Look all, just because a newspapers picks up this story doesn't make it real. Heck, CNN was covering the "Evil Bert/Bin Laden" story, and this paper isn't even in the same league.
How often can you be sure that news sources REALLY check out their sources. This whole thing stinks. Take a look at every single quote from this guy Bernie, they have no human qualitiy. Its like his dialogue is being written by a bad novelist.
This response to total gibberish is total gibberish. Apple is a PUBLIC company. With that in mind the criteria by which one judges success are clear. To name a few....Quaterly earnings, stock price, market share, annual growth, etc....
This isn't American Bandstand You don't get points for creativity & orginality (It's got a nice beat, but I can't dance to it).
BTW: You can't even compare McDonald's with Billby-Bobs Back-Woods 'You Kill It We Grill It' Road-Side Grill. The McDonald's Corporation earns the overwhelming majority of its revenue in realestate (think franchise) not retail food sales.
The statement that Mac users *love* their computers is just plain silly. The only person I know outside the computer industry that owns a Mac is my Uncle. He bought a Mac without knowing there was any difference between it and an IBM clone. That is, he didnt buy a Mac, he bought a computer. This doesnt boil down to being faithful, rather ignorant. I wouldn't be suprised if a large majority of new Mac customers arn't buying Macs because they are making informed decision, rather an uninformed one.
No big news. It seems to me it is just giving European countries the right to patent software (think US patent office). Until now this was not possible in Europe, although u could still file a US patent. Its just *ANOTHER* example of Europe playing catch-up to the US decades later.
A big problem with the big(gest hehe) European software company I work for is that since software has always been unpatentable in Europe, we are getting creamed with infrigment claims from US companies. The patent game for big corporations consist of:
Bloated Software Company A: "Hey, we have a patent on that! Pay us money or we'll sue!"
Bloated Software Company B: "Oh yeah, we'll we have patent of something your selling, so shut up!" etc.
Problem is taht a lot of Europeans companies (like the one I work for) can't tell anyone to shut up. This legelation will only help European countries compete by encouraging software patents.
Two problems/risks that my company has identified with open source are the following:
1. Software patents. Can you be sure that the piece of code you are shipping to you customers doesn't contain software methods that are pateneted? I'm not talking about copyright violations of the 'cut & paste' variety, rather software methods. The climate of software patenting is so out of control these days that it is a real risk that Open Source software may inadventantly contain patented software methods, and if my company sells that as a product/service we could be violating someone else's software patent which has legal implications including monetary damages, development stops, and product recalls.
2. Some open source licences are incompatible with the laws of some countries. In Germany the Apache License doesn't fly because it explictily states (forgot exact wording but something close to this) that the if software were to provided to another party (customer) that the transfering party is not responsible for support/service. By German law we have to support/service our products, independant of open soruce or not. So we can't use ANY apache licensed software.
tundog
The more people I meet, the more I wish I had a dog.
Well.....Last time I over-clocked my CPU, I had to make settings adjustments to my motherboard a la jumpers. In this scenario where don't want the CPU to default to the factory settings, I think I would want to know what the 'rated' MHz was, and therefore much more relevant than that DVD-rigamaroll.
What a ridiculous statement: "That's why the US is in a recession". Do you live in bubble? Hate to tell but we are not in a recession (yet) and I think consumer confidence is playing a large roll here (Think: WTC and 2 Airplanes).
If the only purchasble form of a new MJ song is in an 'unbreakable encrypted' version, than any mp3 versions of the song *must* be in violation of the DMCA. Then, they don't even have to prove you cracked it, guilty by induction.
Are you kidding?!?!
2 Major problems with the article:
1. You only learn that the author is the web principle at the end and that's if you read the fine print. I had a feeling that the author was onto something until I found ou who it was. Oh yeah, I'm sure the guy just 'likes' write in the 3rd operson, that's it. In short: propaganda
2. In a world were the term 'web content' equates Time warner et al, the site is 'content' lacking! Content isn't just descriptive text (think colors). I have some encyclopdia on CD that came bundeled with an old PC from like '92 that blows that site away.
Summary: Great concept (like linux) but not for the masses (like linux).
Let's face it, the problem isn't so much that M$ software sux, its that the software is so pervasive (think monopoly). If the number of people used Netscape that currently used Outlook, we'd be reading about a virus that affects Netscape and not M$ Outlook. If I were putting together a virus, my motivation would be to ruin as many people's days as possible. Secure software is a myth.
BTW...I'm by means an M$ fan, but Outlook blows Nescape away (and you can quote me on that).
tundog
While this is an interesting case that will be watched by other nations, the end result is obvious to me. The answer is essentially in the initial post itself. Will the US government allow France to dictate what its companies can and cannot do? I don't think so, it would be unamerican.....Besides, nobody likes the french anyway.......
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Look all, just because a newspapers picks up this story doesn't make it real. Heck, CNN was covering the "Evil Bert/Bin Laden" story, and this paper isn't even in the same league.
How often can you be sure that news sources REALLY check out their sources. This whole thing stinks. Take a look at every single quote from this guy Bernie, they have no human qualitiy. Its like his dialogue is being written by a bad novelist.
Cheers,
me
Does that mean you have to pay for bandwidth in Australia?!?!?! No flat rate deals?
This response to total gibberish is total gibberish. Apple is a PUBLIC company. With that in mind the criteria by which one judges success are clear. To name a few....Quaterly earnings, stock price, market share, annual growth, etc....
This isn't American Bandstand You don't get points for creativity & orginality (It's got a nice beat, but I can't dance to it).
BTW: You can't even compare McDonald's with Billby-Bobs Back-Woods 'You Kill It We Grill It' Road-Side Grill. The McDonald's Corporation earns the overwhelming majority of its revenue in realestate (think franchise) not retail food sales.
Cheers,
tundog
'Who are these people that mod this stuff to 5!'
See:
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You might want to check the dates......
Thanks for the update Steve!
The statement that Mac users *love* their computers is just plain silly. The only person I know outside the computer industry that owns a Mac is my Uncle. He bought a Mac without knowing there was any difference between it and an IBM clone. That is, he didnt buy a Mac, he bought a computer. This doesnt boil down to being faithful, rather ignorant. I wouldn't be suprised if a large majority of new Mac customers arn't buying Macs because they are making informed decision, rather an uninformed one.
Woot! This game is Uber!
If that doesn't already have an FBI file open on him, he does now......
Man, you need to get your priorities straight. Moving to an area with out broadband??? *tisk* *tisk*
No big news. It seems to me it is just giving European countries the right to patent software (think US patent office). Until now this was not possible in Europe, although u could still file a US patent. Its just *ANOTHER* example of Europe playing catch-up to the US decades later.
A big problem with the big(gest hehe) European software company I work for is that since software has always been unpatentable in Europe, we are getting creamed with infrigment claims from US companies. The patent game for big corporations consist of:
Bloated Software Company A: "Hey, we have a patent on that! Pay us money or we'll sue!"
Bloated Software Company B: "Oh yeah, we'll we have patent of something your selling, so shut up!" etc.
Problem is taht a lot of Europeans companies (like the one I work for) can't tell anyone to shut up. This legelation will only help European countries compete by encouraging software patents.
Two problems/risks that my company has identified with open source are the following:
1. Software patents. Can you be sure that the piece of code you are shipping to you customers doesn't contain software methods that are pateneted? I'm not talking about copyright violations of the 'cut & paste' variety, rather software methods. The climate of software patenting is so out of control these days that it is a real risk that Open Source software may inadventantly contain patented software methods, and if my company sells that as a product/service we could be violating someone else's software patent which has legal implications including monetary damages, development stops, and product recalls.
2. Some open source licences are incompatible with the laws of some countries. In Germany the Apache License doesn't fly because it explictily states (forgot exact wording but something close to this) that the if software were to provided to another party (customer) that the transfering party is not responsible for support/service. By German law we have to support/service our products, independant of open soruce or not. So we can't use ANY apache licensed software.
tundog
The more people I meet, the more I wish I had a dog.
Well.....Last time I over-clocked my CPU, I had to make settings adjustments to my motherboard a la jumpers. In this scenario where don't want the CPU to default to the factory settings, I think I would want to know what the 'rated' MHz was, and therefore much more relevant than that DVD-rigamaroll.
What a ridiculous statement: "That's why the US is in a recession". Do you live in bubble? Hate to tell but we are not in a recession (yet) and I think consumer confidence is playing a large roll here (Think: WTC and 2 Airplanes).
Here's the problem:
If the only purchasble form of a new MJ song is in an 'unbreakable encrypted' version, than any mp3 versions of the song *must* be in violation of the DMCA. Then, they don't even have to prove you cracked it, guilty by induction.
Are you kidding?!?! 2 Major problems with the article: 1. You only learn that the author is the web principle at the end and that's if you read the fine print. I had a feeling that the author was onto something until I found ou who it was. Oh yeah, I'm sure the guy just 'likes' write in the 3rd operson, that's it. In short: propaganda 2. In a world were the term 'web content' equates Time warner et al, the site is 'content' lacking! Content isn't just descriptive text (think colors). I have some encyclopdia on CD that came bundeled with an old PC from like '92 that blows that site away. Summary: Great concept (like linux) but not for the masses (like linux).
Let's face it, the problem isn't so much that M$ software sux, its that the software is so pervasive (think monopoly). If the number of people used Netscape that currently used Outlook, we'd be reading about a virus that affects Netscape and not M$ Outlook. If I were putting together a virus, my motivation would be to ruin as many people's days as possible. Secure software is a myth. BTW...I'm by means an M$ fan, but Outlook blows Nescape away (and you can quote me on that). tundog
While this is an interesting case that will be watched by other nations, the end result is obvious to me. The answer is essentially in the initial post itself. Will the US government allow France to dictate what its companies can and cannot do? I don't think so, it would be unamerican.....Besides, nobody likes the french anyway.......