If I am remembering correctly, Digital gave our school a $70,000 PDP-11/V03 as a gift (tax deduction for them) in 1975. We had three VT-52 video terminals and one Decwriter II. We were only given access to BASIC but that was enough. While it was a primitive two floppy system no hard disk, it was pretty advanced compared to home computers at the time. In 1979 I was given a TRS-80 model I for Christmas. While it was all mine, it had no disk drives, just a cassette player. In 1980 the school got four Commodore PETs and finally a full lab of 10 or more Black Apples.
I was lucky to go to such a well equipped school. I learned BASIC on my own (with help from friends) and when it came around to class, I helped the teacher with class. He taught the whole class and I helped people with syntax on the exercises. I spent much of my free time on those computers programming and learning.
I have dropped my caseless iphone 4 and 4s at least 5 times each (yes I am clumsy) without breakage. It is not fragile even with glass on both sides. The main way gorilla glass is broken is a drop on to concrete, even asphalt seems not to do it at hand height. Almost half the people I work with have the iPhone 4 or 4s, out of maybe 10 phones I have seen one broken from a drop. I have had Samsung phones that break on the first drop and Erikson that took only a few drops. None of my Moto's ever broke from droppage.
Apple stuff is more environmentally friendly because it is re-used, repaired and re-purposed much more often then android equipment. With the large numbers of each Apple iPhone made there are larger stocks of replacement parts. If a screen breaks on a HTC phone you have to pay more for that part if you can find it at all, on iPhone they are readily available. People do not often throw them out or toss them in a drawer till they are trash... they sell them or give them away and they find another life. I have not tossed a single iPhone nor do I know anyone who has. I know of people with hold phones like the g1 and the Samsung captivate that just are not worth dealing with as used.
Have an old Apple 30 pin adapter? I bet you know a ton of people who could use it. If not only the cable is wasted, the charging block is good for any USB device.
Your statement is wrong. The ND in FRAND is non-discriminatory. It is against FRAND to ask for more from Apple then from others. Samsung has asked for many times more from Apple then from others and is also (even worse) going after exhausted patents.
The point is that the music you buy from iTunes is not encrypted or in a special format (AKA DRM). Apple does not let you use their store to download a song to more then five devices, but that is not the same as DRM. They do not stop YOU from copying the files as many times as you want.
I just do not understand why we go after people who pirate CP. While I think CP is wrong, In the music world when you pirate something that (according to the music industry, not me) causes there to be less incentive to produce it. People who pirate CP are reducing the odds of new CP being created. Keep it illegal to make/produce/distribute CP and of course any sexual acts with a child.
The music IS DRM free on a computer. You can download all of your purchased music to 5 devices with Apple. If one of those 5 machines is a PC/Mac then the files will be on the hard drive in a DRM free format even organized properly. Copy that to another device or two (or thousand). The music is NOT easy (though quite possible) to get off of a device such as an iPod or iPhone but even there it is not encrypted, it is just inconveniently organized.
That is information that is wrong! There is no 'standard' but customary FRAND fees are not 2.5% per patent which is what was being asked. That 2.5% (actually 2.25%) is what Motorola was SEEKING and was denied by courts from Apple. The typical customary FRAND fees are less then 5% for the ENTIRE package of patents (from all patent holders combined) for a device including wifi and 3g/4g patents.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/13/apple_frand_win_over_motorola_slashes_googles_patent_power.html
That is NOT how FRAND works. People who contribute to the pool get paid for their patents on a FRAND basis. People who do not contribute PAY on a FRAND basis. There are not differing rates for people who contribute and for those who do not, but of course if you do not contribute you are paying not getting paid. Obviously some companies will both pay and get paid.
The reason why Apple will not license the FRAND patents is that they are not being offered the same rates as the others who have purchased them. The N in FRAND is for non-discriminitory and that is where the problem is The FRAND patents in this case are being offered to Apple at rates 10-100x higher then normal or with cross licensing on Apples non-FRAND patents. Apple is rightfully insisting on the same terms as others have paid.
Most of the criminals to be deterred are not reading slashdot. If they are a criminal reading slashdot they are too busy using their Arduinos to open hotel doors.
If bitcoin 'popped' it would be like paypal closing and keeping all of the balances to me. I do not use bitcoin as a bank, I use it as a currency. Some days I do have more bitcoin then others, but I am buying and selling physical items and services with it, NOT investing.
You keep saying things like no trust, no trade and silly games. While each day thousands trade with bitcoin without paying paypal any profits. The money stays in the bitcoin economy. There is a further product, worldwide fast value exchange with near zero fees that can not be provided with paypal. Paypal limits the countries, the users and even the products that are traded with it. Another value is the protection from financial/political censorship that banks and papal do not provide. Bitcoin is open source and community based, Paypal is not.
But maybe you just don't get it. See you next year when the bitcoin economy is 2x bigger.
Bitcoins are worth what they trade for and they trade for a lot more then nothing.
For all of 2012 they have been over $5, today they are about $12. If trades were infrequent or isolated you might have a point. Bitcoins trade all over the world at many exchanges, in person, for goods, to the tune of $20 million at one exchange in the past thirty days. Bitcoin is heading towards a billion dollar a year economy.
I wish that were true. In Maryland over 10% of blacks will vote republican over the gay marriage issue. Maybe not more then 20% but it could be enough to make a difference in other states. Black preachers are pushing hard on this one, some of them with money from the Republican party. In Maryland Obama will win but in swing states like Pennsylvania the republicans may win by less then 1%.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/nom-newest-anti-gay-marriage-front-man-william-owens
That is an often repeated myth. If the logo was being directly copied or near identical they would HAVE to file to protect it but often companies file when logos are similar and use this excuse. There are millions of similar logos out there and people are not loosing trademarks over it. I admit these logos are close, but that is NOT enough to force filing.
IANAL
I agree but being bombed might actually help (long term) with economic prosperity. People are forced to rebuild and they usually rebuild better then what was there before. When things work (or just barley work) there is less incentive to replace them then if they do not work at all. Being bombed is much harder then not being bombed, but it forces change.
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If I am remembering correctly, Digital gave our school a $70,000 PDP-11/V03 as a gift (tax deduction for them) in 1975. We had three VT-52 video terminals and one Decwriter II. We were only given access to BASIC but that was enough. While it was a primitive two floppy system no hard disk, it was pretty advanced compared to home computers at the time. In 1979 I was given a TRS-80 model I for Christmas. While it was all mine, it had no disk drives, just a cassette player. In 1980 the school got four Commodore PETs and finally a full lab of 10 or more Black Apples. I was lucky to go to such a well equipped school. I learned BASIC on my own (with help from friends) and when it came around to class, I helped the teacher with class. He taught the whole class and I helped people with syntax on the exercises. I spent much of my free time on those computers programming and learning.
The video below takes 4 drops on concrete before it breaks. There is an element of luck. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-OBoDFeDY
I have dropped my caseless iphone 4 and 4s at least 5 times each (yes I am clumsy) without breakage. It is not fragile even with glass on both sides. The main way gorilla glass is broken is a drop on to concrete, even asphalt seems not to do it at hand height. Almost half the people I work with have the iPhone 4 or 4s, out of maybe 10 phones I have seen one broken from a drop. I have had Samsung phones that break on the first drop and Erikson that took only a few drops. None of my Moto's ever broke from droppage.
Apple stuff is more environmentally friendly because it is re-used, repaired and re-purposed much more often then android equipment. With the large numbers of each Apple iPhone made there are larger stocks of replacement parts. If a screen breaks on a HTC phone you have to pay more for that part if you can find it at all, on iPhone they are readily available. People do not often throw them out or toss them in a drawer till they are trash... they sell them or give them away and they find another life. I have not tossed a single iPhone nor do I know anyone who has. I know of people with hold phones like the g1 and the Samsung captivate that just are not worth dealing with as used. Have an old Apple 30 pin adapter? I bet you know a ton of people who could use it. If not only the cable is wasted, the charging block is good for any USB device.
No one has been killed over that picture: http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-one-murdered-because-of-this-image,29553/
Your statement is wrong. The ND in FRAND is non-discriminatory. It is against FRAND to ask for more from Apple then from others. Samsung has asked for many times more from Apple then from others and is also (even worse) going after exhausted patents.
Funny how one slashdot article follows another sometimes.
The point is that the music you buy from iTunes is not encrypted or in a special format (AKA DRM). Apple does not let you use their store to download a song to more then five devices, but that is not the same as DRM. They do not stop YOU from copying the files as many times as you want.
I just do not understand why we go after people who pirate CP. While I think CP is wrong, In the music world when you pirate something that (according to the music industry, not me) causes there to be less incentive to produce it. People who pirate CP are reducing the odds of new CP being created. Keep it illegal to make/produce/distribute CP and of course any sexual acts with a child.
The music IS DRM free on a computer. You can download all of your purchased music to 5 devices with Apple. If one of those 5 machines is a PC/Mac then the files will be on the hard drive in a DRM free format even organized properly. Copy that to another device or two (or thousand). The music is NOT easy (though quite possible) to get off of a device such as an iPod or iPhone but even there it is not encrypted, it is just inconveniently organized.
Funny, but those guys sure live a long time. Most of them are in their 80's though a few have died younger.
That is information that is wrong! There is no 'standard' but customary FRAND fees are not 2.5% per patent which is what was being asked. That 2.5% (actually 2.25%) is what Motorola was SEEKING and was denied by courts from Apple. The typical customary FRAND fees are less then 5% for the ENTIRE package of patents (from all patent holders combined) for a device including wifi and 3g/4g patents. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/13/apple_frand_win_over_motorola_slashes_googles_patent_power.html
That is NOT how FRAND works. People who contribute to the pool get paid for their patents on a FRAND basis. People who do not contribute PAY on a FRAND basis. There are not differing rates for people who contribute and for those who do not, but of course if you do not contribute you are paying not getting paid. Obviously some companies will both pay and get paid.
The reason why Apple will not license the FRAND patents is that they are not being offered the same rates as the others who have purchased them. The N in FRAND is for non-discriminitory and that is where the problem is The FRAND patents in this case are being offered to Apple at rates 10-100x higher then normal or with cross licensing on Apples non-FRAND patents. Apple is rightfully insisting on the same terms as others have paid.
Most of the criminals to be deterred are not reading slashdot. If they are a criminal reading slashdot they are too busy using their Arduinos to open hotel doors.
If bitcoin 'popped' it would be like paypal closing and keeping all of the balances to me. I do not use bitcoin as a bank, I use it as a currency. Some days I do have more bitcoin then others, but I am buying and selling physical items and services with it, NOT investing.
You keep saying things like no trust, no trade and silly games. While each day thousands trade with bitcoin without paying paypal any profits. The money stays in the bitcoin economy. There is a further product, worldwide fast value exchange with near zero fees that can not be provided with paypal. Paypal limits the countries, the users and even the products that are traded with it. Another value is the protection from financial/political censorship that banks and papal do not provide. Bitcoin is open source and community based, Paypal is not. But maybe you just don't get it. See you next year when the bitcoin economy is 2x bigger.
The silk road has been running for some time on the TOR network. Ok. Buy some candy or shirt or computer gear
Bitcoin is backed by its own economy. Everything sold for bitcoin ads value. And a lot is sold for bitcoin
Bitcoins are worth what they trade for and they trade for a lot more then nothing. For all of 2012 they have been over $5, today they are about $12. If trades were infrequent or isolated you might have a point. Bitcoins trade all over the world at many exchanges, in person, for goods, to the tune of $20 million at one exchange in the past thirty days. Bitcoin is heading towards a billion dollar a year economy.
Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. There may be a few Ponzi scams running INSIDE of the bitcoin economy though. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=94900.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Also Linden could make as much second life currency as they wanted. The same is not true for bitcoin, where the amount grows in a fixed manner.
I wish that were true. In Maryland over 10% of blacks will vote republican over the gay marriage issue. Maybe not more then 20% but it could be enough to make a difference in other states. Black preachers are pushing hard on this one, some of them with money from the Republican party. In Maryland Obama will win but in swing states like Pennsylvania the republicans may win by less then 1%. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/08/nom-newest-anti-gay-marriage-front-man-william-owens
That is an often repeated myth. If the logo was being directly copied or near identical they would HAVE to file to protect it but often companies file when logos are similar and use this excuse. There are millions of similar logos out there and people are not loosing trademarks over it. I admit these logos are close, but that is NOT enough to force filing. IANAL
I agree but being bombed might actually help (long term) with economic prosperity. People are forced to rebuild and they usually rebuild better then what was there before. When things work (or just barley work) there is less incentive to replace them then if they do not work at all. Being bombed is much harder then not being bombed, but it forces change.