Sure, you can get paid. Unfortunately all the editors get paid in VA Linux stock options, and as such they cannot afford their medicine or food on most days.
A "radio" is a device capable of wirelessly receiving audio broadcasts synchronously across dozens of channels. Assuming a modest 64 kilobits per second on one "radio" station, well-served markets such as New York City enjoy a total streaming throughput of well over two mibobites per second. This service is made available to the consumer free of charge thanks to the United States Free Communications Commission (FCC).
Tomorrow, we'll investigate how you can get over 80 channels of television-quality video in real-time streaming for about $50 a month.
Lawyers have said that Google News can never be run for profit, not that it must remain in "lawyer-induced beta" like that headline claims. Google News qualifies for Fair Use provisions as long as it is not a for-profit entity. It doesn't matter whether you call it "alpha," "beta," or "Suzy." Google News cannot make money; its entire purpose is to copy little samples of images and news from other companies' web sites.
Outlook is a full-fledged Exchange client with basic support for IMAP and POP mail.
Entourage is a full-fledged IMAP/POP e-mail client with basic support for Exchange. It doesn't support shared calendars, public folders, or many other features of Exchange.
For home users this is meaningless information. For companies that use Exchange as a groupware solution, it's very important. Microsoft doesn't develop a full Exchange client for the Mac, and it's very unlikely that they ever will.
The Sims is created and supported by EA, a company which has become like the Microsoft / Cisco / Computer Associates of the gaming world: they buy up as many companies as possible so they can profit off the licenses.
The Sims is an excellent game and has a very large fanbase, but don't discount the influence of its very powerful parent company.
Because Gmail is beta. You are forbidden from saying anything about Gmail while it's in beta.
Before Gmail gets out of beta, they will add a second GB of storage, free POP and IMAP support, and a professional-grade API for mail checking utilities.
Trust me. I heard it from this guy on a message board who saw a link from a blog on a web site that this one guy who delivers coffee supplies to Google once heard this information.
Well, I can't because Fink doesn't provide one of the required dependencies. The required dependency, db31, is only satisfied by switching to the "unstable" CVS/rsync distribution.
So no, Mac OS X users can't enjoy Evolution 2.0, or even 1.4 without jumping through a hoop or two.
Although I'm sure 75-80M PS2s have been sold, I wouldn't count them as the "installed base." Since PS2s are so poorly made, many people (myself included) have had to buy more than one after our first one broke.
That's nothing. This one time, I saw a well-known web site use the phrase "far equally awful as these" in an article. I'm not sure what they meant by that.
Most sports stadiums in the US use Symbol Palm OS PDAs to scan tickets. They won't let you in until the attendant scans a bar code and the PDA reads "Go!" If the bar code readers could read a mobile phone screen, people could use mobile phone tickets at stadiums in the US as well.
It also reduces the chance of counterfeit tickets, unless the counterfeiters figure out a way to steal legitimate tickets' bar codes.
Carnegie Mellon already has one blue building. It's called Donner Hall (large JPEG) and it'd be a nice joke if CMU were to name it after Gates instead. It's the residence hall where they stuff hundreds of freshmen every year.
Funny thing about Carnegie Mellon -- there's a lot of people there who spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and refer to it as the "evil empire," yet every Microsoft presentation is standing-room only. There are plenty of people there that actually respect Microsoft as a company, and of course President Jared Cohon was more than happy to accept a $20 million gift.
Now the Gates Center is a $50+ million project. If you want to name the building in your honor instead, you could always kick in the rest of the dough.
With Google Groups 2, Gmail, and Orkut, Google has proven that they have three distinguishing characteristics in any new marketplace.
People who know JavaScript well.
Server errors.
A legion of fans who brush away the server errors by saying "It's BETA! What do you expect?!"
A year from now, when My Google and Google Messenger launch, Google will be nothing other than a less graphical, more geeky version of Yahoo!. The Slashdot crowd will tire of the new sell-out "evil" Google and move on to another search engine. I suggest Teoma. It's unpopular, so it must be good.
Gmail still works poorly in Safari. When I try to view my inbox, half the time I see "Loading..." in the upper-left corner and the inbox never loads after several minutes of waiting.
I have to hit reload several times until Loading... appears in the upper-right corner instead. Then my inbox comes right up.
Safari works just fine with all the other webmail clients I've used. Gmail's JavaScript bloat just confuses the hell out of Safari.
Sorry to interrupt your rant, but the new Blackberry really does cost $199.
If you had bothered to read the article before cursing up a storm, you could have seen the sentences: "Now, the best part of the equation. T-Mobile, the only cellular carrier to sell the 7100t, has priced the device at a mind-boggling $199."
If a company chooses not to make more money on its valuable property, then why shouldn't the public be allowed to use it freely?
The problem with the Abandonware argument is that you have a group of users making decisions on behalf of the company. Many companies don't care if you make copies of their old work. However, Nintendo, Atari, Namco, Activision, and many other companies have made it very clear that they want to sell their games in as many ways as possible. If a company has not explicitly stated otherwise, they retain IP rights to their property whether or not they're actively in the business of making money on it.
Copyright is assigned to anyone who creates a work. You can't assume that just because you have copied a work without being caught, the company has lost all use of its copyright. Companies don't just exist to please groups of game fans; they primarily exist to make money, and Abandonware represents a clear threat to companies' revenue.
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Sure, you can get paid. Unfortunately all the editors get paid in VA Linux stock options, and as such they cannot afford their medicine or food on most days.
A "radio" is a device capable of wirelessly receiving audio broadcasts synchronously across dozens of channels. Assuming a modest 64 kilobits per second on one "radio" station, well-served markets such as New York City enjoy a total streaming throughput of well over two mibobites per second. This service is made available to the consumer free of charge thanks to the United States Free Communications Commission (FCC).
Tomorrow, we'll investigate how you can get over 80 channels of television-quality video in real-time streaming for about $50 a month.
Lawyers have said that Google News can never be run for profit, not that it must remain in "lawyer-induced beta" like that headline claims. Google News qualifies for Fair Use provisions as long as it is not a for-profit entity. It doesn't matter whether you call it "alpha," "beta," or "Suzy." Google News cannot make money; its entire purpose is to copy little samples of images and news from other companies' web sites.
Now if you want to start syndicating Google News yourself, Google has some news for you.
Outlook is a full-fledged Exchange client with basic support for IMAP and POP mail.
Entourage is a full-fledged IMAP/POP e-mail client with basic support for Exchange. It doesn't support shared calendars, public folders, or many other features of Exchange.
For home users this is meaningless information. For companies that use Exchange as a groupware solution, it's very important. Microsoft doesn't develop a full Exchange client for the Mac, and it's very unlikely that they ever will.
If only that image were higher-resolution, it'd be my new desktop background.
Google Sets came up with a list of common shampoo ingredients (?) after I seeded it with the four active ingredients in Pert Plus.
George W. Bush is on the fake $200 bill, which was passed around as recently as last month.
If you have a .pro domain, you're a professional. If you have a .am domain, you're an amateur. It's that simple. :)
The Sims is created and supported by EA, a company which has become like the Microsoft / Cisco / Computer Associates of the gaming world: they buy up as many companies as possible so they can profit off the licenses.
The Sims is an excellent game and has a very large fanbase, but don't discount the influence of its very powerful parent company.
Because Gmail is beta. You are forbidden from saying anything about Gmail while it's in beta.
Before Gmail gets out of beta, they will add a second GB of storage, free POP and IMAP support, and a professional-grade API for mail checking utilities.
Trust me. I heard it from this guy on a message board who saw a link from a blog on a web site that this one guy who delivers coffee supplies to Google once heard this information.
Well, I can't because Fink doesn't provide one of the required dependencies. The required dependency, db31, is only satisfied by switching to the "unstable" CVS/rsync distribution.
So no, Mac OS X users can't enjoy Evolution 2.0, or even 1.4 without jumping through a hoop or two.
We can?
Macrocosm:~ jweill$ sudo fink install evolution
Information about 1871 packages read in 1 seconds.
Failed: Can't resolve dependency "db31 (>= 3.1.17-9)" for package "evolution-1.4.6-10" (no matching packages/versions found)
Most PS2 games are free to play online. Only the MMORPGs actually cost money to play.
Although I'm sure 75-80M PS2s have been sold, I wouldn't count them as the "installed base." Since PS2s are so poorly made, many people (myself included) have had to buy more than one after our first one broke.
That's nothing. This one time, I saw a well-known web site use the phrase "far equally awful as these" in an article. I'm not sure what they meant by that.
Most sports stadiums in the US use Symbol Palm OS PDAs to scan tickets. They won't let you in until the attendant scans a bar code and the PDA reads "Go!" If the bar code readers could read a mobile phone screen, people could use mobile phone tickets at stadiums in the US as well.
It also reduces the chance of counterfeit tickets, unless the counterfeiters figure out a way to steal legitimate tickets' bar codes.
Carnegie Mellon already has one blue building. It's called Donner Hall (large JPEG) and it'd be a nice joke if CMU were to name it after Gates instead. It's the residence hall where they stuff hundreds of freshmen every year.
Funny thing about Carnegie Mellon -- there's a lot of people there who spell Microsoft with a dollar sign and refer to it as the "evil empire," yet every Microsoft presentation is standing-room only. There are plenty of people there that actually respect Microsoft as a company, and of course President Jared Cohon was more than happy to accept a $20 million gift.
Now the Gates Center is a $50+ million project. If you want to name the building in your honor instead, you could always kick in the rest of the dough.
With Google Groups 2, Gmail, and Orkut, Google has proven that they have three distinguishing characteristics in any new marketplace.
A year from now, when My Google and Google Messenger launch, Google will be nothing other than a less graphical, more geeky version of Yahoo!. The Slashdot crowd will tire of the new sell-out "evil" Google and move on to another search engine. I suggest Teoma. It's unpopular, so it must be good.
Gmail still works poorly in Safari. When I try to view my inbox, half the time I see "Loading..." in the upper-left corner and the inbox never loads after several minutes of waiting.
I have to hit reload several times until Loading... appears in the upper-right corner instead. Then my inbox comes right up.
Safari works just fine with all the other webmail clients I've used. Gmail's JavaScript bloat just confuses the hell out of Safari.
Sorry to interrupt your rant, but the new Blackberry really does cost $199.
If you had bothered to read the article before cursing up a storm, you could have seen the sentences: "Now, the best part of the equation. T-Mobile, the only cellular carrier to sell the 7100t, has priced the device at a mind-boggling $199."
From: Groklaw staff (staff@groklaw.com) [ADD "NOSPAM" BEFORE .com]
To: Anonymous Coward (tepples@pineight.com) [ADD NOSPAM AFTER @ SIGN]
Subject: Re: Abandonware
Yes.
--- Original Message ---
From: Anonymous Coward (e-mail)
To: Groklaw staff (e-mail)
Subject: Re: Abandonware
Is Abandonware piracy?
Sorry, I forgot I was arguing with a member of Pin Eight, a game development group which posts self-serving rants about IP law on its web page.
Have fun with your armchair lawyering. Keep me out of it.
If a company chooses not to make more money on its valuable property, then why shouldn't the public be allowed to use it freely?
The problem with the Abandonware argument is that you have a group of users making decisions on behalf of the company. Many companies don't care if you make copies of their old work. However, Nintendo, Atari, Namco, Activision, and many other companies have made it very clear that they want to sell their games in as many ways as possible. If a company has not explicitly stated otherwise, they retain IP rights to their property whether or not they're actively in the business of making money on it.
Copyright is assigned to anyone who creates a work. You can't assume that just because you have copied a work without being caught, the company has lost all use of its copyright. Companies don't just exist to please groups of game fans; they primarily exist to make money, and Abandonware represents a clear threat to companies' revenue.
Sorry to be a downer, but let's be realistic.
It's on the flip lid, according to this photo on Engadget.