which do you think is easier to defend in courts? If more men work at home, the women could claim this is gender discrimination (or more women than men). Same for any other situation you can come up with
Seriously, are you still spouting that bullshit? For the configuration Apple chooses to sell, they are very competitive on pricing. Ultrabooks are typically more expensive than MacBook Airs, and the very cheap ones have really shitty cases.
Or are you one of those assholes who like to compare a macbook air to a cheapie $250 netbook?
There are people for whom telecommuting works. I have one great one, working thousands of miles away. There are people for whom telecommuting does not work. I had one who was in another office, away from the rest of the team.
My team can work from home any time they want to. But the office is the primary work location.
well, Firefly wasn't that bad:) They were just heavily accented, but still acceptable. An example would be a frenchman speaking english - accented, but still understandable.
The author/owner of a piece of work gets to decide who gets to derive benefit from it,
Not if they release it under copyright, they don't. See, for example, compulsory licensing in music, and fair use across the board.
Like I said, if they want control, then they should make everyone sign licenses. Abusing copyright to be far more restrictive than copyright was intended for is freeloading.
Why should software get a free pass on this one and be able to enforce arbitrary restrictions under copyright?
You seem to be under the impression that there is only one copyright "right" that can be granted? As Windows/GPL/BSD and others have shown, there are plenty of rights that can be granted and restricted. Any right not granted is restricted. Apple sells it to you under the rights they grant you. If you disagree with it, you can ask for your money back. Even Microsoft has returned $$ for licenses that the purchaser did not agree with. This is established case law.
he's a blogger, the other's as high court judge. If you are so pissed off with a blogger being hired by oracle, shouldn't you be even more pissed off at a high court judge who just 4 months ago finished a case for Samsung, and is now hired by samsung? don't bother with the fake argument of he doesn't really work for samsung. Samsung's footing the bill, and the judge is not working for free.
The author/owner of a piece of work gets to decide who gets to derive benefit from it, which is why I never advocated pirating Windows way back (when Microsoft was actively being evil, as opposed to being senile and evil now).
And I fully support both GPL and BSD licenses and the spirit in which they were written.
So why shouldn't I support Apple's OSX license and the spirit it was written/sold? And that makes me a corporate apologist?
And if you feel that the GPL has no restrictions, you should go read it again. Though, I suppose you can argue that the act of passing it on turns you into something that an end-user. But, do keep in mind - you too did not sign any real pieces of paper when you received GPLed software, nor when you passed it on.
And you feel that someone who wrote an Operating System for their hardware should let you use it where ever you like on any hardware you like?
There are many Operating System choices. If you want to use random hardware you buy, you use the ones written and sold/given to you for that hardware. If you want to use a specific Operating System, and the author of that Operating System has specific requirements, you follow those requirements, or don't use it. For example, if you use Linux, you follow the GPL if you give it away as well. If you use Windows, you pay for the licenses and if you use Mac OS X, one of the requirements is you run it on their hardware.
Memphis Light Gas and Water have been laying cables with fiber optic cores since the 1970s. If only the law allows them to offer Internet service - fiber to the houses, at prices unseen before in the United States.
They could have it as good as the Google Fiber Hood. But... too much entrenched interests.
AC gave the perfect answer, but seriously, give it a bit of thought. I had originally mentioned that the ssh server was locked down and only accepted certs/keys, and you come back and ask why a cert was useful to login to the redhat box?
As for the link, it was just a one liner mention in one post (never seen him post before) that was really about another bug. It was a throwaway line that pointed to a URL, and for some reason, I was curious that day, and followed that URL, and read it, and went *WOW*
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No!!! What did I tell you about trying to use common sense on the Internet again?!?!
Yeah, all the idiots trying to justify their side. Sometimes, there are other factors involved, and they don't even want to look at it. Bleh.
So you're saying Eric Holder and other prosecutors are used car salesmen?
No wonder we're fucked.
which do you think is easier to defend in courts? If more men work at home, the women could claim this is gender discrimination (or more women than men). Same for any other situation you can come up with
And that differs from my claim
For the configuration Apple chooses to sell, they are very competitive on pricing.
how? What does "very competitive" mean in your world?
Seriously, are you still spouting that bullshit? For the configuration Apple chooses to sell, they are very competitive on pricing. Ultrabooks are typically more expensive than MacBook Airs, and the very cheap ones have really shitty cases.
Or are you one of those assholes who like to compare a macbook air to a cheapie $250 netbook?
Mucking Foron.
Funny how all the issues you had was with Microsoft, but yet you cannot trust Apple.
Even more interesting is that the kernel for OSX is FreeBSD - you know, UNIX.
They've all been sent to Africa, where they got fat and lazy and are now hiding under their new name - rhinoceros.
Is it that difficult to understand that some people require structure and oversight?
And some are independent and capable of working alone?
And figuring out which is which is not as easy because you also want to be fair, etc etc?
You live in a black or white world? No shades?
There are people for whom telecommuting works. I have one great one, working thousands of miles away.
There are people for whom telecommuting does not work. I had one who was in another office, away from the rest of the team.
My team can work from home any time they want to. But the office is the primary work location.
well, Firefly wasn't that bad :) They were just heavily accented, but still acceptable. An example would be a frenchman speaking english - accented, but still understandable.
jesus, even the chinese won't understand you...
Do you also claim to be able to change the terms of the GPL when you give the software to someone else?
Apparently, lots of people believe it does, in a lab... Does that count?
It'll be one of those retro-active existence I guess...
I'm sick and tired of arguing with idiots about that. This is not really that difficult a concept...
The author/owner of a piece of work gets to decide who gets to derive benefit from it,
Not if they release it under copyright, they don't. See, for example, compulsory licensing in music, and fair use across the board.
Like I said, if they want control, then they should make everyone sign licenses. Abusing copyright to be far more restrictive than copyright was intended for is freeloading.
Why should software get a free pass on this one and be able to enforce arbitrary restrictions under copyright?
You seem to be under the impression that there is only one copyright "right" that can be granted? As Windows/GPL/BSD and others have shown, there are plenty of rights that can be granted and restricted. Any right not granted is restricted. Apple sells it to you under the rights they grant you. If you disagree with it, you can ask for your money back. Even Microsoft has returned $$ for licenses that the purchaser did not agree with. This is established case law.
he's a blogger, the other's as high court judge. If you are so pissed off with a blogger being hired by oracle, shouldn't you be even more pissed off at a high court judge who just 4 months ago finished a case for Samsung, and is now hired by samsung? don't bother with the fake argument of he doesn't really work for samsung. Samsung's footing the bill, and the judge is not working for free.
The author/owner of a piece of work gets to decide who gets to derive benefit from it, which is why I never advocated pirating Windows way back (when Microsoft was actively being evil, as opposed to being senile and evil now).
And I fully support both GPL and BSD licenses and the spirit in which they were written.
So why shouldn't I support Apple's OSX license and the spirit it was written/sold? And that makes me a corporate apologist?
And if you feel that the GPL has no restrictions, you should go read it again. Though, I suppose you can argue that the act of passing it on turns you into something that an end-user. But, do keep in mind - you too did not sign any real pieces of paper when you received GPLed software, nor when you passed it on.
And you feel that someone who wrote an Operating System for their hardware should let you use it where ever you like on any hardware you like?
There are many Operating System choices. If you want to use random hardware you buy, you use the ones written and sold/given to you for that hardware. If you want to use a specific Operating System, and the author of that Operating System has specific requirements, you follow those requirements, or don't use it. For example, if you use Linux, you follow the GPL if you give it away as well. If you use Windows, you pay for the licenses and if you use Mac OS X, one of the requirements is you run it on their hardware.
Doesn't seem like a difficult concept.
raid just means you have TWO (or more) bricked SSDs..
Only because they are prohibited to do so by law. The people who built it want to use it. But they can only use it for the internal stuff
why? lack of balls :\
Memphis Light Gas and Water have been laying cables with fiber optic cores since the 1970s. If only the law allows them to offer Internet service - fiber to the houses, at prices unseen before in the United States.
They could have it as good as the Google Fiber Hood. But... too much entrenched interests.
Most people can't read. Sounds like he just slapped a keypad on an OPAL drive.
Gnome was started in 1997, so, right by there. It was many many years ago, in my first job, so pre-y2k.
AC gave the perfect answer, but seriously, give it a bit of thought. I had originally mentioned that the ssh server was locked down and only accepted certs/keys, and you come back and ask why a cert was useful to login to the redhat box?
As for the link, it was just a one liner mention in one post (never seen him post before) that was really about another bug. It was a throwaway line that pointed to a URL, and for some reason, I was curious that day, and followed that URL, and read it, and went *WOW*