The EULA does say that you can't collect damages, and have to arbitrate confidentially in Seattle.
Makes you wonder if people who had this are free to breach the other parts of the contract now that Amazon has breached their duty? Could they reverse engineer now?
The folks at TechnicallyLegal (disclaimer, I'm a writer and podcaster there) wrote up a post as to why her decision in the copyright case will have little bearing on the outcome of the RIAA cases. And why her reasoning there isn't really indicitive of what her reasoning may be in those cases.
Heinlein had a solution: send couples. Of course, then they cheat on each other, have illegitimate babies, die on mars, their son is then raised by Martians and comes back to earth and starts a cult, and gets stoned to death. On second though, maybe sending couples isn't the best idea.
The actual test would have been: that, taking everything in KinderStart's pleadings to be true, they still did not state a claim for which relief could be granted. Basically, no where is there anything that creates a duty for a company to make its searches fair.
"pork barrel" refers to legislation which appropriates money to the district of a congressman or the state of a senator, specifically something which the federal government really has no business giving money to but that's how you make deals in Washington. Not, as you suggest, something that is a piece of legislation that every has to vote for in order to look good.
Yes, if only because we are no longer a month after 9/11 and some reason has returned to the smaller of the two houses on the hill. The PATRIOT act is no longer a piece of "must pass" legislation which everyone is expected to vote for
There is obviously a notable lack of understanding of senate procedure here.
The expanded Patriot act is "out of committee." Now the full senate has to vote on it, the house needs to get their similar bill out of committee and they need to vote on it, and the president has to sign it.
There is no question that if it goes to the president he will sign it, but the bill may not make it out of the senate.
Apple could argue that since the song was song acopella it is protected, as all acopella is, under the first amendment as parody. I don't know how well that would fly though.
it's actually a diuretic, which means that it makes pushes water though your system faster, and it's only a little faster. The amount of urine produced after one cup of coffee is only slightly more than that after one cup of water.
The major advantage and disadvantage to biological computing right now is speed. While it can solve some problems much faster than normal computers (due to it's massive parallel computing capabilities), making the DNA to solve the problem, and finding the answer take a long time as well. While both those are speeding up, it will be sometime before it is economically sound to do DNA calculations in anything other than a laboratory environment.
Ech, How long will two AA batteries run an optical drive and a color display with a backlight? My guess is about how long the Game Gear lasted on four AAs, a couple of hours.
I attend the University of Rochester, and I have to say, this kinda of bothers me. . . I mean, what if I am taking an optics course and I get the teacher really angry durring Laser Lab?
There seems to be a battle growing between integration and segration in the Computer Industry.
First it was the internet appliances, with the thinking that people would eventually want seperate "computers" for web browsing, typing, etc.
Now we have the idea of tablets as alternatives to laptops, and a camears being integrated into phones and PDAs.
It seems that people can't decide how many devices they want on them at any givem time. Will we ever see a balance between integration and segragation of digital devices?
The iBook uses a processor that is years behind the state of the art
Not entirely true. Granted it is based on the G3 which is quite old, but it has gone though *many* revisions, to the point that it is close to a G4 w/o altivec.
Something like the Fujitsu LifeBook P-2000 beats the iBook in terms of features, battery life (with extended battery), size, and weight for only a little more money
By a little more money you mean almost twice as much, and it's a sub compact note book with a paltry 10.6" screen and a less than full sized keyboard. I don't see how it compares.
calling the iBook "full featured" is not really fair
It seems to have all the features of high end laptops, screen, USB, Fire wire, ethernet, wireless connectivity, modem, optical drive, RAM and harddrive.
iven that its processor is a shitty and outdated 800MHz G3
How does a slightly outdated processor imply that it is missing features?
ell, some new PDAs begin to approach it in terms of speed. Name one PDA which has a processor faster than 500 MHz, and from there name one that is RISC.
Sure, the shell is nicely designed, but it's extremely outdated hardware. The G4 is about a generation behind current x86 chips, and the G3 is a generation behind that.
sigh, I thought we were beyond this entire MHz Myth stuff. ..
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Gants concurred (agreed with the court, but on different grounds), he did not dissent. Also, he's probably wrong.
http://www.technicallylegal.org/de-fud-ma-gps-tracking-case/
It's a tough question. We're hoping to cover it more over the weekend (or possibly on our weekly podcast).
Sorry I don't have more for you right now, I'm running out the door.
They actually breached their license agreements with their users who downloaded the book:
http://www.technicallylegal.org/amazon-breaches-kindle-user-contracts/
The EULA does say that you can't collect damages, and have to arbitrate confidentially in Seattle.
Makes you wonder if people who had this are free to breach the other parts of the contract now that Amazon has breached their duty? Could they reverse engineer now?
The folks at TechnicallyLegal (disclaimer, I'm a writer and podcaster there) wrote up a post as to why her decision in the copyright case will have little bearing on the outcome of the RIAA cases. And why her reasoning there isn't really indicitive of what her reasoning may be in those cases.
http://www.technicallylegal.org/de-fud-sotomayors-stance-on-copyright-infringement/
Heinlein had a solution: send couples. Of course, then they cheat on each other, have illegitimate babies, die on mars, their son is then raised by Martians and comes back to earth and starts a cult, and gets stoned to death. On second though, maybe sending couples isn't the best idea.
The actual test would have been: that, taking everything in KinderStart's pleadings to be true, they still did not state a claim for which relief could be granted. Basically, no where is there anything that creates a duty for a company to make its searches fair.
Bah, it was fair use of both the song and the photon.
"pork barrel" refers to legislation which appropriates money to the district of a congressman or the state of a senator, specifically something which the federal government really has no business giving money to but that's how you make deals in Washington. Not, as you suggest, something that is a piece of legislation that every has to vote for in order to look good.
Yes, if only because we are no longer a month after 9/11 and some reason has returned to the smaller of the two houses on the hill. The PATRIOT act is no longer a piece of "must pass" legislation which everyone is expected to vote for
There is obviously a notable lack of understanding of senate procedure here.
The expanded Patriot act is "out of committee." Now the full senate has to vote on it, the house needs to get their similar bill out of committee and they need to vote on it, and the president has to sign it.
There is no question that if it goes to the president he will sign it, but the bill may not make it out of the senate.
Apple could argue that since the song was song acopella it is protected, as all acopella is, under the first amendment as parody. I don't know how well that would fly though.
it's actually a diuretic, which means that it makes pushes water though your system faster, and it's only a little faster. The amount of urine produced after one cup of coffee is only slightly more than that after one cup of water.
It is a mix of Hexagonal and Penatagonal shapes, more commonly seen as a C60 (carbon60) or Bucky-Ball.
Is it just me, or did he just imply that buckey balls are a more common site then soccer balls/footballs?
Google should have known better, Don't Squeeze the Sharman
The major advantage and disadvantage to biological computing right now is speed. While it can solve some problems much faster than normal computers (due to it's massive parallel computing capabilities), making the DNA to solve the problem, and finding the answer take a long time as well. While both those are speeding up, it will be sometime before it is economically sound to do DNA calculations in anything other than a laboratory environment.
I actually says it dosen't work badly, but not as well as it sounds like it will work.
It seems to not work with OS X using instructions above, perhaps something else has to be done.
Ech, How long will two AA batteries run an optical drive and a color display with a backlight? My guess is about how long the Game Gear lasted on four AAs, a couple of hours.
I attend the University of Rochester, and I have to say, this kinda of bothers me. . . I mean, what if I am taking an optics course and I get the teacher really angry durring Laser Lab?
What's to prevent me from being vaporized? huh?
There seems to be a battle growing between integration and segration in the Computer Industry.
First it was the internet appliances, with the thinking that people would eventually want seperate "computers" for web browsing, typing, etc.
Now we have the idea of tablets as alternatives to laptops, and a camears being integrated into phones and PDAs.
It seems that people can't decide how many devices they want on them at any givem time. Will we ever see a balance between integration and segragation of digital devices?
The iBook uses a processor that is years behind the state of the art
Not entirely true. Granted it is based on the G3 which is quite old, but it has gone though *many* revisions, to the point that it is close to a G4 w/o altivec.
Something like the Fujitsu LifeBook P-2000 beats the iBook in terms of features, battery life (with extended battery), size, and weight for only a little more money
By a little more money you mean almost twice as much, and it's a sub compact note book with a paltry 10.6" screen and a less than full sized keyboard. I don't see how it compares.
calling the iBook "full featured" is not really fair
.
It seems to have all the features of high end laptops, screen, USB, Fire wire, ethernet, wireless connectivity, modem, optical drive, RAM and harddrive.
iven that its processor is a shitty and outdated 800MHz G3
How does a slightly outdated processor imply that it is missing features?
ell, some new PDAs begin to approach it in terms of speed.
Name one PDA which has a processor faster than 500 MHz, and from there name one that is RISC.
Sure, the shell is nicely designed, but it's extremely outdated hardware. The G4 is about a generation behind current x86 chips, and the G3 is a generation behind that.
sigh, I thought we were beyond this entire MHz Myth stuff. .
The iPod has a bigger screen, but it can only use Firewire.
The new iPod (via its new bottom connector) can use either USB 2.0, or Firewire)
Which you could also do via FireWire (faster than USB 2.0) with an iPod as well as it supports firewire disc mode. . .
that would be an extra $200 for the Nomad Zen and an extra $133 on the iPod, bringing the price differeance to about $30