Ok he couldn't get it to sync - maybe he could have called tech support and worked through that one.
As for the lack of software - well it's a new device what do you expect ? I'm sure it won't take long for all kinds of linux software to be ported.
Apart from the complaint about the syncing and the keyboard this review seems to lack any substance whatsoever - no real information as to the quality of the built in applications.
The battery life doesn't seem to bad compared to other colour PDA's - the handspring prism only manages 6 hour without the backlight so 10 hours is almost 70% better.
The entire article could probably be summed up as "I don't like it".
Yes you're right this would be a business user scenario - it was orginally a question posed to a microsoft licensing rep make sure we were understanding the issues correctly.
I would imagine the station doesn't pay for the networked movies - as the network licenses them for the whole country - but I was more thinking in cases where the local station pre-empts a network show with it's own programming.
You sort of chose the worst possible example of obtuse licensing to make a point, and I don't think that's helpful in the big sense.
I didn't make the license obtuse - I simply decided to research the licensing on a product that is one of the more useful products that microsoft produce. Windows Terminal server would get a lot more use if people could read thre license and comply with it without spending a fortune on licenses they don't really need.
The only problem i can see here is the license fees paid by local stations for movies etc. are tied to the number of viewers - so by making the channel available to the whole country could force up these costs.
It's a lot less complicated than worrying about proprietary licenses - and if you think license conditions are easy to follow in MS licenses, read this:
We sat down and tried to figure this out step by step by step by step. We actually looked up the license agreements to ensure compliance. We think we have a handle on this.
Here's the scenario.
I'm at my local municipal library, and I want to check my Groupwise address book for a name. So I quick connect to my Citrix server from the library Windows95 machine. Here is the thought process that every user must use to make this legal, and prevent MS from labeling you a software pirate.
Hmmmm. This machine is a Win95 machine, and the office Terminal server is a Winnt 2000 Advance Server, so because the remote OS level is less than the Terminal Server, I'm going to need to allocate one of my NT server CALs and a Terminal Server CAL (TCAL) to this library machine. I'll have to call the IS guy to make sure the licensing hofix has been applied to the server, just in case it isn't and the license allocation is permanent and unreclaimable. If I already have a TCAL assigned to my primary computer at the office, I can purchase a Terminal Server Work at Home license instead to save some cash. If I've never connected to the Terminal Server from my desk at the Office, then I'll need to allocate a full TCAL for this library machine. Hmmm... maybe I should check with Joe, because I know he connected from here a few months ago, and it's possible that the Work At Home TCAL, and the Office licensing we purchased for this library machine is still valid.
Because the Terminal Server has Office installed, even though I don't want to run the blasted Office software, I'll also need to verify whether Office is installed locally here at the library. If it is, I can get away with purchasing a Work At Home Office license. Wait. Better check first with the IT guys again to verify that we have not upgraded our Select 3 license agreement which implied home use licenses. I should probably also verify whether the Work At Home license applies if I'm not at home. If we have a Select 4, or 5, or Enterprise 4, or 5, agreement at the Office, then we can purchase and apply a Work At Home license to the connection. In any case, the IT guys should know whether they have more WorkAt Home licenses purchased than they own in full Office licensing, because Microsoft only allows one Work At Home license per full license. If they tell me that we only have an Open license agreement at the Office, Work At Home licenses do not apply and in this case I would need to purchase an entire Office Suite for the library computer so I can find the address in my GroupWise Address book. This is because it happens that the Terminal server has Office installed on it, and every device that connects to the server will also require an equal Office license.
No they may not - Philips have already warned all the record labels that they would regard use of the CDDA logo on such discs and trademark infringement.
Although they also said they weren't planning on suing immediately as poor sales would likely kill copy protection before the case gets to court.
At the senate hearings Hollings was badgering intel to come up with a protection system that would stop people playing exisiting open content - and basically accused them of supporting piracy when they said they couldn't.
That's because there's no real question. If the encryption is broken, the by definition the movie copyable. The point of the hardware is prevent (or allow under restricted circumstances) the copying of marked, encyrypted content.
In other words, the copy protection is contained in the encryption, which is read by the special hardware.
But the way the bill is written it would be illegal for your computer to play content which is not protected. Doesn't make much sense but that's what got intel so mad in the first place. Hollings is asking to put the genie back in the bottle.
That's the problem with a contract for free - hard to show it's valid unless the other party got something of value out of it too. Of course this is using English contractual theory and may not hold for all jursidictions.
Although any demographic information they collceted could arguably be something of value - heck even candy bar wrappers have been allowed in the past.
1. The parties must be capable of entering into a contract. This generally means being of legal age and not judged incompetent (i.e. being found incompetent by the court), but not necessarily: in Canada (at least) minors can enter into contracts that are legally binding on the other party, but not on the minor. There are also certain situations where one can not refuse to enter into a contract with a minor (generally for "necessaries" or tools of a trade) if one is generally in business.
I've often wondered if a child can legally purchase something in a store seeing as the purchase would require the parties to enter into a contract...
The term windows has been associated with windowing systems (obviously) since long before Microsoft Windows. Microsoft were the only ones audacious enough to claim the name Windows as their own.
So windows was / is a generic term even in the world of windowing systems which makes it even harder to protect. Had microsoft invented the term window it would have been easier for them to protect.
It's entirely possible to trademark a name in a particular market that would ordinarily sound like a regular word provided that the name wouldn't be a generic term in that market. e.g. making a medicine called Windows or a truck called a Ram. However naming a truck Truck would give you no protection.
So it seems that windows is a very weak trademark because it is derived from windowing systems which were around and called windowing systems before windows.
Microsoft have a long history of these kind of poor trademark choices - look at MS-DOS - ok you can't produce a product called MS-DOS - but DOS itself is a generic term.
actually many radio stations don't use cd's anymore - it's all stored in computers and downloaded from the record companies, that's how they control the playlists.
No that would be a breach of contract - verio can't legally impose new terms on customers who signed up under different terms. Unless TLG's terms specifically provided for unilateral modifications of terms.
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Call that a review ?
Ok he couldn't get it to sync - maybe he could have called tech support and worked through that one.
As for the lack of software - well it's a new device what do you expect ? I'm sure it won't take long for all kinds of linux software to be ported.
Apart from the complaint about the syncing and the keyboard this review seems to lack any substance whatsoever - no real information as to the quality of the built in applications.
The battery life doesn't seem to bad compared to other colour PDA's - the handspring prism only manages 6 hour without the backlight so 10 hours is almost 70% better.
The entire article could probably be summed up as "I don't like it".
No
It was "too complicated" for them to provide an explanation.
it happens for movies too - more often that you'd think.
pirate !
Yes you're right this would be a business user scenario - it was orginally a question posed to a microsoft licensing rep make sure we were understanding the issues correctly.
I would imagine the station doesn't pay for the networked movies - as the network licenses them for the whole country - but I was more thinking in cases where the local station pre-empts a network show with it's own programming.
You sort of chose the worst possible example of obtuse licensing to make a point, and I don't think that's helpful in the big sense.
I didn't make the license obtuse - I simply decided to research the licensing on a product that is one of the more useful products that microsoft produce. Windows Terminal server would get a lot more use if people could read thre license and comply with it without spending a fortune on licenses they don't really need.
The only problem i can see here is the license fees paid by local stations for movies etc. are tied to the number of viewers - so by making the channel available to the whole country could force up these costs.
It's a lot less complicated than worrying about proprietary licenses - and if you think license conditions are easy to follow in MS licenses, read this:
We sat down and tried to figure this out step by step by step by step. We actually looked up the license agreements to ensure compliance. We think we have a handle on this.
Here's the scenario.
I'm at my local municipal library, and I want to check my Groupwise address book for a name. So I quick connect to my Citrix server from the library Windows95 machine. Here is the thought process that every user must use to make this legal, and prevent MS from labeling you a software pirate.
Hmmmm. This machine is a Win95 machine, and the office Terminal server is a Winnt 2000 Advance Server, so because the remote OS level is less than the Terminal Server, I'm going to need to allocate one of my NT server CALs and a Terminal Server CAL (TCAL) to this library machine. I'll have to call the IS guy to make sure the licensing hofix has been applied to the server, just in case it isn't and the license allocation is permanent and unreclaimable. If I already have a TCAL assigned to my primary computer at the office, I can purchase a Terminal Server Work at Home license instead to save some cash. If I've never connected to the Terminal Server from my desk at the Office, then I'll need to allocate a full TCAL for this library machine. Hmmm... maybe I should check with Joe, because I know he connected from here a few months ago, and it's possible that the Work At Home TCAL, and the Office licensing we purchased for this library machine is still valid.
Because the Terminal Server has Office installed, even though I don't want to run the blasted Office software, I'll also need to verify whether Office is installed locally here at the library. If it is, I can get away with purchasing a Work At Home Office license. Wait. Better check first with the IT guys again to verify that we have not upgraded our Select 3 license agreement which implied home use licenses. I should probably also verify whether the Work At Home license applies if I'm not at home. If we have a Select 4, or 5, or Enterprise 4, or 5, agreement at the Office, then we can purchase and apply a Work At Home license to the connection. In any case, the IT guys should know whether they have more WorkAt Home licenses purchased than they own in full Office licensing, because Microsoft only allows one Work At Home license per full license. If they tell me that we only have an Open license agreement at the Office, Work At Home licenses do not apply and in this case I would need to purchase an entire Office Suite for the library computer so I can find the address in my GroupWise Address book. This is because it happens that the Terminal server has Office installed on it, and every device that connects to the server will also require an equal Office license.
No they may not - Philips have already warned all the record labels that they would regard use of the CDDA logo on such discs and trademark infringement.
Although they also said they weren't planning on suing immediately as poor sales would likely kill copy protection before the case gets to court.
Yes they did do a remake of LSL-1 I bought it for one.
At the senate hearings Hollings was badgering intel to come up with a protection system that would stop people playing exisiting open content - and basically accused them of supporting piracy when they said they couldn't.
That's because there's no real question. If the encryption is broken, the by definition the movie copyable. The point of the hardware is prevent (or allow under restricted circumstances) the copying of marked, encyrypted content.
In other words, the copy protection is contained in the encryption, which is read by the special hardware.
But the way the bill is written it would be illegal for your computer to play content which is not protected. Doesn't make much sense but that's what got intel so mad in the first place. Hollings is asking to put the genie back in the bottle.
That's the problem with a contract for free - hard to show it's valid unless the other party got something of value out of it too. Of course this is using English contractual theory and may not hold for all jursidictions.
Although any demographic information they collceted could arguably be something of value - heck even candy bar wrappers have been allowed in the past.
You'll be telling me next that we use 16oz pints too :-)
Other way around actually
A british billion is 1 million million as opposed to 1 thousand million in a US billion
It may just be me but I'd like to see that co2 graph cover a range of a little more than 50 years. 50 years is such a short time to see a pattern
hmmm Haven't checked in on the state of the nuclear art lately - can you tell me one operation fast breeder reactor ?
1. The parties must be capable of entering into a contract. This generally means being of legal age and not judged incompetent (i.e. being found incompetent by the court), but not necessarily: in Canada (at least) minors can enter into contracts that are legally binding on the other party, but not on the minor. There are also certain situations where one can not refuse to enter into a contract with a minor (generally for "necessaries" or tools of a trade) if one is generally in business.
I've often wondered if a child can legally purchase something in a store seeing as the purchase would require the parties to enter into a contract...
The term windows as used by microsoft is a purely descriptive term - therefore it is very weak in terms of protection afforded by trademark law.
Imagine Budweiser changing its name to Beer and suing coors etc. for infrigement.
The term windows has been associated with windowing systems (obviously) since long before Microsoft Windows. Microsoft were the only ones audacious enough to claim the name Windows as their own.
So windows was / is a generic term even in the world of windowing systems which makes it even harder to protect. Had microsoft invented the term window it would have been easier for them to protect.
It's entirely possible to trademark a name in a particular market that would ordinarily sound like a regular word provided that the name wouldn't be a generic term in that market. e.g. making a medicine called Windows or a truck called a Ram. However naming a truck Truck would give you no protection.
So it seems that windows is a very weak trademark because it is derived from windowing systems which were around and called windowing systems before windows.
Microsoft have a long history of these kind of poor trademark choices - look at MS-DOS - ok you can't produce a product called MS-DOS - but DOS itself is a generic term.
"Washington (state) really wants to pass a personal income tax, but probably never will. "
Probably not as the state constitution prohibits it and the political will would probably never exist to amend the constitution.
it apparently checks the referrer header and denies access if you're not coming from the lucasfilm site.
actually many radio stations don't use cd's anymore - it's all stored in computers and downloaded from the record companies, that's how they control the playlists.
No that would be a breach of contract - verio can't legally impose new terms on customers who signed up under different terms. Unless TLG's terms specifically provided for unilateral modifications of terms.