somewhere between $100,000 and $1,000,000 they can push a whole new app with a non-infringing design. So that puts an upper bound on what Apple is likely to agree to.
I dunno. Apple has a lot of cash on hand that they're trying to figure out what to do with it, and if they pay up over 7 figures as a symbolic gesture now, of how serious they take copying design, they might use that as leverage later when they suspect their competitors are copying from them.
You can NOT delete a Facebook account. You can remove wallposts, but they remain on the database. You can deactivate the account but it will persist for several weeks. but you CANNOT delete the account!
Yes, but you can stop using the account when it's part of your legal agreement to do so.
In America (and many other countries), judges get to be petty tyrants with few restrictions or consequences for rulings no matter how nutbar they may be.
Yes, if only in America we had a way to appeal court decisions.
and a judge demanded that you get a castration in order to avoid 10-15 years in prison
Castration would go under 'cruel and unusual punishment'. Any sort of punishment a judge would order would have to not violate the cruel and unusual clause.
Given that for most of Slashdots existence, its purpose has been to bash XP, I'm surprised to see so many comments defending it.
If you have an XP computer that's doing a job well and isn't touching the internet, that's great. No need to change. If you're trying to keep an XP computer running, while also accessing the internet, that's a mistake. XP is a huge target for every bad piece of crap out there.
Also, please stop using XP, so that way software authors will stop targeting it. All software that targets XP isn't as well written as it could be if it weren't.
Ok, but why is it that every single iPhone I see is covered by a huge honkin rubber protective case?
My mother purchased an iPhone 4S a little while after it came out. A few weeks later I flew down to visit her and asked how she liked her new phone. She pulled it out and showed me the case she got for it. She talked about how pretty it was; and then mentioned how all of her friends really like her case as well. I asked my dad about if she really uses her phone and he mentioned how absolutely in love she is with the case. Honestly my mom would have loved a feature phone in an equally stylish case. One success that Apple has going for it, is large enough volume to justify manufacturing a diversity of cases/skins, that will keep people on the iPhone if only for that.
If the phone could survive a drop, why would people buy more of them?
unlike XP where you could see everything you had in one shot.
For the vast majority of people, having three or four columns of Start menu, fold out with a chaotic grouping of small icons next to small folders didn't help them find their programs. They still had to take their mouse and scroll over each and everyone, just to make sure that they didn't miss what they were looking for. Many times it resulted in the mouse wandering too far outside of some invisible boundary, causing flyouts to collapse, and they'd start scanning all over again.
Creationism is a group of hypothesis that are dressed up as science, with the sole intent of being mutually exclusive and in conflict with evolution. So there is a conflict, that's the whole purpose behind creationism. That said, you are correct in that it's possible for a belief system to be crafted such that there can be a divine power/supreme being and evolution, the two aren't mutually exclusive. But creationism isn't a belief system; creationism is an idea that's failing at trying to be science.
I recently surveyed a few of my adult friends. Somewhat surprisingly most did not realize that the stars in the sky are "suns", most attributing their sparkle to reflection from our sun.
What was the exact question you asked them? I'd be curious to try the experiment out on a different sample set.
You can pry my gaming PC from my cold, carpal tunnel stricken dead hands. There are more than enough of us who have no desire to 'abandon' a traditional PC to comprise our own demographic.
So you're happy with your current purchase and you're not going to buy another one? That's kind of why these companies are in trouble now.
I don't think that normal people have been brainwashed, I think that they never needed a general purpose computer in the first place. They kept on having problems with their general purpose computers, and Apple has been able to make most of those problems go away for most people. The market rewards that kind of behavior.
I really don't care what the underlying operating system is, as long as it stays out of my way (and it sounds like the new Win8 UI might be annoying).
Or possibly not. If you're goal is to have less OS then Win 8 should be more preferable over Win 7 because there's no Windows Orb. So it's just your applications on the task bar. No OS.
If an meeting is configured as a Lync Online meeting I know that any sort of audio/video can easily be recorded by using the start and stop recording features in Lync. Those generally do get stored on a users local laptop instead of in a central location though.
The hosts file can only be modified by administrators. Any additional protection is useless because if malware has gotten itself running as administrator, it can just kill or modify windows defender anyway.
True, but that's also assuming that all malware is very thorough and well written. While your statement holds true for a targeted attack I don't think it applies generally. Take my father-in-law for example. He thought of himself as being technically competent, and then I show up and make him look like the town fool by comparison. I can't convince him to not run as administrator. My mother-in-law has mentioned that it's partly an ego thing where if he did listen to my technical advice, it means he's not as hot technically as he wants to be. There's a shot in the dark that he'll check AV settings, but there's no way he'd ever open a hosts file or even grep it's contents if he did see it.
If all you're trying to do is block ad sites, and you're willing to do it on a system wide scale, use a firewall. Set a bunch of outbound rules to block certain address. It works, the settings will survive OS upgrades, and Windows 8 won't undo the settings on your behalf.
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somewhere between $100,000 and $1,000,000 they can push a whole new app with a non-infringing design. So that puts an upper bound on what Apple is likely to agree to.
I dunno. Apple has a lot of cash on hand that they're trying to figure out what to do with it, and if they pay up over 7 figures as a symbolic gesture now, of how serious they take copying design, they might use that as leverage later when they suspect their competitors are copying from them.
You can NOT delete a Facebook account. You can remove wallposts, but they remain on the database. You can deactivate the account but it will persist for several weeks. but you CANNOT delete the account!
Yes, but you can stop using the account when it's part of your legal agreement to do so.
In America (and many other countries), judges get to be petty tyrants with few restrictions or consequences for rulings no matter how nutbar they may be.
Yes, if only in America we had a way to appeal court decisions.
A judge ordering a defendant to delete evidence of a crime... Well, I must say that's a new one for me.
It's possible she wasn't taking the trial seriously, until Facebook got involved.
There was no due process here, at least none I saw. Just a judge going, "Take it down."
Having a judge involved, and the defense attorney not objecting, is due process.
and a judge demanded that you get a castration in order to avoid 10-15 years in prison
Castration would go under 'cruel and unusual punishment'. Any sort of punishment a judge would order would have to not violate the cruel and unusual clause.
Given that for most of Slashdots existence, its purpose has been to bash XP, I'm surprised to see so many comments defending it.
If you have an XP computer that's doing a job well and isn't touching the internet, that's great. No need to change. If you're trying to keep an XP computer running, while also accessing the internet, that's a mistake. XP is a huge target for every bad piece of crap out there.
Also, please stop using XP, so that way software authors will stop targeting it. All software that targets XP isn't as well written as it could be if it weren't.
Ok, but why is it that every single iPhone I see is covered by a huge honkin rubber protective case?
My mother purchased an iPhone 4S a little while after it came out. A few weeks later I flew down to visit her and asked how she liked her new phone. She pulled it out and showed me the case she got for it. She talked about how pretty it was; and then mentioned how all of her friends really like her case as well. I asked my dad about if she really uses her phone and he mentioned how absolutely in love she is with the case. Honestly my mom would have loved a feature phone in an equally stylish case. One success that Apple has going for it, is large enough volume to justify manufacturing a diversity of cases/skins, that will keep people on the iPhone if only for that.
If the phone could survive a drop, why would people buy more of them?
unlike XP where you could see everything you had in one shot.
For the vast majority of people, having three or four columns of Start menu, fold out with a chaotic grouping of small icons next to small folders didn't help them find their programs. They still had to take their mouse and scroll over each and everyone, just to make sure that they didn't miss what they were looking for. Many times it resulted in the mouse wandering too far outside of some invisible boundary, causing flyouts to collapse, and they'd start scanning all over again.
It's probably time to seriously consider moving from 2003 to 2007.
There is no Windows Server 2007.
And if it weren't for trying to break Nazi crypto, the Allies probably wouldn't have invented computers as we know them.
Are you saying that the Nazi's are responsible for Windows?
I'm *SHOCKED*. Shocked, I tell ya!
Well gambling has been going on in the establishment.
Creationism is a group of hypothesis that are dressed up as science, with the sole intent of being mutually exclusive and in conflict with evolution. So there is a conflict, that's the whole purpose behind creationism. That said, you are correct in that it's possible for a belief system to be crafted such that there can be a divine power/supreme being and evolution, the two aren't mutually exclusive. But creationism isn't a belief system; creationism is an idea that's failing at trying to be science.
I recently surveyed a few of my adult friends. Somewhat surprisingly most did not realize that the stars in the sky are "suns", most attributing their sparkle to reflection from our sun.
What was the exact question you asked them? I'd be curious to try the experiment out on a different sample set.
You can pry my gaming PC from my cold, carpal tunnel stricken dead hands. There are more than enough of us who have no desire to 'abandon' a traditional PC to comprise our own demographic.
So you're happy with your current purchase and you're not going to buy another one? That's kind of why these companies are in trouble now.
"Normal" people have been completely brainwashed
I don't think that normal people have been brainwashed, I think that they never needed a general purpose computer in the first place. They kept on having problems with their general purpose computers, and Apple has been able to make most of those problems go away for most people. The market rewards that kind of behavior.
Or is it like the little dialog that pops up when an app crashes asking if it can send details to HQ?
It's like the dialog. It's there to report to report to MS how well the applications that are installed are performing.
Below is the relevant privacy text Microsoft includes when you choose express install.
Hey, don't let facts get in the way of some good hysteria.
I really don't care what the underlying operating system is, as long as it stays out of my way (and it sounds like the new Win8 UI might be annoying).
Or possibly not. If you're goal is to have less OS then Win 8 should be more preferable over Win 7 because there's no Windows Orb. So it's just your applications on the task bar. No OS.
This implies that there are about 1.2 million bots worldwide. Seems low.
Not if all of the spam is coming from the same house.
If an meeting is configured as a Lync Online meeting I know that any sort of audio/video can easily be recorded by using the start and stop recording features in Lync. Those generally do get stored on a users local laptop instead of in a central location though.
The hosts file can only be modified by administrators. Any additional protection is useless because if malware has gotten itself running as administrator, it can just kill or modify windows defender anyway.
True, but that's also assuming that all malware is very thorough and well written. While your statement holds true for a targeted attack I don't think it applies generally. Take my father-in-law for example. He thought of himself as being technically competent, and then I show up and make him look like the town fool by comparison. I can't convince him to not run as administrator. My mother-in-law has mentioned that it's partly an ego thing where if he did listen to my technical advice, it means he's not as hot technically as he wants to be. There's a shot in the dark that he'll check AV settings, but there's no way he'd ever open a hosts file or even grep it's contents if he did see it.
If all you're trying to do is block ad sites, and you're willing to do it on a system wide scale, use a firewall. Set a bunch of outbound rules to block certain address. It works, the settings will survive OS upgrades, and Windows 8 won't undo the settings on your behalf.
Imagine being born with the combined understanding of all of the major fields of science, history, languages, crafts, trades, from day one.
Isn't that what made the goa'uld so evil?
More importantly, how are tablet uses going to press the Windows key when they don't have a keyboard?
All Windows 8 tablets are required to have a physical Windows button.