A proper punishment for illegal abuse of monopoly power could be that you have to surrender all patents granted during the period of abuse to the public domain?
So where's the USB2 or Firewire? Wheres the built in 5G hard drive? If this is going to be a useful MP3 player and store my contacts 64 MB isn't going to cut it. I wish Apple would splice the iPod with Handspring's Treo and let me have 1 useful device in my pocket instead of 2 or 3.
While I'm very disheartened to hear this decision, what it really means is not pepetual copyright. What it means is that if we consumers want copyrights to expire in a reasonable amount of time, we have to convince OUR legistlators to set them to reasonable amounts of time. Like any other right, it's ours to defend or lose.
I realize that the picture for changing copyrights back to a reasonable term is not pretty. I understand that getting a majority of Americans to do this isn't likely.
Maybe it's time to create a Semi-Free Authoring Copyright License. One that definitely expires in a reasonable time and with the death of the author. The Open Software Movement has done a lot to create new and useful software, simply by releasing their rights. Maybe authors can choose to do the same, to the enrichment of us all.
I'll admit it, I subscribe to AOL. (Internet acces only, of course) As a true geek (tm, perhaps I should be thrown in stocks and pilloried. Truth is there are LOTS of people out there who need training wheels, permanent training wheels. Personally I got deathly sick of [unable to display image] when my AOL friends didn't understand the differenct between embedding and attaching. Now those folks can send me stuff without me having to do lecture on attacments.
People of my parents generation often don't have the technical understanding to setup and use more complicated solutions. Instead they buy a 'computer as appliance' and slap on M$N (shudder) or AOL, and learn that instead of trying to understand all the layers involved.
The GUI is challenging enough, let alone configuring the network, setting up IMAP, trying to figure out why the modem script doesn't work, figuring out which ISP to use, and navigating support mazes to figure out what's really wrong.
What they really want is a way to get connected to their children where they can send pictures, and exchange notes. AOL and MSN, and even Earthlink do that for them as package deals.
It may not be the cheapest, but they're not poor, and they'd rather spend their time fishing, cooking, and hanging with their friends, than upgrading their DSL driver to version 2.8.
There are lots of things that are 'antibacterial' without being an 'antibiotic'. Chlorox is certainly antibacterial, but it's not an antibiotic in the sense that a doctor prescribes.
The compound used in most soaps, triclosan, isn't related to penecillin, erythromycin, etc. I certainly wouldn't recommend you eat Dial.
So washing your hands with antibacterial Dial isn't going to doom you to death by vancomycin resistant staph.
There are good reasons to avoid antibacterial soap, like killing of beneficial organisms, but don't confuse that with antibiotic resistant organisms caused by misuse of prescribed antibiotics.
But of course, I don't see anything about the system performing offsite backups, doing it's own disaster recovery plan, training new users, and, of course resource planning.
This is a total fluff piece. The only 'innovation' I see here is smarter storage reallocation. Storage reallocation is, at a best, grunt work. Good riddance to it!
I've been researching and using forms of ketogenic dieting for YEARS now. I highly recommend Lyle McDonald's book on the subject if you really want to understand what metabolic changes go on, and how you body adapts to the lack of carbohydrates. I have no financial interest in this book, I'm just an extremely satified customer.
I'm not going to rehash all of the information he gives, except to say that this diet has worked wonders for me, allowing me to reach goals of weight loss without sacrificing strength.
To rebut the article. Ketones have never made be 'nauseus'. Instead, I find that when ketogenic dieting my hunger is blunted, not removed. The swings that sugar and insulin cause in my body go away. That alone is worth the effort.
Honey, junior is out of paper for his art class project, can you yank our signed monet off the wall and take off the frame, I'm sure the canvas will work fine for his project.
Given the raft of security bugs surrounding IE and forged certs, isn't it kind of dangerous to do your banking on IE? Wouldn't Mozilla or Konqueror be a safer choice?
1) Palm is tanking, badly. 2) Handspring has yet to support OS X native despite platitudes for over a year. 3) Windows CE devices are not Mac compatible. 4) Sony doesn't support Mac OS directly.
Apple's PDA section of the digital hub is about to get very sparse and remain unsupported if it doesn't do something fairly soon. Options are:
1) Kick Handspring in the nuts. (Please do!) 2) Buy Palm outright. 3) Convince Sony to play nice. 4) Live with outdated PDAs.
Or, in my not so humble opionion, dump the whole problem by making the right move and producing (either on their own or in cahoots with a mobile phone manufacturer) a combined PDA/phone.
Think about it, it doesn't make sense to spend time and effort syncing your PDA, your Phone, your iPod, and your desktop. It makes a lot more sense to start putting them into one device, and syncing that to your desktop.
Battery life is now reasonable to support it, Apple has repeatedly proved that the can put out UI that makes a device world class. (See the iPod). And nobody else out there wants to support Apple's hub strategy, they all want a share of the Bill Gates' market.
While I don't agree that Apple will likely produce a proprietary phone. They don't have to. All they have to do is work their interface magic on the front end of one.
Who care's who's 'talk to the network guts' live inside the phone, at that level, there is no differentiation from Nokia, to Erricson to Kyocera. What's going to make thing killer is a new 'front end' that makes your phone a better tool. And who's produced the most innovative tools in the last 15 years?
The ads they're discussing here are very short. They'd be useful for 'brand recognition'. That's all 20-30 seconds of ads, at an 'uneven' frame rate, with no sound, will give you.
Those of you picturing the Guiness ad from Minority Report are going to be very disappointed. On the upside, at least they're not scanning your retina!
We only wrote bad code that made it through QA for 5 different versions of the OS dating back to the mid 90s. Of course, with Palladium, our new secure platform, things like this will never happen. Good thing we got that patch out quick!
(Oh wait, that was the Konqueror people!)
We'll I'm sure with our new secure computing focus it will be out any time now. Please don't stop doing ecommerce, just because all your personal data can be hacked, just use Passport.
Microsoft, on the other hand, with their $40 Billion in the bank, certainly isn't in any economic position to back off on their draconian licensing. I mean, how many gold plated ivory back scratchers would those extra 3 licenses/home cost them.:)
Please make sure to notice, Apple isn't attempting to add security to make anyone 'buy' their family license. Instead they're just giving you the option to be a good citizen and pay for those upgrades.
Lambast Apple all you want for the price of 10.2, but remember you won't suddenly find that your iMac stopped working because somebody thinks you've stolen the license.
I really want to see how many people will avail themselves of this option. Perhaps the MPAA and RIAA will sit up and notice if people demonstrate that they're willing to pay for reasonable licenses.
Following in the footsteps of the esteemed Universtity of Waterloo, we'd like to announce a joint venture with the RIAA. In return for a generous donation from the music industry, we're adding a mandatory course in copywrite extension and protection. Students will learn first hand how the indefinite extension of copywrites and the robust persecution of lawbreakers, help insure the future of our great legal tradition.
It pisses me off that i can't read this without paying. I mean all were getting here is the watered down abstract. And the link will likely be hosed shortly anyway due to./ effect.
Of course they're all tools, but then would you rather correspond with us all by writing individual notes to all of us with that pencil or would you prefer to enlighten us all by posting with your computer?
One thought that just came to mind is that someone, somewhere is implimenting this software to create and propagate things like digital watermarks. Maybe it's time we as programmers to an equivalent to the 'hippocratic oath?' Swearing to do no harm by agreeing not to create the kind of nightmare software protections we see coming to be?
When I read about this in the previous slashdot posting, I was shocked that ICANN had ruled the way it had. Once again, money talks.
Kudo's to the Canadian court, but do they really have jurisdiction over ICANN? Does anyone? Or has this monster finally taken a life of it's own?
The precedent remains an appalling one.
I keep coming back to the concept of "Treehouse" from Tad William's Otherland series. Originally he conceived of it as a 'kill file' turned inside out. (Guess he used to be a USENET afficianado.)
Maybe it's time to create a TREEHOUSE of own with a set of new root DNS server shared on a P2P network. (Of course this TREEHOUSE would be conceived of as a DNS system turned inside out.) I can serve abcdxxxx.com through abdexxxx.com!;)
By now there has to be sufficient bandwidth out there to support something like this. Good grief if we have enough spare cycles to find extraterrestrial life (seti.org) and bankrupt the RIAA with Napster, we have compute power to leave ICANN in the dust.
How is this unlike the US Government paying some 3rd world South American government large sums of money as 'foreign aid' to keep the people they want in power and the government friendly?
Well, except that the role of the US Government is now being played by Micro$oft. Something I fear that will become increasingly common. Then again, oil companies have been doing this sort of thing in the Middle East for eons.
There is still the old adage, "Don't steal, the government doesn't like competition." Maybe Uncle Sam will begin to see this as walking on his turf. Naah, not with George and his brand of corporate pushovers in office.
Bill's real fear here, of course, is that Free Software might succeed in Peru. If it did, how would he keep his monopoly in any other similar sized nation?
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A proper punishment for illegal abuse of monopoly power could be that you have to surrender all patents granted during the period of abuse to the public domain?
I know, I'm way off topic....
So where's the USB2 or Firewire? Wheres the built in 5G hard drive? If this is going to be a useful MP3 player and store my contacts 64 MB isn't going to cut it. I wish Apple would splice the iPod with Handspring's Treo and let me have 1 useful device in my pocket instead of 2 or 3.
While I'm very disheartened to hear this decision, what it really means is not pepetual copyright. What it means is that if we consumers want copyrights to expire in a reasonable amount of time, we have to convince OUR legistlators to set them to reasonable amounts of time. Like any other right, it's ours to defend or lose.
I realize that the picture for changing copyrights back to a reasonable term is not pretty. I understand that getting a majority of Americans to do this isn't likely.
Maybe it's time to create a Semi-Free Authoring Copyright License. One that definitely expires in a reasonable time and with the death of the author. The Open Software Movement has done a lot to create new and useful software, simply by releasing their rights. Maybe authors can choose to do the same, to the enrichment of us all.
I got a pink slip, and unemployment checks.
I'll admit it, I subscribe to AOL. (Internet acces only, of course) As a true geek (tm, perhaps I should be thrown in stocks and pilloried. Truth is there are LOTS of people out there who need training wheels, permanent training wheels. Personally I got deathly sick of [unable to display image] when my AOL friends didn't understand the differenct between embedding and attaching. Now those folks can send me stuff without me having to do lecture on attacments.
People of my parents generation often don't have the technical understanding to setup and use more complicated solutions. Instead they buy a 'computer as appliance' and slap on M$N (shudder) or AOL, and learn that instead of trying to understand all the layers involved.
The GUI is challenging enough, let alone configuring the network, setting up IMAP, trying to figure out why the modem script doesn't work, figuring out which ISP to use, and navigating support mazes to figure out what's really wrong.
What they really want is a way to get connected to their children where they can send pictures, and exchange notes. AOL and MSN, and even Earthlink do that for them as package deals.
It may not be the cheapest, but they're not poor, and they'd rather spend their time fishing, cooking, and hanging with their friends, than upgrading their DSL driver to version 2.8.
There are lots of things that are 'antibacterial' without being an 'antibiotic'. Chlorox is certainly antibacterial, but it's not an antibiotic in the sense that a doctor prescribes.
The compound used in most soaps, triclosan, isn't related to penecillin, erythromycin, etc. I certainly wouldn't recommend you eat Dial.
So washing your hands with antibacterial Dial isn't going to doom you to death by vancomycin resistant staph.
There are good reasons to avoid antibacterial soap, like killing of beneficial organisms, but don't confuse that with antibiotic resistant organisms caused by misuse of prescribed antibiotics.
But of course, I don't see anything about the system performing offsite backups, doing it's own disaster recovery plan, training new users, and, of course resource planning.
This is a total fluff piece. The only 'innovation' I see here is smarter storage reallocation. Storage reallocation is, at a best, grunt work. Good riddance to it!
I'm not going to rehash all of the information he gives, except to say that this diet has worked wonders for me, allowing me to reach goals of weight loss without sacrificing strength.
To rebut the article. Ketones have never made be 'nauseus'. Instead, I find that when ketogenic dieting my hunger is blunted, not removed. The swings that sugar and insulin cause in my body go away. That alone is worth the effort.
Honey, junior is out of paper for his art class project, can you yank our signed monet off the wall and take off the frame, I'm sure the canvas will work fine for his project.
Given the raft of security bugs surrounding IE and forged certs, isn't it kind of dangerous to do your banking on IE? Wouldn't Mozilla or Konqueror be a safer choice?
And I got this fabulous tennis bracelet.
I do that too, but when it fails and blows away all my addresses, I'm gonna be screwed. And I won't have any support from the vendor to fix it.
1) Palm is tanking, badly.
2) Handspring has yet to support OS X native despite platitudes for over a year.
3) Windows CE devices are not Mac compatible.
4) Sony doesn't support Mac OS directly.
Apple's PDA section of the digital hub is about to get very sparse and remain unsupported if it doesn't do something fairly soon. Options are:
1) Kick Handspring in the nuts. (Please do!)
2) Buy Palm outright.
3) Convince Sony to play nice.
4) Live with outdated PDAs.
Or, in my not so humble opionion, dump the whole problem by making the right move and producing (either on their own or in cahoots with a mobile phone manufacturer) a combined PDA/phone.
Think about it, it doesn't make sense to spend time and effort syncing your PDA, your Phone, your iPod, and your desktop. It makes a lot more sense to start putting them into one device, and syncing that to your desktop.
Battery life is now reasonable to support it, Apple has repeatedly proved that the can put out UI that makes a device world class. (See the iPod). And nobody else out there wants to support Apple's hub strategy, they all want a share of the Bill Gates' market.
While I don't agree that Apple will likely produce a proprietary phone. They don't have to. All they have to do is work their interface magic on the front end of one.
Who care's who's 'talk to the network guts' live inside the phone, at that level, there is no differentiation from Nokia, to Erricson to Kyocera. What's going to make thing killer is a new 'front end' that makes your phone a better tool. And who's produced the most innovative tools in the last 15 years?
Where do you want to mow today?
The ads they're discussing here are very short. They'd be useful for 'brand recognition'. That's all 20-30 seconds of ads, at an 'uneven' frame rate, with no sound, will give you.
Those of you picturing the Guiness ad from Minority Report are going to be very disappointed. On the upside, at least they're not scanning your retina!
We only wrote bad code that made it through QA for 5 different versions of the OS dating back to the mid 90s. Of course, with Palladium, our new secure platform, things like this will never happen. Good thing we got that patch out quick!
(Oh wait, that was the Konqueror people!)
We'll I'm sure with our new secure computing focus it will be out any time now. Please don't stop doing ecommerce, just because all your personal data can be hacked, just use Passport.
(Oh wait, that happens with Passport too!)
Ummmm...
Microsoft, on the other hand, with their $40 Billion in the bank, certainly isn't in any economic position to back off on their draconian licensing. I mean, how many gold plated ivory back scratchers would those extra 3 licenses/home cost them. :)
Lambast Apple all you want for the price of 10.2, but remember you won't suddenly find that your iMac stopped working because somebody thinks you've stolen the license.
I really want to see how many people will avail themselves of this option. Perhaps the MPAA and RIAA will sit up and notice if people demonstrate that they're willing to pay for reasonable licenses.
Following in the footsteps of the esteemed Universtity of Waterloo, we'd like to announce a joint venture with the RIAA. In return for a generous donation from the music industry, we're adding a mandatory course in copywrite extension and protection. Students will learn first hand how the indefinite extension of copywrites and the robust persecution of lawbreakers, help insure the future of our great legal tradition.
It pisses me off that i can't read this without paying. I mean all were getting here is the watered down abstract. And the link will likely be hosed shortly anyway due to ./ effect.
Of course they're all tools, but then would you rather correspond with us all by writing individual notes to all of us with that pencil or would you prefer to enlighten us all by posting with your computer?
All tools were not created equal.
[for proof, check the X-rated video section!]
One thought that just came to mind is that someone, somewhere is implimenting this software to create and propagate things like digital watermarks. Maybe it's time we as programmers to an equivalent to the 'hippocratic oath?' Swearing to do no harm by agreeing not to create the kind of nightmare software protections we see coming to be?
First do no DRM!
Kudo's to the Canadian court, but do they really have jurisdiction over ICANN? Does anyone? Or has this monster finally taken a life of it's own?
The precedent remains an appalling one.
I keep coming back to the concept of "Treehouse" from Tad William's Otherland series. Originally he conceived of it as a 'kill file' turned inside out. (Guess he used to be a USENET afficianado.)
Maybe it's time to create a TREEHOUSE of own with a set of new root DNS server shared on a P2P network. (Of course this TREEHOUSE would be conceived of as a DNS system turned inside out.) I can serve abcdxxxx.com through abdexxxx.com! ;)
By now there has to be sufficient bandwidth out there to support something like this. Good grief if we have enough spare cycles to find extraterrestrial life (seti.org) and bankrupt the RIAA with Napster, we have compute power to leave ICANN in the dust.
What's the time to market for a cap with a solar powered beanie propeller?
How is this unlike the US Government paying some 3rd world South American government large sums of money as 'foreign aid' to keep the people they want in power and the government friendly?
Well, except that the role of the US Government is now being played by Micro$oft. Something I fear that will become increasingly common. Then again, oil companies have been doing this sort of thing in the Middle East for eons.
There is still the old adage, "Don't steal, the government doesn't like competition." Maybe Uncle Sam will begin to see this as walking on his turf. Naah, not with George and his brand of corporate pushovers in office.
Bill's real fear here, of course, is that Free Software might succeed in Peru. If it did, how would he keep his monopoly in any other similar sized nation?