I thought they sold them to people, not leased them. Am I mistaken?
yes, you're welcome to use your property as a standalone device (or hipster-compliant paperweight). As soon as you use any of Apple's services, you incur an agreement that says that they have full control of the device.
And next thing you know, North Korea and Pakistan will have nukes! Oh, wait.
FWIW, I don't agree with your premise, but all those who do agree with your premise ought to agree with your conclusion. You'll notice they don't, though. There's more to gain for them by suppressing nuclear power and taxing carbon emissions, so that's how it'll be (for as long as people support their authority, anyhow).
Doesn't the U.K. have a "knife crime" problem. Hence the seemingly ridicules laws about carrying edged weapons?
Non-sequitor. We wiped out all our knife laws in NH a couple years ago. No sudden surge in knife crime. The two are not correlated.
Then again, we have a low crime rate overall, about on par with Switzerland (which has a massively high gun ownership rate). Still, we have a big incarceration problem - not as bad as the US overall, but worse than Mexico, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc.
I disbanded a startup about five years ago that would have filled a niche that's still underserved in the current market (though tablets and smart TV's fill some of it). The issue was the inability to do the things we needed to do because of existing patents on the basic ideas we needed to use and we all agreed that there wasn't a way to do it without licensing all those needed patents, which we couldn't afford.
This was extremely foolish. The correct course of action was to bring the product to market and ignore the patent morass. Use the money gained in the marketplace to fend off the government aggressors.
At the time we were silly and thought that following unjust laws was the proper thing to do.
That said, I hear Schmidt is being considered for Secretary of Commerce. I'm not his biggest fan, but he'd be better than most other people who could be nominated. If there's a chance for significant patent reform, this could be the essential piece.
Seems more like they want attention / drama, which they're getting (from people who operate from fear, mostly). A good 3D printer is more expensive than a Smithy combo mill and the mill can actually make a full working gun. Do the attack tree analysis...
If I was going to spend time making a gun for fun, it would be Jamie's 'pop gun' that shoots soda cans with compressed air from a fire extinguisher tank. That one 'killed' Buster and most people who can change the oil in their car could put one together.
I was just pointing out it's not in the same league as North Korea in the sheer audacity and unbelievabality.
From a game theory perspective, I'm better off if I'm being lied to by somebody who's unbelievable. In many ways, a huge, obviously false, lie is less audacious than a superficially believable one.
Then again, when Stockholm Syndrome is in play, huge bold lies like "Social Security and Medicare will be there for the next generation" or "the War on Drugs is keeping Americans safe" are believed anyway, despite the simple arithmetic disproof.
And they say that North Koreans are brainwashed about their "Dear Leader"...
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states
45 States. What benefit do the residents of Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon gain from expending Federal resources on enforcing particular States' tax policies? None, so this should not qualify as a Federal issue. Remember, retailers don't charge sales tax, they collect it. The taxes on delivered goods are 'owed' by the Residents of the States themselves - what the States have on their hands is a massive tax protest problem (and they're looking for a shortcut instead of dealing with it). If States want to require UPS and FedEx to declare the value of packages they deliver, they can do that themselves.
So, all the small start ups would be stifled right out of the gate. The end result will be a near monopoly and very few start ups bringing new ideas to market.
Works as intended, feature not a bug, marking WONTFIX. (whose lobbyists do you think are paying for the steak, whisky, and Cubans dinners to plan these regulations?)
Correct. It should also be clear to everybody with a rational noodle at this point that Apple intends to seek a monopoly in the smartphone space by means of the State apparatus (chiefly the unworkable patent process). Judging by the way they're behaving in Europe, any imposed regulation due to this status will pushed off and perhaps half-implemented over time (there's more profit in paying the piddling fines and pushing ahead with vigor).
The current system incentivizes this type of behavior. Any ethical restraints about exploiting this system that Apple had in the past have long since left the equation.
Those who see Apple as the scrappy underdog of 1995, working hard to bring UNIX and open standards to the masses, are trading alertness for nostalgia.
Unlike many other approaches, it doesn't require that your program be purely functional either.
WAT?
One of the things that got the llvm project moving along was work on Single Static Assignment compilers. The basic idea is that you take the parse tree and transform it to find segments of the tree that don't depend on other branches of the parse tree. Once you find those, you're free to dispatch the independent branches to be run wherever it's convenient.
And this was like a decade ago. Nobody is saying that to get parallelism you have to write functional code. Did somebody read an article on Erlang in CIO magazine and get confused?
I've heard of those Antarctic maps but not from a reputable source. Have you?
I've seen them. Nobody disputes their authenticity, only what they represent. I've literally read something along the lines of "the indicated land mass can't be Antarctica because it wasn't spotted until 1815". On Wikipedia or something.
They seems to be largely compiled from Chinese maps. We know for a fact that China had massive seafaring prowess early in the last millenium and gave it up. The critics will say the maps could not be Antarctica, because even though they're drawn in Antarctica's position, and the outlines are generally correct, there is this error or that error. I read one such critique that said that it was a map of South America, because just this river and that river were duplicated, and if it was rotated, and this part left out... even though South America is already on the same map. Or that there were legends of the land, so map makers drew it in and just got lucks.
There are believers and non-believers. They seem to be much more vocal than the pragmatists. Personally, I think many of the rivers, lakes, and mountains are good matches, and the continent is where it's supposed to be on the map (within some margins of error for 500-year old maps). I think the burden of disproof is higher when the map says that it's Antarctica and people say, "but that's impossible!".
And where does this magic bread get the sugar required to feed the yeast, praytell?
Sugar can be traded for time.
I made a loaf of bread this weekend and the biga recipe is:
1 3/4 c white whole wheat flour
1/4 t instant yeast
3/4 c water
mix, kneed for 2 minutes, cover and refrigerate for 8-72 hours, warm for 2 hours.
It was sure risen 24 hours later - try it!
The starter recipe uses milk and no yeast or refrigeration. The final loaf incorporates the biga and starter and contains honey, but mostly for flavor and hydroscopic properties.
And it always sounds like LED is a new technology: it's new compared to the tungsten lightbulb...
The good ones will be new technology. True white LED's were only invented in the lab a few years ago - they're not even available to buy yet (UV/phosophor ones are on the market).
It's OK, I sent my friend at $bigLEDcompany a link to the Japanese paper last year.;)
How well that actually correlates to how much we eat is not well-accepted.
There may be some people with a genetic mutation who can rapidly convert dietary cholesterol to blood cholesterol. I've seen some studies that suggest the mutation is in vitamin B processing.
This isn't an issue for the vast majority of people. Soon enough a gene sequence will be more valuable than a physical exam.
Your employer absolutely should be entitled to any IP you produce... *if* they're paying you for 168/hours a week. If it's only 40 hours/week then there has to be room for you to do your thing on the time that belongs to you
There are many benefits to being an "employee", but if you want to own stuff on your own, don't enter into an employee agreement with a company. Be a contractor. There are pros and cons of doing it both ways, but if you want to be an inventor, "employee" is definitely the wrong way to structure your relationship.
Oh, and another example of the failure of this fantasy called 'Intellectual Property'.
I feel sorry for the teachers and other leaf-node employees who trusted unions to negotiate benefits for them and then those unions made deals with politicians for pipe dreams that could never become realized.
If we lived in a society where those politicians and reps could be sued by those teachers for outright fraud, then we wouldn't wind up in these kinds of situations. Government teachers love to talk about checks and balances, but somehow miss out on their retirement depending on an edifice with neither.
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It's inefficient and doesn't work as well as a native browser, but it's the only way to "compete" with Apple.
It's surprising that they can even be profitable doing so. Are they injecting their own ads on the render farm?
I thought they sold them to people, not leased them. Am I mistaken?
yes, you're welcome to use your property as a standalone device (or hipster-compliant paperweight). As soon as you use any of Apple's services, you incur an agreement that says that they have full control of the device.
And next thing you know, North Korea and Pakistan will have nukes! Oh, wait.
FWIW, I don't agree with your premise, but all those who do agree with your premise ought to agree with your conclusion. You'll notice they don't, though. There's more to gain for them by suppressing nuclear power and taxing carbon emissions, so that's how it'll be (for as long as people support their authority, anyhow).
I can spend more on a week's groceries than a typical person is paying for his 5-year+ display at retail.
Just how low do the prices need to be before HP will be happy?
How come the people involved in the criminal activity don't go to jail?
If you start holding corporate actors responsible for their actions, pretty soon the whole corrupt system degrades.
probably has the resources to send someone to install a keylogger on your computer while you are out grocery shopping.
One hidden video camera with motion detection is probably worth more than layered crypto, in this case.
Doesn't the U.K. have a "knife crime" problem. Hence the seemingly ridicules laws about carrying edged weapons?
Non-sequitor. We wiped out all our knife laws in NH a couple years ago. No sudden surge in knife crime. The two are not correlated.
Then again, we have a low crime rate overall, about on par with Switzerland (which has a massively high gun ownership rate). Still, we have a big incarceration problem - not as bad as the US overall, but worse than Mexico, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, etc.
I disbanded a startup about five years ago that would have filled a niche that's still underserved in the current market (though tablets and smart TV's fill some of it). The issue was the inability to do the things we needed to do because of existing patents on the basic ideas we needed to use and we all agreed that there wasn't a way to do it without licensing all those needed patents, which we couldn't afford.
This was extremely foolish. The correct course of action was to bring the product to market and ignore the patent morass. Use the money gained in the marketplace to fend off the government aggressors.
At the time we were silly and thought that following unjust laws was the proper thing to do.
That said, I hear Schmidt is being considered for Secretary of Commerce. I'm not his biggest fan, but he'd be better than most other people who could be nominated. If there's a chance for significant patent reform, this could be the essential piece.
supermicro would disagree with you
Not to diss Supermicro, they make nice boxes, but I've had hotswap 1U gear from other manufacturers for over a decade.
Methinksts the GP just doesn't know the market.
Another Linux kernel release candidate. OMG!
I think the story's more about our benevolent dictator than the release itself.
If these guys want to be taken seriously
Seems more like they want attention / drama, which they're getting (from people who operate from fear, mostly). A good 3D printer is more expensive than a Smithy combo mill and the mill can actually make a full working gun. Do the attack tree analysis...
If I was going to spend time making a gun for fun, it would be Jamie's 'pop gun' that shoots soda cans with compressed air from a fire extinguisher tank. That one 'killed' Buster and most people who can change the oil in their car could put one together.
I was just pointing out it's not in the same league as North Korea in the sheer audacity and unbelievabality.
From a game theory perspective, I'm better off if I'm being lied to by somebody who's unbelievable. In many ways, a huge, obviously false, lie is less audacious than a superficially believable one.
Then again, when Stockholm Syndrome is in play, huge bold lies like "Social Security and Medicare will be there for the next generation" or "the War on Drugs is keeping Americans safe" are believed anyway, despite the simple arithmetic disproof.
And they say that North Koreans are brainwashed about their "Dear Leader"...
By forcing web sites to collect sales tax for all 50 states
45 States. What benefit do the residents of Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon gain from expending Federal resources on enforcing particular States' tax policies? None, so this should not qualify as a Federal issue. Remember, retailers don't charge sales tax, they collect it. The taxes on delivered goods are 'owed' by the Residents of the States themselves - what the States have on their hands is a massive tax protest problem (and they're looking for a shortcut instead of dealing with it). If States want to require UPS and FedEx to declare the value of packages they deliver, they can do that themselves.
So, all the small start ups would be stifled right out of the gate. The end result will be a near monopoly and very few start ups bringing new ideas to market.
Works as intended, feature not a bug, marking WONTFIX. (whose lobbyists do you think are paying for the steak, whisky, and Cubans dinners to plan these regulations?)
Correct. It should also be clear to everybody with a rational noodle at this point that Apple intends to seek a monopoly in the smartphone space by means of the State apparatus (chiefly the unworkable patent process). Judging by the way they're behaving in Europe, any imposed regulation due to this status will pushed off and perhaps half-implemented over time (there's more profit in paying the piddling fines and pushing ahead with vigor).
The current system incentivizes this type of behavior. Any ethical restraints about exploiting this system that Apple had in the past have long since left the equation.
Those who see Apple as the scrappy underdog of 1995, working hard to bring UNIX and open standards to the masses, are trading alertness for nostalgia.
What happened to us engineers?
"Professional Management"
Also, the VC's know that firing the founder is the best way to riches. See: Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Amazon, WalMart, etc.
WAT?
One of the things that got the llvm project moving along was work on Single Static Assignment compilers. The basic idea is that you take the parse tree and transform it to find segments of the tree that don't depend on other branches of the parse tree. Once you find those, you're free to dispatch the independent branches to be run wherever it's convenient.
And this was like a decade ago. Nobody is saying that to get parallelism you have to write functional code. Did somebody read an article on Erlang in CIO magazine and get confused?
I've heard of those Antarctic maps but not from a reputable source. Have you?
I've seen them. Nobody disputes their authenticity, only what they represent. I've literally read something along the lines of "the indicated land mass can't be Antarctica because it wasn't spotted until 1815". On Wikipedia or something.
They seems to be largely compiled from Chinese maps. We know for a fact that China had massive seafaring prowess early in the last millenium and gave it up. The critics will say the maps could not be Antarctica, because even though they're drawn in Antarctica's position, and the outlines are generally correct, there is this error or that error. I read one such critique that said that it was a map of South America, because just this river and that river were duplicated, and if it was rotated, and this part left out ... even though South America is already on the same map. Or that there were legends of the land, so map makers drew it in and just got lucks.
There are believers and non-believers. They seem to be much more vocal than the pragmatists. Personally, I think many of the rivers, lakes, and mountains are good matches, and the continent is where it's supposed to be on the map (within some margins of error for 500-year old maps). I think the burden of disproof is higher when the map says that it's Antarctica and people say, "but that's impossible!".
And where does this magic bread get the sugar required to feed the yeast, praytell?
Sugar can be traded for time.
I made a loaf of bread this weekend and the biga recipe is:
It was sure risen 24 hours later - try it!
The starter recipe uses milk and no yeast or refrigeration. The final loaf incorporates the biga and starter and contains honey, but mostly for flavor and hydroscopic properties.
And it always sounds like LED is a new technology: it's new compared to the tungsten lightbulb...
The good ones will be new technology. True white LED's were only invented in the lab a few years ago - they're not even available to buy yet (UV/phosophor ones are on the market).
It's OK, I sent my friend at $bigLEDcompany a link to the Japanese paper last year. ;)
How well that actually correlates to how much we eat is not well-accepted.
There may be some people with a genetic mutation who can rapidly convert dietary cholesterol to blood cholesterol. I've seen some studies that suggest the mutation is in vitamin B processing.
This isn't an issue for the vast majority of people. Soon enough a gene sequence will be more valuable than a physical exam.
Your employer absolutely should be entitled to any IP you produce ... *if* they're paying you for 168/hours a week. If it's only 40 hours/week then there has to be room for you to do your thing on the time that belongs to you
There are many benefits to being an "employee", but if you want to own stuff on your own, don't enter into an employee agreement with a company. Be a contractor. There are pros and cons of doing it both ways, but if you want to be an inventor, "employee" is definitely the wrong way to structure your relationship.
Oh, and another example of the failure of this fantasy called 'Intellectual Property'.
Friends don't let friends not upload their source.
Does it matter much if you put the slowdown in hardware or software? You're still going to have to deal with context switching.
Apparently so - I hear from Xen and VMWare folks that VPro-enabled resource sharing is much faster than doing it in the hypervisor.
I feel sorry for the teachers and other leaf-node employees who trusted unions to negotiate benefits for them and then those unions made deals with politicians for pipe dreams that could never become realized.
If we lived in a society where those politicians and reps could be sued by those teachers for outright fraud, then we wouldn't wind up in these kinds of situations. Government teachers love to talk about checks and balances, but somehow miss out on their retirement depending on an edifice with neither.
1. Stop using cdparanoia - it isn't very good, at all. It tests poorly, we're sad to say. The software you actually want to use is Exact Audio Copy.
Hey, marketing your product on Slashdot is fine, but posting your ad as AC is poor form.