So, if you have an iPhone and want to use it, for anything, you must have an iTunes store account and a computer that can work it? And the latest vs. of iTunes?
Yes, except for the store account I believe; you can sub with a credit card, I don't think you have to create a store account if you have the card. You do certainly need 7.3 or later of iTunes, which was the first release of iTunes to have an iPhone tab. But I believe there's a 7.3 CD in the box with the phone, and if you have a Mac or a Windoze box with iTunes on it then you'll be getting automatic updates to 7.3 anyway.
Answer, of course - it doesn't apply to ads. Design patents are a completely different and mostly totally useless area of intellectual property law. You want to look at trademark.
Fortunately, Chub Mackerel is mostly correct. You don't actually have to go to court to defend a trademark every time, but it's a good idea. Your lawyer will tell you to, and your lawyer is usually right. But to reiterate - The purpose of trademark law is to avoid consumer confusion. Any form of commercial speech which might confuse the consumer as to whether some commercial entity was involved in some way in the production or distribution or whatever of some product is going to raise trademark issues, as long as the commercial entity in question wasn't actually involved with that product.
Margins. Hardware's a lot more profitable, at least for Apple. Look at Microsoft. They dominate both the world operating system market, and the world business suite market, and they're competitve in a number of other fields. Yes, they're a profitable company. But they're not even as big as, say, IBM, which doesn't dominate anything. Hardware sells for more.
That's the reason behind the XBox. Microsoft has figured this out.
This is wrong. Note that the requirements on that page do not mention at any point requiring a previous operating system install. In fact, Apple doesn't sell operating system upgrade-only discs the way Microsoft does. All their installer discs allow either a fresh install or an upgrade.
did they ever have PC's that were only 93% compatible or something?
Yeah. The early Tandy machines, for example. They ran MS-DOS but their BIOS calls were different. Basically, until Compaq reverse-engineered the IBM BIOS, things were a little sticky a lot of the time for people with clones being able to run stuff like games.
Or... on either Macs or Windows boxes, open iTunes. Drag and drop the QuickTime movie into a playlist. Select it, and click Convert Selection to iPod in the Advanced menu.
Watch iTunes encode h.264. This is how I get my Red vs. Blue into iTunes. It's really not too hard:)
Yes, it can. However, just to be clear - you can't hook the external HD up to it directly; you have to connect the HD to a machine running iTunes.
It'll be interesting to see how long somebody constructs an xPod-type program to interface Linux/*BSD machines to this box; but right now, it's Mac/Windoze only, as well.
Occasionally, very occasionally, cygwin will compile ordinary programs. Usually it doesn't, and you have to hack the source a while to make them work.
Don't get me wrong, I love cygwin, but it's mostly just because it gives me an X server & ssh on my windows machine, so I can run Real Programs on its screen. Which I run from the non-windows boxes. It's just easier to manage that way.
Too prejudicial? Huh. No, it's not. It's what we would call "damning."
Prejudicial evidence is evidence that actually doesn't mean all that much, but tends to sway juries a lot more than it actually should. This is a rare exception; evidence in this category that gets ruled out is usually of the "she was wearing a miniskirt so of course he didn't rape her" variety.
In this case, I suspect the jury impact might actually be less than what it should be. Most jurors are not that technically skilled, and they'll probably be forced to listen to a complicated explanation in court of how the search terms were obtained. Some may doze off. Bah.
Yer Honor and fine boobs of the jury, the defendant searches for information on how to commit murder, and then, not long after, her husband turns up dead. We think she mighta had somethin' to do with it.
Think about it. It's not much of a stretch.
It's not enough to convict on (at least, not by itself), but it's evidence.
If you want a laugh sometime, try informing Mr. Sales Drone that a digital signal is a digital signal. The $150 HDMI cable might be assembled better than the $12 one (debatably), but the signal quality is by definition identical. If it works, it works.
Well, this is almost true. A truly lousy cable might introduce signal errors (1 becomes 0 and so on), but most digital signals will have enough error-checking built into the protocol so that garbled information will be retransmitted. I don't know for sure if HDMI has error-checking (as I know nothing about it), but I'd be terrified of using it if it didn't have at least a parity check.:)
That said, you're generally correct. Theoretically, I suppose, with a crappy enough cable, you could be looking at dropped frames or something, but that seems rather unlikely. And you're correct to point out that it's not like in the analog world, where it's basically a straight line: the better the cable, the better the signal.
The data would already be in a database, and that could be converted pretty easily.
Most of it shouldn't even need to be converted. It should be in MARC Bibliographic format, which is generally fairly easy to transfer between databases.
Where you get into the proprietary stuff is in the location databases: the databases which say that, say, Nicomachean Ethics is available in the Jefferson or Adams Building General or Area Studies Reading Rooms.p>But really, let's be realistic. The major OPAC package is Voyager, which runs on top of Oracle, so runs on anything that runs Oracle. Libraries that don't have Voyager are pretty much all just wishing they could afford it (and the Oracle licenses).
Sure, it has Linux support. It's a bluetooth keyboard, aka a standard device. Linux has bluetooth support (IIRC; my Linux machines all lack bluetooth). Should work with pretty much anything.
OK, that's strange for a Tolkien nut, but I digress.
Read some Zelazny. He's the only other author in modern fantasy who's as influential as Tolkien & Lewis. That is, he does his own thing, and it's different from Tolkien. He has followers (some of whom I really like, especially Brust), but he's an original.
I've been of the understanding that the ASCAP/BMI licensing is handled by the venue -- that is, if you have a gig in a bar, restaurant or theatre, it's they who pay up, and you can sing all all the songs you want, even "Happy Birthday." Can you give me some examples of a public performance where the performer is liable for the ASCAP/BMI licensing, and not the property owner?
License fees are paid by the party who infringed, theoretically. The performer would always be the party infringing the performance right. However, normally the person paying the performer to perform would have a contract with the performer to pay any necessary license fees. So normally the bar owner pays ASCAP, BMI, SOCAN or whoever. But if the bar owner is a cheap bastard (which never happens), then the copyright collective's only target is the performer.
Here in Canada, we actually have four parties currently represented in Parliament. This is down from the five that were there before (two parties merged; nobody got destroyed at the polls).
However, since Confederation, the Prime Minister has been the leader of either the Conservative or Liberal/Whig party. There are other parties, and they do hold seats, but none of them have ever formed the federal government. However, some have won provincial elections.
And hey, it's California. Perhaps this is the first move towards the California Rangers. Now guys, if it turns out that these drones can be remote controlled via a direct brain interface, just remember I called riggers first.:)
M$ owes Trumpet a lot; the reason everybody bought Win 3.1 machines for the Internet was because of Trumpet. Plus, their winsock was better than Microsoft's: easier to use, more flexible.
After it's installed. I nmapped a laptop recently while I was popping XP onto it, and yup, open ports. Happily, I was installing it behind my ultraparanoid firewall, but man: you shouldn't need a proxy connection in order to just have closed ports.
Dependency hell? The only problem I had was that I needed to upgrade the sid machine to a 2.4 kernel. The glibc in sarge, incidentally, still works on 2.2. I've been using Debian on my non-BSD machines for a few years now, and while I have some problems with the distro in general, apt and dpkg are way ahead of everybody else; the only thing that comes close is fink, and well, it's dpkg based too.:)
Repeat previous step until there's nothing left to install.
I should try this sometime on a stable install. I updated a sarge install and a sid install recently that had both been disconnected from the 'net for a couple years (the sarge was originally a Testing machine; while I was DSL-less, sarge was released; meant I had to edit my/etc/apt/sources.list, but the sid machine didn't care), no problems.
Yeah, you can use apt-get too, but I found that dselect was smarter about the package install order.
The key difference, at least between Debian and Windows, is open ports. You toss on a potato or woody install, and there are no open ports. You toss on an XP install, and the stupid thing leaves a bunch of ports open, including freaking NETBIOS.
Closed ports by default gives you a chance to install updates, and not get creamed. That's the difference.
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Yes, except for the store account I believe; you can sub with a credit card, I don't think you have to create a store account if you have the card. You do certainly need 7.3 or later of iTunes, which was the first release of iTunes to have an iPhone tab. But I believe there's a 7.3 CD in the box with the phone, and if you have a Mac or a Windoze box with iTunes on it then you'll be getting automatic updates to 7.3 anyway.
Hmm, sporting events you say? Was Tim Donaghy gambling on Second Life?
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Fortunately, Chub Mackerel is mostly correct. You don't actually have to go to court to defend a trademark every time, but it's a good idea. Your lawyer will tell you to, and your lawyer is usually right. But to reiterate - The purpose of trademark law is to avoid consumer confusion. Any form of commercial speech which might confuse the consumer as to whether some commercial entity was involved in some way in the production or distribution or whatever of some product is going to raise trademark issues, as long as the commercial entity in question wasn't actually involved with that product.
Margins. Hardware's a lot more profitable, at least for Apple. Look at Microsoft. They dominate both the world operating system market, and the world business suite market, and they're competitve in a number of other fields. Yes, they're a profitable company. But they're not even as big as, say, IBM, which doesn't dominate anything. Hardware sells for more.
That's the reason behind the XBox. Microsoft has figured this out.
Watch iTunes encode h.264. This is how I get my Red vs. Blue into iTunes. It's really not too hard :)
It'll be interesting to see how long somebody constructs an xPod-type program to interface Linux/*BSD machines to this box; but right now, it's Mac/Windoze only, as well.
The previous poster is obviously too busy rescuing dead laptops with wi-fi and going wardriving with them to answer your query. :)
Don't get me wrong, I love cygwin, but it's mostly just because it gives me an X server & ssh on my windows machine, so I can run Real Programs on its screen. Which I run from the non-windows boxes. It's just easier to manage that way.
They don't. If you see the police tape on a house, its residents have been booted out. Here's a typical example.
Prejudicial evidence is evidence that actually doesn't mean all that much, but tends to sway juries a lot more than it actually should. This is a rare exception; evidence in this category that gets ruled out is usually of the "she was wearing a miniskirt so of course he didn't rape her" variety.
In this case, I suspect the jury impact might actually be less than what it should be. Most jurors are not that technically skilled, and they'll probably be forced to listen to a complicated explanation in court of how the search terms were obtained. Some may doze off. Bah.
Yer Honor and fine boobs of the jury, the defendant searches for information on how to commit murder, and then, not long after, her husband turns up dead. We think she mighta had somethin' to do with it.
Think about it. It's not much of a stretch.
It's not enough to convict on (at least, not by itself), but it's evidence.
Wow, that was hard. Yeah, I do it every time I put an OS X install on. How I hate OS X's install of sudo.
That said, you're generally correct. Theoretically, I suppose, with a crappy enough cable, you could be looking at dropped frames or something, but that seems rather unlikely. And you're correct to point out that it's not like in the analog world, where it's basically a straight line: the better the cable, the better the signal.
Where you get into the proprietary stuff is in the location databases: the databases which say that, say, Nicomachean Ethics is available in the Jefferson or Adams Building General or Area Studies Reading Rooms.p>But really, let's be realistic. The major OPAC package is Voyager, which runs on top of Oracle, so runs on anything that runs Oracle. Libraries that don't have Voyager are pretty much all just wishing they could afford it (and the Oracle licenses).
Sure, it has Linux support. It's a bluetooth keyboard, aka a standard device. Linux has bluetooth support (IIRC; my Linux machines all lack bluetooth). Should work with pretty much anything.
Read some Zelazny. He's the only other author in modern fantasy who's as influential as Tolkien & Lewis. That is, he does his own thing, and it's different from Tolkien. He has followers (some of whom I really like, especially Brust), but he's an original.
License fees are paid by the party who infringed, theoretically. The performer would always be the party infringing the performance right. However, normally the person paying the performer to perform would have a contract with the performer to pay any necessary license fees. So normally the bar owner pays ASCAP, BMI, SOCAN or whoever. But if the bar owner is a cheap bastard (which never happens), then the copyright collective's only target is the performer.
Here in Canada, we actually have four parties currently represented in Parliament. This is down from the five that were there before (two parties merged; nobody got destroyed at the polls).
However, since Confederation, the Prime Minister has been the leader of either the Conservative or Liberal/Whig party. There are other parties, and they do hold seats, but none of them have ever formed the federal government. However, some have won provincial elections.
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And hey, it's California. Perhaps this is the first move towards the California Rangers. Now guys, if it turns out that these drones can be remote controlled via a direct brain interface, just remember I called riggers first. :)
M$ owes Trumpet a lot; the reason everybody bought Win 3.1 machines for the Internet was because of Trumpet. Plus, their winsock was better than Microsoft's: easier to use, more flexible.
After it's installed. I nmapped a laptop recently while I was popping XP onto it, and yup, open ports. Happily, I was installing it behind my ultraparanoid firewall, but man: you shouldn't need a proxy connection in order to just have closed ports.
Dependency hell? The only problem I had was that I needed to upgrade the sid machine to a 2.4 kernel. The glibc in sarge, incidentally, still works on 2.2. I've been using Debian on my non-BSD machines for a few years now, and while I have some problems with the distro in general, apt and dpkg are way ahead of everybody else; the only thing that comes close is fink, and well, it's dpkg based too. :)
- Install your aged CDs. (Potato? I forget.)
- dselect update
- dselect select
- dselect install
- Repeat previous step until there's nothing left to install.
I should try this sometime on a stable install. I updated a sarge install and a sid install recently that had both been disconnected from the 'net for a couple years (the sarge was originally a Testing machine; while I was DSL-less, sarge was released; meant I had to edit myYeah, you can use apt-get too, but I found that dselect was smarter about the package install order.
The key difference, at least between Debian and Windows, is open ports. You toss on a potato or woody install, and there are no open ports. You toss on an XP install, and the stupid thing leaves a bunch of ports open, including freaking NETBIOS.
Closed ports by default gives you a chance to install updates, and not get creamed. That's the difference.