Because.doc is a mess, and is so tied not only to a specific type of application (word processing) but to the internals of a specific piece of software (Word, in this case) that using it as a universal format would be a nightmare.
The DNG specification may be patented. Adobe grant a license to those wishing to implement DNG-compliant code, though the license (in particular, the revocation clause) may be GPL-incompatible. (Disclaimer: IANAL)
When a crime is easy to commit and difficult to prosecute, the penalties must be made exponentially more severe for deterrence to work. Copyright infringement falls into this category.
As such, it is surprising that copyright infringement doesn't carry the death penalty (yet).
There is a lot of pressure to "update" the IPv6 specification to establish a stratified internet of servers (which could be licensed and regulated) and clients (which would have low upstream bandwidth and be unable to act as servers), in the interest of protecting the content industry's business models.
As such, as Farsight is said to have been based on disassembly, anything that touches it will become tainted and contaminated with infringement. The best the OSS videoconferencing community can do is lock it in a clean room and keep anyone who has seen the disassembly or any code derived from it away from any codebase they want to legally distribute.
How long does it usually take for brand new Macs to have the new OS as a first-class installable CD, without the inconvenience of having to install the previous OS and upgrade it? Once 10.4 appears in shops, are all new Macs guaranteed to come with first-class standalone 10.4 CD/DVDs, or does it depend on clearing out the backlog of machines with 10.3 and 10.4 upgrade discs?
If they're capturing all of each timezone at 10-11AM of each day, gSat must either be shaped like a curved tube stretching from pole to pole, or orbiting the earth from pole to pole once every hour.
It won't help Australia, though, which is bound by treaty to keep its IP laws harmonised with Head Office (i.e., the U.S.).
As soon as the U.S. passes legislation outlawing peer-to-peer internet connections (i.e., mandating a server-licensing regime of some sort) or criminalising the possession of copyrighted content without legitimate DRM, Australia will be bound to pass the same law. And given that the conservatives won by a landslide in the last election, there is little chance of the politicians worrying about the people having a problem with that.
Maritime piracy is a capital crime in many places, regardless of whether life is lost. Before Britain signed the EU Human Rights treaty (unconditionally abolishing capital punishment), arson in a naval dockyard was one of a handful of capital crimes there too.
If it is trivially easy for people to do something which, if done by enough people, will cause severe economic damage (at least to established industries), the penalties will be raised until they provide a sufficiently strong deterrent. The US will have a capital copyright theft crime sooner or later, and the copyright industry will be understandably keen to use extradition to the maximum extent possible.
In a decade's time, this will be an important part in enabling a global death penalty for intellectual-property theft.
(And it will happen. The most valuable property in the West is intellectual property, which is easy to steal and difficult to defend. If a crime is economically serious and hard to prosecute, the penalties must be made very severe to act as a deterrent (the proportion is exponential to difficulty of prosecution).)
What's the point of running Linux on a Mac? Good quality commodity hardware can make a Linux box at least as good and more cost-effective; and on Mac hardware, MacOS X has advantages over Linux (it's more stable for one, and will run MacOS software). Buying a Mac and getting rid of the OS seems like buying an expensive sports car and replacing the engine with one from a family sedan.
This is coming from someone who owns and uses a Mac laptop (running OSX) and a Linux-based desktop PC.
No; quite the opposite. I think that the fine was quite right, because this story is a simple case of false advertising, and that the "restaurant fined for not updating their web pages" spin put on it by various news articles smells of having an agenda behind it.
Some of the stories about frivolous lawsuits that have been circulated allegedly have been planted or spun by corporate lobby groups with their own agenda (namely the rolling back of product-liability laws); hence my analogy. Both cases sound like soecial interest groups trying to marshal public opinion in favour of rolling back legislation that protects consumers from unfair business practices.
This reminds me of the stories about ridiculous lawsuits (i.e., people suing toaster manufacturers for millions, and winning, because their toaster didn't have a sticker warning them not to use it in the bath), many of which are said to be planted by lobby groups pushing for product-liability laws to be pulled back, making it harder for consumers to sue.
Similarly, I wonder whether the distortion in this story (turning false advertising into outrageous government interference in personal web publishing) has an agenda behind it. Perhaps someone wants to weaken New Zealand's truth-in-advertising laws?
From what I've read, it boots on a H1x0 and runs, though doesn't play anything because they haven't yet coded the software codec infrastructure. (The Archos hardware Rockbox was originally written for uses a hardware MP3 decoder.)
I haven't had a chance to play with it, though, as I have a H340, which they haven't yet started porting the port to.
Where do you draw the line? Shouldn't you also avoid tables for the benefit of those still using NCSA Mosaic? What about the small but significant CERN Linemode demographic? Do you want to cut them off?
At some stage, you have to say that it's time to move on. Now that modern, standards-compliant browsers like Firefox exist and are freely available, it's more than about time to knock Netscape 4.7 on the head and tell those still using it to upgrade or be left behind.
If it uses Flash, it's not true AJAX; the point of AJAX is that it runs on a bare (recent) browser, using only JavaScript, DHTML and XMLRPC, without relying on any bloated proprietary frameworks or plugins.
Btw, as far as nifty AJAX apps go, look at BitFontMaker; it's an old-sk00l bitmap font editor in Javascript/DHTML, which, at the touch of a button, sends its data back to the server, which sends it back in a TrueType font file.
Australian amateur-erotica sites such as ishotmyself.com use 18 as the minimum age, presumably because they are accessible from the US, and could be prosecuted if pictures of 17-year-olds were downloaded from the US. Sites from Britain (another jurisdiction where the age of consent is 16) do similarly.
Because of the US's prominence and economic clout, 18 has become the de facto international age of consent for nude photography, despite there being no international photo-erotica treaty or anything. No site operator wants to block out American customers (of whom there are a lot), or to have to avoid flights stopping in US-controlled territories to avoid being arrested and bundled off to a US federal prison like a common paedophile.
With that in mind, aren't we glad Saudi Arabia isn't a major force on the internet and popular international destination.
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Because .doc is a mess, and is so tied not only to a specific type of application (word processing) but to the internals of a specific piece of software (Word, in this case) that using it as a universal format would be a nightmare.
The DNG specification may be patented. Adobe grant a license to those wishing to implement DNG-compliant code, though the license (in particular, the revocation clause) may be GPL-incompatible. (Disclaimer: IANAL)
IBM contributed JFS to Linux a while ago, and it has been in the kernel since 2.4.x at least.
When a crime is easy to commit and difficult to prosecute, the penalties must be made exponentially more severe for deterrence to work. Copyright infringement falls into this category.
As such, it is surprising that copyright infringement doesn't carry the death penalty (yet).
There is a lot of pressure to "update" the IPv6 specification to establish a stratified internet of servers (which could be licensed and regulated) and clients (which would have low upstream bandwidth and be unable to act as servers), in the interest of protecting the content industry's business models.
As such, as Farsight is said to have been based on disassembly, anything that touches it will become tainted and contaminated with infringement. The best the OSS videoconferencing community can do is lock it in a clean room and keep anyone who has seen the disassembly or any code derived from it away from any codebase they want to legally distribute.
Shrews? As in small rodents?
Actually, wasn't there a fairly major rewrite between System 6 and System 7?
How long does it usually take for brand new Macs to have the new OS as a first-class installable CD, without the inconvenience of having to install the previous OS and upgrade it? Once 10.4 appears in shops, are all new Macs guaranteed to come with first-class standalone 10.4 CD/DVDs, or does it depend on clearing out the backlog of machines with 10.3 and 10.4 upgrade discs?
Only in Japan, where, by convention, ages are counted from 1; i.e., a new-born baby is considered to be of age 1.
If they're capturing all of each timezone at 10-11AM of each day, gSat must either be shaped like a curved tube stretching from pole to pole, or orbiting the earth from pole to pole once every hour.
Or to find loopholes that satisfy the "saintliness" criteria as cheaply as possible.
In most parts of the world, Origin of Species hasn't been controversial for well over a century.
It won't help Australia, though, which is bound by treaty to keep its IP laws harmonised with Head Office (i.e., the U.S.).
As soon as the U.S. passes legislation outlawing peer-to-peer internet connections (i.e., mandating a server-licensing regime of some sort) or criminalising the possession of copyrighted content without legitimate DRM, Australia will be bound to pass the same law. And given that the conservatives won by a landslide in the last election, there is little chance of the politicians worrying about the people having a problem with that.
Maritime piracy is a capital crime in many places, regardless of whether life is lost. Before Britain signed the EU Human Rights treaty (unconditionally abolishing capital punishment), arson in a naval dockyard was one of a handful of capital crimes there too.
If it is trivially easy for people to do something which, if done by enough people, will cause severe economic damage (at least to established industries), the penalties will be raised until they provide a sufficiently strong deterrent. The US will have a capital copyright theft crime sooner or later, and the copyright industry will be understandably keen to use extradition to the maximum extent possible.
In a decade's time, this will be an important part in enabling a global death penalty for intellectual-property theft.
(And it will happen. The most valuable property in the West is intellectual property, which is easy to steal and difficult to defend. If a crime is economically serious and hard to prosecute, the penalties must be made very severe to act as a deterrent (the proportion is exponential to difficulty of prosecution).)
I agree with the rationale for buying a PowerBook. But if you do so, why throw out OSX and load Linux onto it?
What's the point of running Linux on a Mac? Good quality commodity hardware can make a Linux box at least as good and more cost-effective; and on Mac hardware, MacOS X has advantages over Linux (it's more stable for one, and will run MacOS software). Buying a Mac and getting rid of the OS seems like buying an expensive sports car and replacing the engine with one from a family sedan.
This is coming from someone who owns and uses a Mac laptop (running OSX) and a Linux-based desktop PC.
No; quite the opposite. I think that the fine was quite right, because this story is a simple case of false advertising, and that the "restaurant fined for not updating their web pages" spin put on it by various news articles smells of having an agenda behind it.
Some of the stories about frivolous lawsuits that have been circulated allegedly have been planted or spun by corporate lobby groups with their own agenda (namely the rolling back of product-liability laws); hence my analogy. Both cases sound like soecial interest groups trying to marshal public opinion in favour of rolling back legislation that protects consumers from unfair business practices.
This reminds me of the stories about ridiculous lawsuits (i.e., people suing toaster manufacturers for millions, and winning, because their toaster didn't have a sticker warning them not to use it in the bath), many of which are said to be planted by lobby groups pushing for product-liability laws to be pulled back, making it harder for consumers to sue.
Similarly, I wonder whether the distortion in this story (turning false advertising into outrageous government interference in personal web publishing) has an agenda behind it. Perhaps someone wants to weaken New Zealand's truth-in-advertising laws?
From what I've read, it boots on a H1x0 and runs, though doesn't play anything because they haven't yet coded the software codec infrastructure. (The Archos hardware Rockbox was originally written for uses a hardware MP3 decoder.)
I haven't had a chance to play with it, though, as I have a H340, which they haven't yet started porting the port to.
The same people who buy region-locked name-brand DVD players costing three times the price of the Chinese multiregion ones with obscure brand names.
Where do you draw the line? Shouldn't you also avoid tables for the benefit of those still using NCSA Mosaic? What about the small but significant CERN Linemode demographic? Do you want to cut them off?
At some stage, you have to say that it's time to move on. Now that modern, standards-compliant browsers like Firefox exist and are freely available, it's more than about time to knock Netscape 4.7 on the head and tell those still using it to upgrade or be left behind.
If it uses Flash, it's not true AJAX; the point of AJAX is that it runs on a bare (recent) browser, using only JavaScript, DHTML and XMLRPC, without relying on any bloated proprietary frameworks or plugins.
Btw, as far as nifty AJAX apps go, look at BitFontMaker; it's an old-sk00l bitmap font editor in Javascript/DHTML, which, at the touch of a button, sends its data back to the server, which sends it back in a TrueType font file.
Australian amateur-erotica sites such as ishotmyself.com use 18 as the minimum age, presumably because they are accessible from the US, and could be prosecuted if pictures of 17-year-olds were downloaded from the US. Sites from Britain (another jurisdiction where the age of consent is 16) do similarly.
Because of the US's prominence and economic clout, 18 has become the de facto international age of consent for nude photography, despite there being no international photo-erotica treaty or anything. No site operator wants to block out American customers (of whom there are a lot), or to have to avoid flights stopping in US-controlled territories to avoid being arrested and bundled off to a US federal prison like a common paedophile.
With that in mind, aren't we glad Saudi Arabia isn't a major force on the internet and popular international destination.