>but the moment you LIE that company can sue you into extinction.
In a libel case four things must be proved, not just whether or not something was a lie -
1) The statement made was false. 2) The statement made was fact, not opinion. 3) The statement was reputation damaging. 4) Some degree of fault on the part of the plaintiff. (Strict liability in some cases, but more often negligence, or in most cases actual malice)
Statements such as "This is a very unethical company." is opinion, and would probably not meet the qualifications for libel. Definitely wasting their time on that one unless that particular poster of the group being sued made more solid statements.
The other claims of people being paid off are more like supposed facts. However, showing that these posters did any real damage to the company, well. Probably not going to happen. Oh, they can sue, but they probably won't win. So indeed you can go about lying, but if the statement did no damage (whether nobody believed it, or it was too insignificant to do anything)... well, your libel case is toast. The article cites another similar case where a company blamed a stock price drop on a poster, but was awarded nothing.
Of course, if the company is found to be corrupt or whatever the posters are claiming, their case is screwed. Heh.
Even then... in Ollman v. Evans, one thing about determining fact vs. opinion is "What is the broader social context in which the statement appears?" These message boards could be determined as a place for sharing opinions. Now their are 3 other criteria they look at, and the statements about paying people off would seem to be fact, but this might... might... cause it to still be considered opinion. Long shot really, but message boards are a long way from the front page of the New York Times...
I don't understand why the company is bothering to pursue this one.
Wow, too bad that does not actually work. QuickTime will not allow you to export files with Apple's audio drm. That really shouldn't come as a surprise.
However, oddly enough iMovie will work (it does have an audio-only export) and conveniently lets you search through your iTunes collection to find that "protected" file.
I use the Brain Cell and Brain Bag, a small solid laptop case and high end backpack by Tom Bihn.
Extremely durable, and the absolute best combination I've seen for students. The site has a wide variety of different bags in many different styles though. Has a guide for which size case will fit which laptop.
Wasn't one of the "strengths" Microsoft was touting with the original Xbox was that because it uses standard PC parts it would be easier to develop and port games?
Now it looks as if the parts are going to be as "standard" as WMA.
So, what will be the advantage the Xbox has now? I doubt there will be that much of a technology gap between any of the next-gen systems. It puts it much closer to the other consoles, and among those, sheer numbers usually wins out - these days, namely, Sony. Only if the custom parts become much cheaper, and the Xbox stops creating losses for MS, would this be a good step for them.
If anything is going to tip the scales away from Sony in the console wars, I doubt it is going to happen this round.
Sorry about the dead links, the dynamic code wasn't as obvious to me as usual...
Anyhow if you go to USPTO and select a search collection of "trademarks" - and do a basic search for Rendezvous...
Apple's will be the 5th one down, Tibico's the 9th (Be amazed by how many people have registered or tried to register Rendezvous for all sorts of things - 137 records contain Rendezvous! and this has less records than a lot of stuff, probably because its too hard for most consumers to spell...)
However, neither Apple's nor Tibico's has a registration number.
I'm somewhat amused that Apple hasn't taken iChat.. (but someone else has!)
Tibco has owned the name since 1994. It seems that Apple doesn't want to pay what Tibco wants."
Actually, that should read Tibico claims to have been using the name since 1994. Not owns. It is not a registered trademark, they merely applied for it. The process is not complete. In fact, they only filed for it May 21, 2003.
http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/ani_tr_4_720_dl.mov I dunno about the original poster, but I prefer 720 pixels wide when i can get it.
Film is scanned more like at 2048 pixels wide, making the data even larger...
Nobody would capture at 1024x768, monitor resolutions mean nothing to Film and TV guys. It would either be at 720x534 (Sq. Pixels) or 720x480(standard DV), 1920x1080(HD) or some enormous 2048xsomething for film.
I would think it could easily be done using a lot of paralellism... many CCD chips in perfect sync writing to different tapes, to be recombined later with some computer assistance. You could probably get somewhere in the order of 250fps with a single CCD chip, so those larger ones... well its up to your imagination there. (not to mention your should get 3 CCD's per for better color!)... Hmm I'm starting to see why this isnt done very much digitally.
Just saying, your little calculation of resolution and GBps dont mean much when dealing with the real thing, and most likely writing to some for of digital tape or tapes...
I've been told the Raedeon chip on the iBook itself is not a stock, off the shelf chip - the spanning is actually disabled on a hardware level, on the chip itself (maybe they're cheaper/smaller this way?)
I wouldn't believe anyone that say theyve gotten that working on the iBook 'till I see the code to do it.
Anyone who is into the previews and betas of MacOS X (currently 10.2 beta) can dispute all the slashdotters who have thus far mentioned the close-mindedness and stubborness of AOL to help unite. Now, yes, iTools/mac.com is not currently an IM service - but it will be with the next release. Heck, I can even log into AIM right now with my mac.com account. Sure it may not be uniting the major services, but it is a sign that AOL is starting to allow others in on theirs.
Totals Star Wars: AOTC - $202,505,000 in 2 weeks Spider Man - $334,300,000 in 4 weeks
Last Weekend Star Wars: AOTC - $61,200,000 Spider Man - $36,500,000
Spider Man has more money for now. Lets see how long that lasts? Personally, I think the Star Wars fans (myself included) are more obsessive and will continue to see AOTC for far longer than Spider Man will be on any screens at all.
At this point, I would question anyone that says Spider Man is a clear leader. Give it time - I just think AOTC will hold longer.
This product caught my eye at Macworld Expo SF in January (are you guys a little far behind at Slashdot submitting land?) Mostly it just scared me that they let an XP machine in Macworld Expo (the natives hate it) - but I thought it was good that if Apple wasn't gonna do it, someone would. That's what third party stuff is for, right?
Sheesh I thought us mac users were supposed to be the cult.
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Alt-tab - switches between running applications
Alt-tilde - switches between open windows in an app
Theres no magic different keystroke to switch windows whether it be Terminal or IE. Alt-tilde always works.
GUI supporters would argue that switching apps in the dock does not take longer - but it is hard to prove.
As far as remote administration - Timbuktu. Wonderful little program, though I doubt its been ported to your precious FreeBSD. I know there's at least a Windows and Mac client for it though...
Timbuktu + That little GUI tool for making users in System Preferences has to take around a minute, though you could continue your 1/2 hr method using ssh or the perl scripts... i suggest Timbuktu.
The Mac does indeed have some nice web browsers (you didn't mention that anti-aliasing Omniweb), and Office apps (well, Office, I guess is fine), but it also has some very nice content creation apps. Be it, say Photoshop 7, GoLive 6, Final Cut Pro 3, or even little things like iDVD or iMovie - there's something there for a lot of creative people or a lot of people that like to be creative once in a while.
For a person who complains so much about time wasted while attempting things the hard way - you sure don't seem to mind the learning time you spent for LaTeX and Awk/perl.
With less of a learning curve - the mac apps are easier to pick up and use, as well as attempt more advanced things - quicker.
The overlapping windows is just one of those things that *just plain works* in a "desktop" paradigm. If a familiar enough environment is created, the the user can come up with uses that the programmers probably never would have thought of. Someone earlier was mentioning overlapping logs to compare very specific bits of data. This can come more and more into play when dealing with multiple applications. Too lazy to pick out a color in some html code that you liked? Want to use it in Photoshop? Put the PS window over the Web Broswer and eyeball it. This, as I understand, is seen more in the Mac environment than in Windows (I dont use the Win too often, dont flame me if I get this wrong here...) But doesnt Windows (or the programmers for that matter;-) put like a huge grey background behind all the Photoshop windows? And also I'm pretty sure all such windows have several pixel borders on them... But of course some of this is invalid since there isnt a released version of PS for OSX, but still. Also, the ability to organize windows independently of what application they belong too (unlike OS9)...
A lot of people may not like the OSX interface for some of its fancier bits (transparencies and such, which are becoming just as prevalent with XP and such) or some of its new strange functions (the dock) but the whole point of this is: create a really, really familiar metaphor and make sure to take it all the way - include all the little details. If you're going to pretend to have a "desk-top" things typically shouldn't have big borders or controls around them (not to mention coloring, thank God Apple included graphite in OSX...), or be limited in the order of the stacking. The more inconsistencies from the supposed metaphor that can be eliminated, the better. When something is consistent, if not with the entire metaphor, at least with itself... maybe just maybe the user will come up with uses unknown to you (especially between applications.)
Ok, youre all now cleared to pick away at any holes, inconsistencies or inaccuracies in my comment.;-)
"He writes on his web site 'I went to Apple to test cocoa for Mac OS X 10.1, and found a drag and drop problem with NSPopUpButtonCell. They didn't even pay me for my effort, yet they try to shut down my project. Isn't that ironic?'"
Translation:
Gee Golly, I submitted a bug report once, and I can't understand why I'm not legally allowed to pirate their software. The interface designs arn't public domain and I'm so confused why theyre not letting me rip it off! They even sent lawyers after me, no Linux open-source project would do that!
The creator of DeCSS or any other individual could claim they are trying to enter the market of DVD-playing/decoding software and the big-name companies are trying to prevent that, "raising the bar" of the entry level into that field.
That is one of the same claims that proved Microsoft as a monopoly, and using monopoly power like that is a felony.
The big-company guys would be criminals and anybody could make their own DeCSS based DVD player.
What, big deal, they've overclocked their chips again..18 micron processes is not anything unheard of. It infact is quite large. I am running here a G3 based on a.15 micron process and G4's exist, based on a.10 micron process. Both copper. This is not new technology, not a big deal. Anyways I don't see them being availible for quite a while...
I guess they can claim they have the astes frequency, for whatever that is worth. They act as if the proocesser will do all these great things for you, like speech recognition (had that since '90) and 3d performance (if you have geforce256, the processor is doing $hit)... They seem to be forgetting that you need software to do that kind of stuff anyways. Maybe that's the probelm with an "open" architecture, they are not all working together to plan this.
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>but the moment you LIE that company can sue you into extinction.
In a libel case four things must be proved, not just whether or not something was a lie -
1) The statement made was false.
2) The statement made was fact, not opinion.
3) The statement was reputation damaging.
4) Some degree of fault on the part of the plaintiff. (Strict liability in some cases, but more often negligence, or in most cases actual malice)
Statements such as "This is a very unethical company." is opinion, and would probably not meet the qualifications for libel. Definitely wasting their time on that one unless that particular poster of the group being sued made more solid statements.
The other claims of people being paid off are more like supposed facts. However, showing that these posters did any real damage to the company, well. Probably not going to happen. Oh, they can sue, but they probably won't win. So indeed you can go about lying, but if the statement did no damage (whether nobody believed it, or it was too insignificant to do anything)... well, your libel case is toast. The article cites another similar case where a company blamed a stock price drop on a poster, but was awarded nothing.
Of course, if the company is found to be corrupt or whatever the posters are claiming, their case is screwed. Heh.
Even then... in Ollman v. Evans, one thing about determining fact vs. opinion is "What is the broader social context in which the statement appears?" These message boards could be determined as a place for sharing opinions. Now their are 3 other criteria they look at, and the statements about paying people off would seem to be fact, but this might... might... cause it to still be considered opinion. Long shot really, but message boards are a long way from the front page of the New York Times...
I don't understand why the company is bothering to pursue this one.
Wow, too bad that does not actually work. QuickTime will not allow you to export files with Apple's audio drm. That really shouldn't come as a surprise.
However, oddly enough iMovie will work (it does have an audio-only export) and conveniently lets you search through your iTunes collection to find that "protected" file.
I use the Brain Cell and Brain Bag, a small solid laptop case and high end backpack by Tom Bihn.
Extremely durable, and the absolute best combination I've seen for students. The site has a wide variety of different bags in many different styles though. Has a guide for which size case will fit which laptop.
Wasn't one of the "strengths" Microsoft was touting with the original Xbox was that because it uses standard PC parts it would be easier to develop and port games?
Now it looks as if the parts are going to be as "standard" as WMA.
So, what will be the advantage the Xbox has now? I doubt there will be that much of a technology gap between any of the next-gen systems. It puts it much closer to the other consoles, and among those, sheer numbers usually wins out - these days, namely, Sony. Only if the custom parts become much cheaper, and the Xbox stops creating losses for MS, would this be a good step for them.
If anything is going to tip the scales away from Sony in the console wars, I doubt it is going to happen this round.
Sorry about the dead links, the dynamic code wasn't as obvious to me as usual...
Anyhow if you go to USPTO and select a search collection of "trademarks" - and do a basic search for Rendezvous...
Apple's will be the 5th one down, Tibico's the 9th (Be amazed by how many people have registered or tried to register Rendezvous for all sorts of things - 137 records contain Rendezvous! and this has less records than a lot of stuff, probably because its too hard for most consumers to spell...)
However, neither Apple's nor Tibico's has a registration number.
I'm somewhat amused that Apple hasn't taken iChat.. (but someone else has!)
Tibco has owned the name since 1994. It seems that Apple doesn't want to pay what Tibco wants."
Actually, that should read Tibico claims to have been using the name since 1994. Not owns. It is not a registered trademark, they merely applied for it. The process is not complete. In fact, they only filed for it May 21, 2003.
Tibico's Rendezvous
Apple filed for the name Rendezvous on May 6, 2002.
Apple's Rendezvous
Do I think this will really be a problem for Apple? No more than OS-9 and Mac OS 9.... at least those were both Operating Systems, in some sense.
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http://progressive1.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/ progressive/thematrix/us/med/ani_tr_4_720_dl.mov
I dunno about the original poster, but I prefer 720 pixels wide when i can get it.
This would only give you pseudo immortality. Consider:
You have the original and make a copy of it, then place the copy into the new body. For a brief period there are now two copies of you.
Here's the catch, the original still dies. Meaning you still die, but a backup lives on
You know this is the plot of a freakin' Arnold Swartzenegger movie, right?
The Sixth Day. It wasn't even that good.
Film is scanned more like at 2048 pixels wide, making the data even larger...
Nobody would capture at 1024x768, monitor resolutions mean nothing to Film and TV guys. It would either be at 720x534 (Sq. Pixels) or 720x480(standard DV), 1920x1080(HD) or some enormous 2048xsomething for film.
I would think it could easily be done using a lot of paralellism... many CCD chips in perfect sync writing to different tapes, to be recombined later with some computer assistance. You could probably get somewhere in the order of 250fps with a single CCD chip, so those larger ones... well its up to your imagination there. (not to mention your should get 3 CCD's per for better color!)... Hmm I'm starting to see why this isnt done very much digitally.
Just saying, your little calculation of resolution and GBps dont mean much when dealing with the real thing, and most likely writing to some for of digital tape or tapes...
I've been told the Raedeon chip on the iBook itself is not a stock, off the shelf chip - the spanning is actually disabled on a hardware level, on the chip itself (maybe they're cheaper/smaller this way?)
I wouldn't believe anyone that say theyve gotten that working on the iBook 'till I see the code to do it.
IBM's revenue was 85 Billion Last year, not 18. (http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/index.html)
I doubt 25% of that was consulting. Unless they really overcharge as much as I thought...
And as far as the name "Monday," I think this purchase once again proves... IBM + Any Company = IBM
The greatest irony of this study is that (I'm pretty sure) Steve Jobs dropped out of college, and only makes $1 per year off Apple...
I guess he'd get tagged as an outlier.
Anyone who is into the previews and betas of MacOS X (currently 10.2 beta) can dispute all the slashdotters who have thus far mentioned the close-mindedness and stubborness of AOL to help unite. Now, yes, iTools/mac.com is not currently an IM service - but it will be with the next release. Heck, I can even log into AIM right now with my mac.com account. Sure it may not be uniting the major services, but it is a sign that AOL is starting to allow others in on theirs.
http://movies.go.com/boxoffice/index.html
Totals
Star Wars: AOTC - $202,505,000 in 2 weeks
Spider Man - $334,300,000 in 4 weeks
Last Weekend
Star Wars: AOTC - $61,200,000
Spider Man - $36,500,000
Spider Man has more money for now. Lets see how long that lasts? Personally, I think the Star Wars fans (myself included) are more obsessive and will continue to see AOTC for far longer than Spider Man will be on any screens at all.
At this point, I would question anyone that says Spider Man is a clear leader. Give it time - I just think AOTC will hold longer.
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I guess I can watch Romeo & Juliet, and not worry about the legality of it anymore (they're like what, 14?).
The law was too broad, and its a great decision. Congress may not have much sense anymore, but at least the supreme court seems to.
This product caught my eye at Macworld Expo SF in January (are you guys a little far behind at Slashdot submitting land?) Mostly it just scared me that they let an XP machine in Macworld Expo (the natives hate it) - but I thought it was good that if Apple wasn't gonna do it, someone would. That's what third party stuff is for, right?
Pudge. Get real. They aint gonna sue.
And pray for mercy on his soul.
Sheesh I thought us mac users were supposed to be the cult.
Alt-tab - switches between running applications
Alt-tilde - switches between open windows in an app
Theres no magic different keystroke to switch windows whether it be Terminal or IE. Alt-tilde always works.
GUI supporters would argue that switching apps in the dock does not take longer - but it is hard to prove.
As far as remote administration - Timbuktu. Wonderful little program, though I doubt its been ported to your precious FreeBSD. I know there's at least a Windows and Mac client for it though...
Timbuktu + That little GUI tool for making users in System Preferences has to take around a minute, though you could continue your 1/2 hr method using ssh or the perl scripts... i suggest Timbuktu.
The Mac does indeed have some nice web browsers (you didn't mention that anti-aliasing Omniweb), and Office apps (well, Office, I guess is fine), but it also has some very nice content creation apps. Be it, say Photoshop 7, GoLive 6, Final Cut Pro 3, or even little things like iDVD or iMovie - there's something there for a lot of creative people or a lot of people that like to be creative once in a while.
For a person who complains so much about time wasted while attempting things the hard way - you sure don't seem to mind the learning time you spent for LaTeX and Awk/perl.
With less of a learning curve - the mac apps are easier to pick up and use, as well as attempt more advanced things - quicker.
The overlapping windows is just one of those things that *just plain works* in a "desktop" paradigm. If a familiar enough environment is created, the the user can come up with uses that the programmers probably never would have thought of. Someone earlier was mentioning overlapping logs to compare very specific bits of data. This can come more and more into play when dealing with multiple applications. Too lazy to pick out a color in some html code that you liked? Want to use it in Photoshop? Put the PS window over the Web Broswer and eyeball it. This, as I understand, is seen more in the Mac environment than in Windows (I dont use the Win too often, dont flame me if I get this wrong here...) But doesnt Windows (or the programmers for that matter ;-) put like a huge grey background behind all the Photoshop windows? And also I'm pretty sure all such windows have several pixel borders on them... But of course some of this is invalid since there isnt a released version of PS for OSX, but still. Also, the ability to organize windows independently of what application they belong too (unlike OS9)...
;-)
A lot of people may not like the OSX interface for some of its fancier bits (transparencies and such, which are becoming just as prevalent with XP and such) or some of its new strange functions (the dock) but the whole point of this is: create a really, really familiar metaphor and make sure to take it all the way - include all the little details. If you're going to pretend to have a "desk-top" things typically shouldn't have big borders or controls around them (not to mention coloring, thank God Apple included graphite in OSX...), or be limited in the order of the stacking. The more inconsistencies from the supposed metaphor that can be eliminated, the better. When something is consistent, if not with the entire metaphor, at least with itself... maybe just maybe the user will come up with uses unknown to you (especially between applications.)
Ok, youre all now cleared to pick away at any holes, inconsistencies or inaccuracies in my comment.
"He writes on his web site 'I went to Apple to test cocoa for Mac OS X 10.1, and found a drag and drop problem with NSPopUpButtonCell. They didn't even pay me for my effort, yet they try to shut down my project. Isn't that ironic?'"
Translation:
Gee Golly, I submitted a bug report once, and I can't understand why I'm not legally allowed to pirate their software. The interface designs arn't public domain and I'm so confused why theyre not letting me rip it off! They even sent lawyers after me, no Linux open-source project would do that!
C'mon guys.
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The creator of DeCSS or any other individual could claim they are trying to enter the market of DVD-playing/decoding software and the big-name companies are trying to prevent that, "raising the bar" of the entry level into that field.
That is one of the same claims that proved Microsoft as a monopoly, and using monopoly power like that is a felony.
The big-company guys would be criminals and anybody could make their own DeCSS based DVD player.
How bout it? Would it work?
Cool, neat projects coming out.
What, big deal, they've overclocked their chips again. .18 micron processes is not anything unheard of. It infact is quite large. I am running here a G3 based on a .15 micron process and G4's exist, based on a .10 micron process. Both copper. This is not new technology, not a big deal. Anyways I don't see them being availible for quite a while...
I guess they can claim they have the astes frequency, for whatever that is worth. They act as if the proocesser will do all these great things for you, like speech recognition (had that since '90) and 3d performance (if you have geforce256, the processor is doing $hit)... They seem to be forgetting that you need software to do that kind of stuff anyways. Maybe that's the probelm with an "open" architecture, they are not all working together to plan this.