturers. Everything else will be more or less the same.
An Apple PC is not trivially replaceable. Changing to any competitor will require changing go a completely different OS, which behaves in a noticeably different way and requires different software. If you want an Apple computer with a configuration not available from Apple, you don't have a lot of options. You have to pick the closest Apple product. If you want a Windows PC with a configuration not available from Dell, you find a manufacturer that does make a PC with that configuration.
Yes. I know what he meant. Just seems that Apple does better in its little niche than IBM have managed despite once controlling the PC market. Most PC manufacturers would love Apple's market share.
According to the U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act, it doesn't matter.
Yes it does! It bars circumventing copy protection mechanisms. Devices that bypass interoperability restrictions have been considered fair use in past cases.
What I find most amazing about this whole thing is that Jobs keeps repeating the same mistakes that made Apple the #2 computer maker in the world (as opposed to #1).
Apple are number 5 (in terms of units shipped). I don't think there's reason to believe that a more open Apple platform would have worked for Apple. It didn't help IBM that much.
Sony doesn't have a print publishing arm though does it? This has been the cause of many of Sony's problems - too much concern about upsetting or promoting other segments of Sony, apparently in an attempt to get a stranglehold on the entire industry. If they decided to make a product that was simply better than the competition (and this looks nicer than, and supports more formats than the Kindle) then they're likely to do pretty well.
Perhaps, but it will potentially make more money, and that's what he wants.
Hell, they only need one subscriber to increase subscription revenues.
Perhaps. Personally I think it's quite plausible that he just wanted to play homebrew games, but there's at least reason to believe that that piracy was his motivation. And we don't know what he actually did because the article is so short on details. It's quite likely that he was offering a service to modify a large number of consoles, and explicitly stating that this was to allow them to run pirate games.
It just doesn't seem compelling enough to convince me that I'd be busted for installing Android on a PSP.
Intent matters here. "A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles to enable the machines to play pirated video games."
This is different from saying "A Southern California college student has been arrested on federal charges that he illegally modified video game consoles"
Fine. Go to the pick and mix, and throw in a load of sweets they don't sell.
This is like charging the public $100 a pop for bottled water that you are secretly just filling from the tap, and then suing anyone you see drinking any water at all who can't show a receipt that they bought a bottle from you.
Nobody is suing anyone.
How can AP justify demanding renumeration from the public for using their material if they cannot even recognize their own material?
Nobody is demanding anything.
Either the "licence" you get from this website actually shifts liability over the content agreed upon from yourself to AP, or else what purpose does it serve at all? Is this nothing more than a complicated donation box?
They're offering you their permission. AP agree that they have consented to you using content that you believe to be owned by them. Why is it their responsibility to protect you from being an idiot and paying for permission for something you don't need a licence for?
It's an automated system to grant permission to people who need it. It's not up to the system to make this determination. It's up to the person.
Hey, I can buy 100 licences to Windows Vista and then install Linux if I like. I can buy a hunting licence so I can put down mousetraps. I can take a driving test before getting on a segway. I don't need to but it's up to me to realise that.
I've always seen freedom as a relative thing rather than a declaration "this is free/this is not free". GPL is free in that you can modify it and share it but not free in that the licence does impose limitations on this freedom.
By design, it's "free software". The FSF is very clear on the matter.
Perhaps, but I haven't ridden a motorbike either. I have no idea what the complexities are, yet would still give more respect for a motorcyclist than a segway user.
But I think my answer is the inability to perceive the utility of the thing. A motorcycle has speed. Even a very low powered scooter can do 30mph. The idea that people want to get from place to place considerably more quickly means I can see why you want one.
A 12.5mph Segway just doesn't seem fast enough to justify the cost. It gives the impression that the owner is a lazy rich guy. Maybe it's just envy, but it seems like a hell of a lot of money to spend to go a little bit faster.
Voting on the basis of skin color is quite acceptable by today's moral standard.
Pstt, dude.... Firstly, this is off topic, and secondly, people can vote for whatever reason they damn well like.
Aside from meteorology and aerodynamics, of course.
Yes, but you can use efficient, low power engines rather than big heavy rockets.
But I agree with you. I don't see where the benefit is in stopping at the L1 point. Even if there's a reliability issue, it makes more economic sense to just send more probes than the considerable cost of sending astronauts up there.
with a fixation on Big Brother (Orwell, not the terribe reality show)
Although they don't exactly ignore the TV show.
Deci- is a valid SI prefix.
I don't think changing things at this stage would help. People are generally aware that decibels indicates loudness (although they do seem to consider it an absolute linear scale). Talking about "bels" would make them wonder just what you're on about.
Well, the payment is pretty good but I don't think I can manage the economies of scale to produce energy at half the cost of a major power company.
People do suffer from this affliction. The fact that it's actually a mental problem doesn't actually make it less of an affliction. Mental issues cause real world problems in much the same way as physical ones.
Sort of cool. Sort of depressing. We'd have to assume that the next intelligent race would take about as long to communicate (very very roughly - one sample doesn't give you a good average but indicates the sort of numbers we're talking about). We're going to be waiting for someone to talk to for a very long time.
Uhm, stairs being ramps and stairs being stairs. Hell, I know what I meant. My brain rebelled.
Because stairs are less practical for able bodied people than stairs. Can't say the same about braille ATMs.
The PS3 had a Blu-ray drive because they knew that DVD and the PS2 promoted each other and were hoping the same would happen with Blu-ray.
Stand-alone players are cheap enough now, and there's no HD-DVD to compete, so there's no major benefit to Sony to add a drive to their next console.
What will end up happening is a distribution organisation will be set up (or one of the mega-stores will set one up), that will buy in bulk and take on the costs of dealing with small orders themselves.
It's rather a shame for the small businesses who will end up paying for this, but I guess that's how business works.