I know I've seen plenty of footage of big prop planes capturing spy satellites before they knew how to beam images back to Earth. Why spring for helicopters? (FYI, helicopters are generally more expensive than fixed-wing aircraft)
Actually, the Apple key is incredibly useful when working in a terminal. You can't use control shortcuts in a terminal window cause they're alerady serving other functions. You certainly can use Apple-C and Apple-V in a terminal window, though.
Fuel cells produce electricity, while a biodiesel powered engine produces mechanical energy. There are plenty of applications in which mechanical energy is not needed, and the loss of energy in converting mechanical to electrical is undesirable.
Just think about how few women are construction workers, deep sea fisher(wo)men, or offshore oil rig roughnecks. And then think about how few men are working in beauty salons. Something must be done to correct this injustice!
Seriously, some things are feminine, while other things are masculine. Men and women are different, no matter how un-PC that may be. Anyone remember the kid with the botched circumcision and the failed attempt to raise him/her as a girl?
Trademarks are intended to prevent consumer confusion, correct?
This ownder of this site doesn't purport himself to be Jerry Falwell, he's just critical of Falwell. You can see for yourself. If anyone gets confused on that site and thinks that Jerry Falwell has repented his anti-gay ways then they deserve to be confused, for they are stupid.
"Digital divide" describes a situation in which one class has access to computers, and another does not. Really, its not that bad.
I'm not slamming the efforts of the guys in the story, but I am angry that I've seen the President talk more about the digital divide than say, the situation in the Sudan. There's another divide there - those who are victims of genocide, and those whore are not.
There are too many people who have an infatuation with computers and want them to be ubiquitous. This kind of thing is an example, as is computerized voting.
Apple has just as much as a monopoly on FairPlay as Nike has on Air Jordans. That is, they have a monopoly on a product, not a monopoly on the music player/music store market. By revenue, Apple has a 55 percent market share for mp3 players. By units, only 31 percent. I don't know how much of a market share iTunes has, but FairPlay songs are only able to be played on 31 percent of mp3 players. Good luck crying monopoly in court on a company whose market share isn't even close to a majority.
They do have competitors, and those competitors are obliged to compete. If they can't, tough.
Why do we keep subsidizing broken businesses? The NFL isn't like the airlines or Amtrak, our country could still function normally if some of the less profitable teams folded.
Yes, because the DVD player obviously INDUCEd this man to commit vehicular manslaughter (its NOT murder, dammit).
Like someone said earlier, we don't need laws about specific devices because negligent driving is already illegal. I should be able to have my laptop open in the front seat to play mp3s and act as a navigation system if I want to. If I start browsing Slashdot on the highway, then I'm being negligent, which is already illegal!
The whole patent article talks like they intended this to update media, not software. Like those apps that used to go out and grab crap off of your favorite sites so that you can browse them offline.
Teleshuttle also admits prior art in their patent app:
Xcellenet Inc. in product brochures copyrighted 1992 and a price list dated Aug. 16, 1993, for a "REMOTEWARE".RTM. product line, offers a range of REMOTEWARE.RTM. software-only products providing electronic information distribution to and from remote nodes of a proprietary REMOTEWARE.RTM. computer network intended for use within an organized, corporate or institutional data processing or management information system. The system is primarily server directed, rather than user initiated and requires an expensive program (priced at $220.00) to run at the user's node whereas the present invention addresses consumer uses which will support costs of no more than a few dollars per node.
They further go on to to say that RemoteWare requires expensive client side software, and this is why their product is innovative. Because they won't charge as much money for it.
They also say that RemoteWare only communicates with RemoteWare systems. So does Windows Update and Software Updater... You can't very well use Windows Update on a Linux box. Not usefully, anyway.
...that they don't own the patent on run-on sentences. From the patent:
A method for distributing information to a plurality of uncoordinated user stations each of which is configured for communications with a multiplicity of independently-operated servers via a non-proprietary network includes steps for providing a distribution service that distributes updates for a plurality of different products, and providing a transporter software component to each of the plurality of uncoordinated user stations, wherein the transporter software component at each user station automatically effects communication sessions with the distribution service via the non-proprietary network for the purpose of obtaining updates for each of at least a subset of the plurality of different products that are installed on that user station. Moreover, a user station, which includes a storage medium, a plurality of different products installed on the storage medium, and transporter software installed on the storage medium for automatically effectuating communication sessions with a distribution service via a non-proprietary network in order to obtain updates for each of the plurality of different products, and a distribution service that distributes updates for a plurality of different products to a plurality of uncoordinated user stations via a non-proprietary network, are also described.
Apple's Rendezvous and Tibco's Rendezvous aren't competing products. IANAL, but I thought that trademark law only applied to the names of competing products and the names of competing businesses. This is just another case of a wacky judge thinking that all things computer are the same. Tibco doesn't even ship a version of Rendezvous for the Mac. Apple isn't pushing their Rendezvous on *nix and Windows users. There's no confusion of the consumer here.
I think Apple (along with Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Jabber, and others) ought to slap them right back with a lawsuit for defaming iChat (and other clients). So says the website, "TIBCO Rendezvous is the only messaging software that delivers true real-time publish/subscribe and request/reply messaging." Yeah, maybe that was true in 1994. Maybe.
Lots of mail servers bounce mail that comes from a dynamic IP. I guess you could buy a static IP for $10 more a month or whatever it is most places charge, or you could just buy SMTP service from dyndns.org for $12 a year. (Not an employee, just a satisfied customer) I was running Postfix on my iBook for a short time and found it most awesome to have such control until people started telling me that they weren't getting my messages.
Distractions? This ain't no high school. If the introduction of a free toy reveals that the entire student body is afflicted with ADD, I think it's time to switch schools. Either that or time for the school to enter into a simliar agreement with the makers of Ritalin.
Slashdot Mirror
I've already seen this law. Anyone can see this law:
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I know I've seen plenty of footage of big prop planes capturing spy satellites before they knew how to beam images back to Earth. Why spring for helicopters? (FYI, helicopters are generally more expensive than fixed-wing aircraft)
Isn't that a little heavy for a mobile computer?
How can you read The Giver, and then ban it? That's like banning 1984.
Actually, the Apple key is incredibly useful when working in a terminal. You can't use control shortcuts in a terminal window cause they're alerady serving other functions. You certainly can use Apple-C and Apple-V in a terminal window, though.
This is obviously going to be blamed on Tux.
That would've been a problem with the old system, as well as any other system, computerized or not.
Oh god, the racism...
Microsoft to Asia: "Brown people are easily confused."
Fuel cells produce electricity, while a biodiesel powered engine produces mechanical energy. There are plenty of applications in which mechanical energy is not needed, and the loss of energy in converting mechanical to electrical is undesirable.
...how long until primetime television is interrupted so that we may be informed that 'all your base are belong to us'?
Google + Playboy = Booble!
Just think about how few women are construction workers, deep sea fisher(wo)men, or offshore oil rig roughnecks. And then think about how few men are working in beauty salons. Something must be done to correct this injustice!
Seriously, some things are feminine, while other things are masculine. Men and women are different, no matter how un-PC that may be. Anyone remember the kid with the botched circumcision and the failed attempt to raise him/her as a girl?
I'm Italian, you insensitive clod!
Trademarks are intended to prevent consumer confusion, correct?
This ownder of this site doesn't purport himself to be Jerry Falwell, he's just critical of Falwell. You can see for yourself. If anyone gets confused on that site and thinks that Jerry Falwell has repented his anti-gay ways then they deserve to be confused, for they are stupid.
"Digital divide" describes a situation in which one class has access to computers, and another does not. Really, its not that bad.
I'm not slamming the efforts of the guys in the story, but I am angry that I've seen the President talk more about the digital divide than say, the situation in the Sudan. There's another divide there - those who are victims of genocide, and those whore are not.
There are too many people who have an infatuation with computers and want them to be ubiquitous. This kind of thing is an example, as is computerized voting.
Apple has just as much as a monopoly on FairPlay as Nike has on Air Jordans. That is, they have a monopoly on a product, not a monopoly on the music player/music store market. By revenue, Apple has a 55 percent market share for mp3 players. By units, only 31 percent. I don't know how much of a market share iTunes has, but FairPlay songs are only able to be played on 31 percent of mp3 players. Good luck crying monopoly in court on a company whose market share isn't even close to a majority.
They do have competitors, and those competitors are obliged to compete. If they can't, tough.
Why do we keep subsidizing broken businesses? The NFL isn't like the airlines or Amtrak, our country could still function normally if some of the less profitable teams folded.
How did the cat get so fat?!?!
Isn't that going to kill some birds / cause some cancer?
Has anyone calculated the maximum possible safe bandwidth available through radio?
Yes, because the DVD player obviously INDUCEd this man to commit vehicular manslaughter (its NOT murder, dammit).
Like someone said earlier, we don't need laws about specific devices because negligent driving is already illegal. I should be able to have my laptop open in the front seat to play mp3s and act as a navigation system if I want to. If I start browsing Slashdot on the highway, then I'm being negligent, which is already illegal!
Teleshuttle also admits prior art in their patent app:
They further go on to to say that RemoteWare requires expensive client side software, and this is why their product is innovative. Because they won't charge as much money for it.
They also say that RemoteWare only communicates with RemoteWare systems. So does Windows Update and Software Updater... You can't very well use Windows Update on a Linux box. Not usefully, anyway.
Yup, that's two sentences.
Apple's Rendezvous and Tibco's Rendezvous aren't competing products. IANAL, but I thought that trademark law only applied to the names of competing products and the names of competing businesses. This is just another case of a wacky judge thinking that all things computer are the same. Tibco doesn't even ship a version of Rendezvous for the Mac. Apple isn't pushing their Rendezvous on *nix and Windows users. There's no confusion of the consumer here.
You can check Rendezvous out here.
I think Apple (along with Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Jabber, and others) ought to slap them right back with a lawsuit for defaming iChat (and other clients). So says the website, "TIBCO Rendezvous is the only messaging software that delivers true real-time publish/subscribe and request/reply messaging." Yeah, maybe that was true in 1994. Maybe.
The one con that invalidates all those pros:
Lots of mail servers bounce mail that comes from a dynamic IP. I guess you could buy a static IP for $10 more a month or whatever it is most places charge, or you could just buy SMTP service from dyndns.org for $12 a year. (Not an employee, just a satisfied customer) I was running Postfix on my iBook for a short time and found it most awesome to have such control until people started telling me that they weren't getting my messages.
Distractions? This ain't no high school. If the introduction of a free toy reveals that the entire student body is afflicted with ADD, I think it's time to switch schools. Either that or time for the school to enter into a simliar agreement with the makers of Ritalin.
Apple to Napster:
"Haha, fuck you."