Unless Apple has a contract signed by Psystar where they agreed to such terms, then Psystar is not a party to any such contract. Further, if they exchanged cash (or cash-equivalent, eg check, electronic payment, etc) for a physical item such as a disc, then they did in fact *buy* a copy of a program, and they are in fact owners of it.
Apple (and anyone else) can pretend that a software purchase isn't really a purchase all they want. If you walk into a store, pick up an item (or ask for it to be retrieved from backroom or a display case), a store employee 'rings it up', and you lay a mutually agreed amount of cash on the counter, and walk out of the store with that item, then you have in fact *BOUGHT* a copy of that software.
"Rights of the owner of a purchased item to control its disposition."
If I were, for some reason, to *PURCHASE* a copy of OSX, then there is no 'contract'. I do not agree to any EULA's or shrinkwrap licenses.
I can do FUCK ALL WHATEVER THE HELL I want with that individual copy, as long as I don't distribute copies of it to other people. I *CAN* make a personal copy for backup purposes. I can use the disc as a coaster or I can use its contents as an entropy source for a random number generator. I can use it as a bookmark while reading War and Peace, or I can nail it to the wall to use as a mirror. And I sure as hell can run it on whatever hardware I choose that I can manage to get it to run on, including but not limited to my toaster, my microwave oven or my fax machine, or any computer I purchase from anywhere made by anyone.
Again, this is assuming that the party in question has purchased a copy of OSX. If they received it via some manner of distribution that violated copyright, then that is an entirely different matter.
I also *CAN* sell that copy to another individual (providing I do not retain any backup copies) for any price that I am willing to accept and the other individual is willing to pay.
Presumably, either Psystar (or the end user) *do* have to buy a copy/license of/for OSX in order to run it. The fact that they choose to run it on hardware not sold by Apple may make Apple unhappy, but short of refusing to sell OSX except bundled with a new mac, there isn't anything they can legally do about it.
I think google will agree to stop linking to him long before it reaches any possibility of a court ordering google to pay him..
Market forces are against him. If he *wants* google to drive visitors to his site(s), he isn't going to be able to demand payment. The only way he could demand payment is if he *objected* to them indexing his sites.
You cannot expect someone else to pay *for* for providing something that is of value to *you*. Of course, the indexing is also valuable to the people that use it to find information, but I suspect not enough that they'd be willing to have to pay for it.
Some banks, instead of sending you the message outright in email, instead have a sort of message system within their online banking, and if they send you something there, they send you an email notice to go check your messages.
Its a decent idea, as long as they 1. Dont include any links, and instead let you enter the bank site yourself and 2. Absolutely use it *ONLY* for directly personal information related to *your* account (eg no ads, promotions or newsletters)
Oh, and it helps if you try to avoid using insecure software such as MSIE or Windows when doing your online banking, too, but of course no individual bank has the ability to prevent you from doing that. Sure, they could refuse to allow you to login, but the cattle would probably switch banks before switching software.
"Open Source" misses the point. Being able to *see* it is of little use if people that receive it are not also able to modify it, release the modified versions, use it for any purpose, and freely copy it.
Free Software does not benefit from having more software developed for proprietary software platforms. Write Free Software in languages with API's that are themselves fully Free Software.
Here is the 'bad' scenario - Lots of developers spend lots of time making "Mono"/"Dot Net" software, and then Microsoft changes the terms, and either renders all that software unusable on Windows, unusable on Free platforms, or steals it all from the developers and shuts them and everything Free completely out of the loop.
I think that was the entire point. He either wanted to make sure that the museum *couldnt* copy it, or wanted to prohibit them from doing so. My response would be 'goodluckwiththat'
1. "IP" (assume you mean "Intellectual Property") is a weasel word. It has no meaning. 2. "Open Source" isn't what has issues. Google has an issue with this guy distributing their copyright software without a license, which is entirely their perogative 3. It is also entirely an individual user/owner of an Android phone perogative to save a backup copy of these copyright apps so as to facilitate reinstalling them after switching from Android to this Cyanogen.
Yes, because if your child is abducted you want to make sure that in addition to whatever fear of the kidnappers they have that they are in pain from electroshock too.
Spoken like a moron that doesn't have children, and probably shouldn't be allowed to.
Looks like a great project, however the website has got to be one of the most horrid and difficult to use things Ive seen in a web browser. Ever. Add that apparently they have been drinking from the MS Silverlight koolaid machine, and despite my interest in the project, I can say it will not be a site I will waste my time visiting anymore.
Exactly. I can read pretty much read any random PDF found on the net or sent to me, with my choice of tools (Adobe, xpdf, evince, etc). Likewise, I can produce postscript (which I can convert to pdf that can be read with the same choice of tools [Adobe, xpdf, evince, etc] ) with anything that can 'print' documents on my Debian system
I have yet to see anything approaching that level of interoperability, BY DEFAULT, using MS formats. And if it ever comes, it will be only after MS has lodged every possible protest and done everything else possible to prevent it.
Yes, MS actually doing what unix did 40 years ago is very "2000s".
Of course, it will also suck, as Winders is completely not designed to be used remotely. Or by more than one person at a time. Even their so-called 'server' versions.
.. the first time somebody finds it, your TV is gone. Only with DRM it's several hundred copies of your TV that's gone.
Not exactly. If you leave your key on the front porch, someone can come in and take your TV, then your TV is gone - eg you no longer have your TV - we havent (yet) come up with a way to instantaneously copy something like a TV at a cost that is effectively 'free'.
Anything that could be considered "information" (such as music, books, music, etc) that is stored in a digital form *can* be copied for a cost that is so insignificant so as to be effectively 'free'. *AND* if someone makes a copy, two copies, or a million copies - nothing is "gone" - you have not been deprived of the original.
To most sane people, this is considered an advantage. Yes, it poses problems for the people who like to keep artists and authors as slaves, and who feel a sense of entitlement anytime anyone anywhere in the world hears or sees something that has origins in work done by one of their slaves. But that business model is obsolete, and continued attempts at artificially sustaining it are themselves becoming a form of entertainment in their own right.
Fsck that. I *never* consider the 'price after rebate' to be the price. I consider the 'amount of cash I have to hand to the clerk to carry it out of the store' to be the price of an item.
Why should I loan some retailer $50 of my money, at 0% interest, and then have to jump through hoops to get it back (including sending original copies of documents (receipt) that if *they* lose or claim they never got, then I no longer have the original to prove I have a valid claim)? If the goddamn price is $150, then you accept my $150, and *you* (retailer) fark around getting the other $50 from the manufacturer. If I have to give you $200 to get it out of the store, then as far as I'm concerned, the price is $200.
So "$175" (out the door, no hoop-jumping) is a better price than"$150 ('after $50 rebate')"
It is also a testament to the lack of consumer-savvy of the average person/'teenager'. (aka sheeple)
As long as you have Internet access (most people seem to), email is free and (effectively) unlimited. It doesn't cost 15c per message, or even 1c per message. While you can voluntarily choose to send a maximum of 160 chars per message, there is no built in limit. You can send 1600, or even 16000 per message, if you want.
If you have a remotely modern cellphone, you can even access email from your cellphone. Of course, you have to at least have some smarts here, since the cell carriers prefer to sell you a locked-down phone that doesn't have email (which doesnt get them revenue).
"Texting" is also a closed network as far as entry. There is no easy way to create your own 'text' server that can accept texts from other providers. It is not closed in terms of gateway - eg - you can send an SMS to most cell phone customers from email using an address composed of their phone number @ something like textmessage.provider.tld.
Its trivial for spammers to send spam texts, but quite difficult to create throw-away numbers to use when registering for websites, as opposed to email, where creating a handful of yahoo or hotmail accounts to give to the intrusive website is trivial.
# Everyone seems to forget that browsers can SCROLL - no need to # break ONE ARTICLE into dozens of separate pages that need to be # loaded one at time, forcing you to wait for for it to load each tiny bit # over the net - if its all one scrollable page, all the rest of it loads while # you are reading the first part, then all one has to do is scroll the page. # If you really need an ad impression for each photo, put them all on the same page too.
Slashdot Mirror
There might be an airplane more for the touch, but it isn't going to be talking to cell towers either way, at all.
You are confusing X with a desktop/session manager. What you want is Gnome and/or KDE.
X is just a display-device-independent way of drawing crap on a screen. (and receiving keyboard and pointer input) It is not a "Desktop"
You seem to assume that it is impossible that a Chinese ISP might interconnect with a Japanese ISP for transit to the US.
Unless Apple has a contract signed by Psystar where they agreed to such terms, then Psystar is not a party to any such contract. Further, if they exchanged cash (or cash-equivalent, eg check, electronic payment, etc) for a physical item such as a disc, then they did in fact *buy* a copy of a program, and they are in fact owners of it.
Apple (and anyone else) can pretend that a software purchase isn't really a purchase all they want. If you walk into a store, pick up an item (or ask for it to be retrieved from backroom or a display case), a store employee 'rings it up', and you lay a mutually agreed amount of cash on the counter, and walk out of the store with that item, then you have in fact *BOUGHT* a copy of that software.
Things to google:
"First Sale Doctrine"
"Rights of the owner of a purchased item to control its disposition."
If I were, for some reason, to *PURCHASE* a copy of OSX, then there is no 'contract'. I do not agree to any EULA's or shrinkwrap licenses.
I can do FUCK ALL WHATEVER THE HELL I want with that individual copy, as long as I don't distribute copies of it to other people. I *CAN* make a personal copy for backup purposes. I can use the disc as a coaster or I can use its contents as an entropy source for a random number generator. I can use it as a bookmark while reading War and Peace, or I can nail it to the wall to use as a mirror. And I sure as hell can run it on whatever hardware I choose that I can manage to get it to run on, including but not limited to my toaster, my microwave oven or my fax machine, or any computer I purchase from anywhere made by anyone.
Again, this is assuming that the party in question has purchased a copy of OSX. If they received it via some manner of distribution that violated copyright, then that is an entirely different matter.
I also *CAN* sell that copy to another individual (providing I do not retain any backup copies) for any price that I am willing to accept and the other individual is willing to pay.
Presumably, either Psystar (or the end user) *do* have to buy a copy/license of/for OSX in order to run it. The fact that they choose to run it on hardware not sold by Apple may make Apple unhappy, but short of refusing to sell OSX except bundled with a new mac, there isn't anything they can legally do about it.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/
I think google will agree to stop linking to him long before it reaches any possibility of a court ordering google to pay him..
Market forces are against him. If he *wants* google to drive visitors to his site(s), he isn't going to be able to demand payment. The only way he could demand payment is if he *objected* to them indexing his sites.
You cannot expect someone else to pay *for* for providing something that is of value to *you*. Of course, the indexing is also valuable to the people that use it to find information, but I suspect not enough that they'd be willing to have to pay for it.
"Mutual benefit" like Internet peering ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering )
He doesn't want google to stop driving browsers to his site - he just wants them to start giving him money.
Some banks, instead of sending you the message outright in email, instead have a sort of message system within their online banking, and if they send you something there, they send you an email notice to go check your messages.
Its a decent idea, as long as they 1. Dont include any links, and instead let you enter the bank site yourself and 2. Absolutely use it *ONLY* for directly personal information related to *your* account (eg no ads, promotions or newsletters)
Oh, and it helps if you try to avoid using insecure software such as MSIE or Windows when doing your online banking, too, but of course no individual bank has the ability to prevent you from doing that. Sure, they could refuse to allow you to login, but the cattle would probably switch banks before switching software.
If you think thawte and/or verisign actually do anything to verify anything (other than that the persons credit card works) you are a fool.
"Open Source" misses the point. Being able to *see* it is of little use if people that receive it are not also able to modify it, release the modified versions, use it for any purpose, and freely copy it.
Free Software does not benefit from having more software developed for proprietary software platforms. Write Free Software in languages with API's that are themselves fully Free Software.
Here is the 'bad' scenario - Lots of developers spend lots of time making "Mono"/"Dot Net" software, and then Microsoft changes the terms, and either renders all that software unusable on Windows, unusable on Free platforms, or steals it all from the developers and shuts them and everything Free completely out of the loop.
Windows is a downgrade. A variety of upgrades are available for free. Here are links to just two, Google can help find the others.
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/
I think that was the entire point. He either wanted to make sure that the museum *couldnt* copy it, or wanted to prohibit them from doing so. My response would be 'goodluckwiththat'
1. "IP" (assume you mean "Intellectual Property") is a weasel word. It has no meaning.
2. "Open Source" isn't what has issues. Google has an issue with this guy distributing their copyright software without a license, which is entirely their perogative
3. It is also entirely an individual user/owner of an Android phone perogative to save a backup copy of these copyright apps so as to facilitate reinstalling them after switching from Android to this Cyanogen.
Yes, because if your child is abducted you want to make sure that in addition to whatever fear of the kidnappers they have that they are in pain from electroshock too.
Spoken like a moron that doesn't have children, and probably shouldn't be allowed to.
Looks like a great project, however the website has got to be one of the most horrid and difficult to use things Ive seen in a web browser. Ever. Add that apparently they have been drinking from the MS Silverlight koolaid machine, and despite my interest in the project, I can say it will not be a site I will waste my time visiting anymore.
Exactly. I can read pretty much read any random PDF found on the net or sent to me, with my choice of tools (Adobe, xpdf, evince, etc). Likewise, I can produce postscript (which I can convert to pdf that can be read with the same choice of tools [Adobe, xpdf, evince, etc] ) with anything that can 'print' documents on my Debian system
I have yet to see anything approaching that level of interoperability, BY DEFAULT, using MS formats. And if it ever comes, it will be only after MS has lodged every possible protest and done everything else possible to prevent it.
Yes, MS actually doing what unix did 40 years ago is very "2000s".
Of course, it will also suck, as Winders is completely not designed to be used remotely. Or by more than one person at a time. Even their so-called 'server' versions.
Exactly:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty
Not exactly. If you leave your key on the front porch, someone can come in and take your TV, then your TV is gone - eg you no longer have your TV - we havent (yet) come up with a way to instantaneously copy something like a TV at a cost that is effectively 'free'.
Anything that could be considered "information" (such as music, books, music, etc) that is stored in a digital form *can* be copied for a cost that is so insignificant so as to be effectively 'free'. *AND* if someone makes a copy, two copies, or a million copies - nothing is "gone" - you have not been deprived of the original.
To most sane people, this is considered an advantage. Yes, it poses problems for the people who like to keep artists and authors as slaves, and who feel a sense of entitlement anytime anyone anywhere in the world hears or sees something that has origins in work done by one of their slaves. But that business model is obsolete, and continued attempts at artificially sustaining it are themselves becoming a form of entertainment in their own right.
DRM is dead! Long live DRM!
Fsck that. I *never* consider the 'price after rebate' to be the price. I consider the 'amount of cash I have to hand to the clerk to carry it out of the store' to be the price of an item.
Why should I loan some retailer $50 of my money, at 0% interest, and then have to jump through hoops to get it back (including sending original copies of documents (receipt) that if *they* lose or claim they never got, then I no longer have the original to prove I have a valid claim)? If the goddamn price is $150, then you accept my $150, and *you* (retailer) fark around getting the other $50 from the manufacturer. If I have to give you $200 to get it out of the store, then as far as I'm concerned, the price is $200.
So "$175" (out the door, no hoop-jumping) is a better price than"$150 ('after $50 rebate')"
It is also a testament to the lack of consumer-savvy of the average person/'teenager'. (aka sheeple)
As long as you have Internet access (most people seem to), email is free and (effectively) unlimited. It doesn't cost 15c per message, or even 1c per message. While you can voluntarily choose to send a maximum of 160 chars per message, there is no built in limit. You can send 1600, or even 16000 per message, if you want.
If you have a remotely modern cellphone, you can even access email from your cellphone. Of course, you have to at least have some smarts here, since the cell carriers prefer to sell you a locked-down phone that doesn't have email (which doesnt get them revenue).
"Texting" is also a closed network as far as entry. There is no easy way to create your own 'text' server that can accept texts from other providers. It is not closed in terms of gateway - eg - you can send an SMS to most cell phone customers from email using an address composed of their phone number @ something like textmessage.provider.tld.
Its trivial for spammers to send spam texts, but quite difficult to create throw-away numbers to use when registering for websites, as opposed to email, where creating a handful of yahoo or hotmail accounts to give to the intrusive website is trivial.
#!/bin/sh
# Everyone seems to forget that browsers can SCROLL - no need to
# break ONE ARTICLE into dozens of separate pages that need to be
# loaded one at time, forcing you to wait for for it to load each tiny bit
# over the net - if its all one scrollable page, all the rest of it loads while
# you are reading the first part, then all one has to do is scroll the page.
# If you really need an ad impression for each photo, put them all on the same page too.
BASE1=http://www.pcauthority.com.au/
BASE2=Gallery/153867,computer-history-museum-photo-gallery-weird-fascinating-photos-including-a-giant-cray-and-a-60kg-hard-drive.aspx/
BASE=${BASE1}${BASE2}
(
x=1
while ( test $x -lt 58); do
echo "<P>"
wget ${1}.htf ${BASE}${x} | grep ImageGallery_CurrentImage | sed 's/</<br></g'
echo "<P>"
x=$(($x+1))
done
) > file.html