True. But if you wanted or needed to integrate with their products, APIs allow you to do so easily. If you wanted to pull information off a site and the site did not have an API, you would have to request the HTML generated for the "human interface" and the parse through it. A simple redesign of the view of the origin website would easily cause the hack to break. At least with an API, the website owner has to be intentional in order to break the API.
All the carriers need to get together and start standardizing the tech. New infrastructure would be a lot cheaper since the parts would be manufactured for all carriers rather an a few. The more of something you manufacture, the cheaper the manufacturing cost, the cheaper the product.
An added benefit would be that consumers would have more choice since they could easily move to another carrier without buying a new phone.
Depending on how your IP agreement is crafted, some employers try to lay claim to anything you do up to two years in the future.
That doesn't make any sense. If that was the case, everything you created for your next employer during the first two years would actually be owned by your previous employer.
So you want to move backwards for energy's sake? How about we work on making our energy production, energy transmission, and devices all more efficient. There is no need to turn back the clock.
I am talking about future purchases. CDs would start coming with the digital deeds. It could simply have a registration code so that you can link it to your name online. Format wouldn't matter. The great thing about the whole thing is that you could go and get the content in another format and only pay a conversion fee instead of the full retail price. If you want to convert the content on your own, you are free to do that too. Of course, I don't see anyone converting their xbox 360 games to PC games and vice-versa.
As far as "Big Brother" goes, these days, what digital products can you purchases or "rent" without some company knowing. What does matter if in this case, an authority is a second company. The authorities don't need to share databases. There just needs to be a validation interface so that a second authority can validate an uploaded digital deed from the original authority is valid and current. If a second authority needs to transfer ownership, they report to the original authority that the original deed is no longer valid and the new authority issues the new deed and becomes the point of contact for future validation.
As I have previously posted on/., I don't see why there can't be a digital deeds to all digital products. There are registered authorities that facilitates the exchange of digital deeds for a small fee. All deeds will be signed with an authority's private key. All registered authorities are required to accept deeds signed by other authorities. If you are using a digital product without a digital deed to your name, you are infringing on the copyright. Obviously, this wouldn't keep people from pirating anyway but at least there would be a way to prove that you bought the product fair and square if ownership ever came into question.
Would you even have to sell it? You could let someone borrow your music just like you can let them borrow your car. I could see some business creating a website that facilitates this kind of exchange. They charge you a flat rate to access their catalog of users that want to borrow and lend music.
I was thought the GPL was supposed to prevent businesses from exploiting the hard work of volunteers trying to make open software. If a business wants to reimplement a whole piece of software from scratch, I see no reason why we should stop them. Nor the reverse. If the community wants to reimplement software so that there is a open version out there, I don't think businesses should be allowed to interfere. Now, if a business wants to take the GPL'ed software, reimplement part of it and then close the whole thing, now there is an issue.
With everyone and their grandparents on Facebook, the kids are going to want to go somewhere where their parents don't have an account. Of course, on Google+, when the parents eventually get a Google+ account, the kids could always put their parents in a separate circle and only share what they want with them.
I don't know about you but the only way I would accept that they own 100% of the infrastructure is if they not only stopped accepting aid from the government but also paid back all previous government aid whether it was in subsidizing, perks, tax breaks, or otherwise. Somehow, I doubt that would ever happen.
I don't think that protects the trademark. Just the source. Personally, while I want the OS to remain open source, I would love if Google made some more rules that the manufacturers would have to follow in order to market their devices as "Android" devices.
That is the first thing I thought. It is like saying of the set of people I personally know, there is at most one degree of separation between any two people.
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True. But if you wanted or needed to integrate with their products, APIs allow you to do so easily. If you wanted to pull information off a site and the site did not have an API, you would have to request the HTML generated for the "human interface" and the parse through it. A simple redesign of the view of the origin website would easily cause the hack to break. At least with an API, the website owner has to be intentional in order to break the API.
Open-API is better than nothing. At least you can plug into the proprietary software using a relatively stable interface.
Listening to music streams.
All the carriers need to get together and start standardizing the tech. New infrastructure would be a lot cheaper since the parts would be manufactured for all carriers rather an a few. The more of something you manufacture, the cheaper the manufacturing cost, the cheaper the product. An added benefit would be that consumers would have more choice since they could easily move to another carrier without buying a new phone.
Including the kids.
Depending on how your IP agreement is crafted, some employers try to lay claim to anything you do up to two years in the future.
That doesn't make any sense. If that was the case, everything you created for your next employer during the first two years would actually be owned by your previous employer.
Some people do that in the real world too.
So you want to move backwards for energy's sake? How about we work on making our energy production, energy transmission, and devices all more efficient. There is no need to turn back the clock.
People borrow cars all the time.
I am talking about future purchases. CDs would start coming with the digital deeds. It could simply have a registration code so that you can link it to your name online. Format wouldn't matter. The great thing about the whole thing is that you could go and get the content in another format and only pay a conversion fee instead of the full retail price. If you want to convert the content on your own, you are free to do that too. Of course, I don't see anyone converting their xbox 360 games to PC games and vice-versa. As far as "Big Brother" goes, these days, what digital products can you purchases or "rent" without some company knowing. What does matter if in this case, an authority is a second company. The authorities don't need to share databases. There just needs to be a validation interface so that a second authority can validate an uploaded digital deed from the original authority is valid and current. If a second authority needs to transfer ownership, they report to the original authority that the original deed is no longer valid and the new authority issues the new deed and becomes the point of contact for future validation.
As I have previously posted on /., I don't see why there can't be a digital deeds to all digital products. There are registered authorities that facilitates the exchange of digital deeds for a small fee. All deeds will be signed with an authority's private key. All registered authorities are required to accept deeds signed by other authorities. If you are using a digital product without a digital deed to your name, you are infringing on the copyright. Obviously, this wouldn't keep people from pirating anyway but at least there would be a way to prove that you bought the product fair and square if ownership ever came into question.
Would you even have to sell it? You could let someone borrow your music just like you can let them borrow your car. I could see some business creating a website that facilitates this kind of exchange. They charge you a flat rate to access their catalog of users that want to borrow and lend music.
And who says that GPL licensed software is written by unpaid volunteers? Most of it isn't.
The people are getting paid by someone. That person/entity is simply volunteering money instead of development effort and time.
I was thought the GPL was supposed to prevent businesses from exploiting the hard work of volunteers trying to make open software. If a business wants to reimplement a whole piece of software from scratch, I see no reason why we should stop them. Nor the reverse. If the community wants to reimplement software so that there is a open version out there, I don't think businesses should be allowed to interfere. Now, if a business wants to take the GPL'ed software, reimplement part of it and then close the whole thing, now there is an issue.
I don't go to Facebook to see someone's whole life. I go to see their current status.
What is Myspace? :)
With everyone and their grandparents on Facebook, the kids are going to want to go somewhere where their parents don't have an account. Of course, on Google+, when the parents eventually get a Google+ account, the kids could always put their parents in a separate circle and only share what they want with them.
I don't know about you but the only way I would accept that they own 100% of the infrastructure is if they not only stopped accepting aid from the government but also paid back all previous government aid whether it was in subsidizing, perks, tax breaks, or otherwise. Somehow, I doubt that would ever happen.
While I disagree, there is a simple solution. Make the password incriminating. Like "I_buri3d_th3_b0dy_1n_th3_r0s3_G4rD3n!".
I don't think that protects the trademark. Just the source. Personally, while I want the OS to remain open source, I would love if Google made some more rules that the manufacturers would have to follow in order to market their devices as "Android" devices.
I drive with one hand even when the second hand is free.
There are other technologies that are cross-platform that they could of built their streaming service on.
Wait, is the degree 0 or 1 between two people that know each other personally?
That is the first thing I thought. It is like saying of the set of people I personally know, there is at most one degree of separation between any two people.
I would prefer not to be tracked by any means. If I am being tracked, I could at least get something out of it.