18 isn't the age of consent in the US; it's the age of legal majority. Minors can consent to sex (the exact age depends on the state) even though they aren't considered legally adults, and thus are ineligible for porn.
IANAL, but my interpretation of Hiibel is that the police can only demand ID if they have reasonable suspicion that you have commited a crime. Otherwise, as Justice Kennedy points out in your quote, they're free to ask for identification (or anything else) but you have no obligation to comply. A random person walking down the street cannot be arrested for not providing ID. Which makes sense, because we aren't required to carry ID - you can always tell the officer you don't have any, and they have no right to search you for ID without a warrent.
Gates doesn't "throw money" at the problem. The Gates Foundation has a lot of smart people who analyze how exactly to spend their money so that it does the most good for the most people. And they've accomplished far more than Bono or Geldof (especially Geldof, who I don't believe has done anything other than organize a couple pointless rock concerts to get his name back in the news). I'm not saying Bono isn't passionate about his cause, but being a media whore only gets you so far.
Say I owe John a bunch of money. And say I could kill him and get away with it. Since it would be in my financial interest to do so, I assume you wouldn't fault me for murdering John?
The Yonah processors are not Apple-exclusive; several PC laptops using them have already been announced.
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My parents got me one of those and I hated it. It took maybe a week for me to learn how each piece moved (and the set wasn't very helpful; the instructions on the pieces were hard to decipher). After I learned the basics, the extra instructions were mostly useless to me, and I thought the pieces looked clunky, ugly and juvenile. I'd have been much happier with a nice, professional-looking, standard chess set.
What modern browser doesn't automatically direct you to "http://www" when supplied with only a domain name, thereby NOT requiring users to type the debated prefix?
No one has any plans for FW800. High-performance external storage is moving to eSATA (which will be available as an expansion card for the MacBook), DV cameras only require FW400, and everything else uses USB. FW800 has no market.
And the iMac internals have barely changed since the last round (G5 with iSight).
Yes, and you base your decision on your perception of what the best product to buy would be. You may think that that perception always comes from pure facts, but I'll bet anything that at some point in your life, you have made a choice based on marketing. Whether or not you realize it, marketing affects the way you perceive the products marketed.
You are not that special. Marketing exists because people respond to it. You may think you're less susceptible than the average person, and that's probably true, but you're still human.
It specifies "treaties made under the Authority of the United States". IANAL, but I don't believe the United States government has any authority except that granted by the Constitution.
Apple makes its profit on hardware. Their primary concern is selling hardware. With the possible exception of the pro apps, which presumably make some profit on their own, the software they produce exists primarily to help them sell their hardware.
If you can't understand at least this much, I submit that you haven't the proper attitude or aesthetic taste to understand anything else about Apple, its customers, or its market.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Some tasks see no speed improvement at all, while others like compiling large projects, 3D rendering, encoding multiple media files, etc. parallelize almost perfectly.
But the real improvement of dual processors is a huge increase in responsiveness. The machine never locks up from processor usage. You can be launching programs, scanning for viruses, compressing video, whatever in the background and your foreground web browsing or word processing doesn't slow down at all. Even if a rogue process goes into an infinite loop, it only locks up one processor and the system is still responsive. From that point of view, a dual proc can be many times "faster" than a single proc, if faster is defined in terms of how often my work is interrupted by the computer's inability to keep up. I've used dual-proc 500Mhz systems that felt faster running modern apps than a brand new 3.4Ghz P4, because some part of the machine is always listening for user input.
In the same way as nobody being harmed when someone takes GPL code and incorporates it within a closed source product?
No. In that case, the original author is harmed by being deprived of revenue and the public is harmed by being suckered into paying money for something they could have gotten for free.
To answer your broader point, content creators should have the right to limited control over their creations for a limited period of time - long enough to let them profit and encourage new creations, but not long enough to allow them to live off their past works while contributing nothing new. That's how copyright is defined in the Constitution, and I think most people agree with the basic premise. At the same time, it's just common sense that a harmless action shouldn't be forbidden. kesuki's actions are an example of where our societal concept of copyright comes into conflict with our common sense notion of harm. I'm not sure if or how they can be reconciled legally. But, on an individual decision-making level, I would choose the action that improves my life while harming no one else.
Indeed, let's not. It was you, not me, who brought up this strawman. I didn't even mention either word.
Well, that was the natural result of what you were saying. You were implying that copyrighted material is something that can be "taken", which in this case has the same connotations as "stolen". I'm just pointing out that no one is harmed, even indirectly.
If the game companies will be better off, Kesuki can presumably approach them, point this out, and they'll give him free games.
Incidentally, this is basically what MS does with Office, Visual Studio, etc. They basically hand them out free to students and developer conference attendees. Game companies don't do this, because it's a different type of market and it's unlikely they'd reap much benefit. But at the same time, it's pretty obvious that they lose nothing if kesuki pirates a game.
That would by funny if it were true, but of course it's not. Dell computers don't have the design aesthetics of Macs, and they don't have OSX/iLife. I would snap up an Intel Mac over a similarly specced and priced Dell any day.
If, in fact, you must shut down your OS to use those buttons, which I assume you do, then that feature is built on a weakness, and that weakness is Window's lack of stability over long periods of time.
Windows 2000 and later almost never crash unless there's a hardware problem. They're at least as stable as OSX, so that's not a good argument.
On the other hand, most PC laptops do power management worse than Apple, so users are probably more in the habit of shutting them down.
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18 isn't the age of consent in the US; it's the age of legal majority. Minors can consent to sex (the exact age depends on the state) even though they aren't considered legally adults, and thus are ineligible for porn.
IANAL, but my interpretation of Hiibel is that the police can only demand ID if they have reasonable suspicion that you have commited a crime. Otherwise, as Justice Kennedy points out in your quote, they're free to ask for identification (or anything else) but you have no obligation to comply. A random person walking down the street cannot be arrested for not providing ID. Which makes sense, because we aren't required to carry ID - you can always tell the officer you don't have any, and they have no right to search you for ID without a warrent.
You don't need ID to ride in a passenger car. Nor to walk, ride a bike, or drive a motor vehicle off of public roads.
Oh, sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Quite a bit of Bill Gates' money is MS stock. Buffett's money is presumably invested in Berkshire-Hathaway.
Quite a bit of it is in Microsoft stock.
Gates doesn't "throw money" at the problem. The Gates Foundation has a lot of smart people who analyze how exactly to spend their money so that it does the most good for the most people. And they've accomplished far more than Bono or Geldof (especially Geldof, who I don't believe has done anything other than organize a couple pointless rock concerts to get his name back in the news). I'm not saying Bono isn't passionate about his cause, but being a media whore only gets you so far.
I was under the impression that DV applications only required FW400, so an addon FW800 card wouldn't really be relevent.
Say I owe John a bunch of money. And say I could kill him and get away with it. Since it would be in my financial interest to do so, I assume you wouldn't fault me for murdering John?
The Yonah processors are not Apple-exclusive; several PC laptops using them have already been announced.
Each to his own, I guess.
Counterpoint: if something gets duped, it means the editor didn't notice it the first time, so it can't be too important.
IE7, apparently.
And the iMac internals have barely changed since the last round (G5 with iSight).
You are not that special. Marketing exists because people respond to it. You may think you're less susceptible than the average person, and that's probably true, but you're still human.
It specifies "treaties made under the Authority of the United States". IANAL, but I don't believe the United States government has any authority except that granted by the Constitution.
Don't know about in the Netherlands, but no treaty can supercede the US Constitution.
That would be a better argument if the ROKR weren't expensive, a crappy phone, and a crappy music player.
If you can't understand at least this much, I submit that you haven't the proper attitude or aesthetic taste to understand anything else about Apple, its customers, or its market.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Some tasks see no speed improvement at all, while others like compiling large projects, 3D rendering, encoding multiple media files, etc. parallelize almost perfectly.
But the real improvement of dual processors is a huge increase in responsiveness. The machine never locks up from processor usage. You can be launching programs, scanning for viruses, compressing video, whatever in the background and your foreground web browsing or word processing doesn't slow down at all. Even if a rogue process goes into an infinite loop, it only locks up one processor and the system is still responsive. From that point of view, a dual proc can be many times "faster" than a single proc, if faster is defined in terms of how often my work is interrupted by the computer's inability to keep up. I've used dual-proc 500Mhz systems that felt faster running modern apps than a brand new 3.4Ghz P4, because some part of the machine is always listening for user input.
Apple bashed x86 because it was CISC. But since it no longer is, Apple's complaints no longer apply, so it's not hypocritical of Apple to use x86.
Or even better, illicit pornography.
No. In that case, the original author is harmed by being deprived of revenue and the public is harmed by being suckered into paying money for something they could have gotten for free.
To answer your broader point, content creators should have the right to limited control over their creations for a limited period of time - long enough to let them profit and encourage new creations, but not long enough to allow them to live off their past works while contributing nothing new. That's how copyright is defined in the Constitution, and I think most people agree with the basic premise. At the same time, it's just common sense that a harmless action shouldn't be forbidden. kesuki's actions are an example of where our societal concept of copyright comes into conflict with our common sense notion of harm. I'm not sure if or how they can be reconciled legally. But, on an individual decision-making level, I would choose the action that improves my life while harming no one else.
Well, that was the natural result of what you were saying. You were implying that copyrighted material is something that can be "taken", which in this case has the same connotations as "stolen". I'm just pointing out that no one is harmed, even indirectly.
If the game companies will be better off, Kesuki can presumably approach them, point this out, and they'll give him free games.
Incidentally, this is basically what MS does with Office, Visual Studio, etc. They basically hand them out free to students and developer conference attendees. Game companies don't do this, because it's a different type of market and it's unlikely they'd reap much benefit. But at the same time, it's pretty obvious that they lose nothing if kesuki pirates a game.
That would by funny if it were true, but of course it's not. Dell computers don't have the design aesthetics of Macs, and they don't have OSX/iLife. I would snap up an Intel Mac over a similarly specced and priced Dell any day.
Windows 2000 and later almost never crash unless there's a hardware problem. They're at least as stable as OSX, so that's not a good argument.
On the other hand, most PC laptops do power management worse than Apple, so users are probably more in the habit of shutting them down.