The device was sold specifically without that capability, so why is modding it to do so seen as a right?
It's my right because I OWN the device.
As a former owner, Microsoft has no control over what I do with the device. If I sell a house, I have no say over whether the new owner paints all the rooms lime green and puts in red shag carpeting. It's not my house anymore. Likewise, when I buy a 360, it's not Microsoft's 360 anymore.
It's called "private property", and it's been part of Western culture for at least 6,000 years. The burden of proof is on you to show why I shouldn't be allowed to do what I want with my own property.
Didn't you accept a license when you bought the thing?
I disagree. While Apple has the right to reject the emulator from their own store I refuse to accept that they have the right to bar this person from developing any product he wants for it. Just because a wrench is designed for a 5/8" bolt doesn't mean you can't use it as a pry bar, but that is specifically what Apple is trying to do with their "EULA" of the SDK and I find that reprehensible. While it is true that a person has the option to not buy a product. You fail to take into account that they also have the innate right of altering any product they own however they see fit. Anyone who disagrees with that is ignoring one of the fundamental driving forces of innovation for the last several millenia.
He can write any app he wants; he just can't sell it on Apple's app store.
High horse? At least I'm not stuck in the intellectual mud like you are. All of you people are ignoring the larger problem here, which is that Apple purports to control the applications a customer runs on a device he's purchased outright. It's ludicrous. Apple has no moral authority to set these rules at all.
Absolutely they do. They developed the iPhone; they created the app store. The iPhone is their intellectual property; the app store is their actual property. As far as I'm concerned, they have the right to refuse to even sell you an iPhone if they don't like the color of your hair. You have no Constitutional right to an iPhone, or to sell an iPhone app on Apple's store. If you don't like it, invent your own smartphone and sell apps for it on your own website.
The larger problem here is that Apple can reject applications at all. You people seem to have passively accepted it. It's as if you were in Salem arguing about whether a witch should have been burned or hanged while ignoring the larger question is whether you should execute the alleged "witch" at all!
Apple doesn't own the town of Salem, they only own what's theirs. And they're not burning or hanging anyone. Although, here in (at least some of) the States, they would be legally justified in killing someone who's behaving unlawfully on their property.
I take it you're not a big fan of private property?
Hunter-gatherers "worked" an average of 10-20 hours a week to maintain themselves.
"Maintain themselves" at what standard of living? Did those hunter-gatherers own cars, or have indoor plumbing, or central AC, or Internet access? Or books, or telephones, etc.?
Bottom line: we no longer need as much labor put in to meet our needs, so we need to stop withholding needed goods and services based on how much labor one puts in. There's enough for everyone. Let's be nice about it.
There's only "enough for everyone" if you're willing to accept the standard of living we have now, divided amongst all the people of the world. Which would leave us somewhere around the state of those hunter-gatherers above. No thanks.
Perhaps "Chrysler will be gone soon enough - hopefully things will start to turn around."?
That's right. Pretty soon they'll be bought up by a real car company that knows how to build cars that people will buy, and they will help turn Chrysler around, hopefully.
I'm sorry... Maybe it's cause I'm from Europe, but what does guns have to do with government being answerable to the people? If they don't answer, you'll shoot them? Hell, in Norway we got 1.5 million weapons with a population of 4.7 million. Yet we don't go around having wet dreams of a future where the government becomes totalitarian so we can shoot people we don't like in an excuse of a revolution
It's not a wet dream (well, except maybe for a crazy few), it's a nightmare. But isn't it still better to be ready for it? Especially since we know it's happened in the past (didn't the Nazis own your country for a while a few dozen years ago?) and will happen again?
When will there be a way to check a person's marijuana intoxication level quickly and easily at a traffic stop?
It's simple. Are there a dozen empty bags of Doritos on the floor of the car, and is the driver listening to the radio with the sound turned all the way down?
"The man got little more than a new computer and a modest bonus"
witch isn't fair, but... the people that *make* games in the west, more often than not, are paid similarly by the people that *own* them. that is: a salary and, in case the game turns up to be a good game, a bonus. so in this particular case Soviet Russia is equal to most of the west's game industry.
Are you seriously comparing Soviet-era vs. Silicon Valley programmers' salaries?
The school or company would have asserted ownership rights since the computer he developed it on, was theirs. Which is the downfall of capitalism, in a nutshell:)
Explain how that constitutes the downfall of anything. Why is a programmer entitled to get rich by using someone else's property, on someone else's paid time? If that programmer wants to strike it rich, he can buy a computer and work on it in his basement. Which is exactly what a lot of programmers did do, who did strike it rich.
If we paint all the roofs white, what about the additional heating costs this will incur in the winter in the colder parts of the world? Seems to me we need a way to turn the roofs (and pavement etc.) white in the summer, and black in the winter, no?
Heinlein's, Stranger in a Strange Land,would also rock.
Yes, it would. Meanwhile, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would rawwwwwwk. I can already picture the trailer in my head, ending with a grain vessel (filled with rocks) being launched off the catapult, pan the camera to a view of Earth, where an earlier launched vessel is exploding on Cheyenne Mountain...
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is a great example. The late great Andrei Tarkovksy directed a film based on this in the early 1970s in the USSR. Many people, including me, consider this film to be a classic, but Lem hated it.
So did I. BOOOOO-RING. That ridiculous half-hour montage where Kelvin is being driven to meet with the council? What was that supposed to be, propaganda for great new clean beautiful Soviet Russian highway? Holy cow.
The 2002 film starring George Clooney was a big failure and many hate it, but Lem himself loved it because he considered it to be true to his original story. Go figure.
I loved it (well, I liked it a lot), not only because it was closer to the original story, but because it's simply a much better piece of film - better paced, much more beautiful (to be expected, I know), and 'cause Natascha MacElhone's in it.;-)
Lowering spending is the only option. Raising taxes in never an option. New taxes are even less than "never an option". This madness must stop and stop now! I will not pay one red cent in new taxes anywhere!
Well, that's why we've got 50 states, pal - don't like this one, go find another one.
Of course, it would also be nice if NY (and other states like CA, NJ, MA, CT - notice how they're all blue states?) got as much money back from Washington as it pays in - as it is, only about 80% of Federal taxes paid by New Yorkers end up back in NY. The rest goes to red states like Colorado and Wyoming and Alaska.
Don't forget vocal chord rupture. James Labrie of Dream Theater had this happen after eating in Cuba and getting food poisoning. Ten years later, he was fully recovered. In the meantime, he had nowhere near the vocal range that he used to.
And sadly, in the meantime, Dream Theater continued to exist.
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How nice for you. In case you haven't heard, not all human beings are the same as you.
But on the other hand, closed platforms really do feel wrong, and that feeling resonates with a lot of people.
We're making law based on "feelings" now? Welcome to the end of civilization.
It's my right because I OWN the device.
As a former owner, Microsoft has no control over what I do with the device. If I sell a house, I have no say over whether the new owner paints all the rooms lime green and puts in red shag carpeting. It's not my house anymore. Likewise, when I buy a 360, it's not Microsoft's 360 anymore.
It's called "private property", and it's been part of Western culture for at least 6,000 years. The burden of proof is on you to show why I shouldn't be allowed to do what I want with my own property.
Didn't you accept a license when you bought the thing?
I disagree. While Apple has the right to reject the emulator from their own store I refuse to accept that they have the right to bar this person from developing any product he wants for it. Just because a wrench is designed for a 5/8" bolt doesn't mean you can't use it as a pry bar, but that is specifically what Apple is trying to do with their "EULA" of the SDK and I find that reprehensible. While it is true that a person has the option to not buy a product. You fail to take into account that they also have the innate right of altering any product they own however they see fit. Anyone who disagrees with that is ignoring one of the fundamental driving forces of innovation for the last several millenia.
He can write any app he wants; he just can't sell it on Apple's app store.
High horse? At least I'm not stuck in the intellectual mud like you are. All of you people are ignoring the larger problem here, which is that Apple purports to control the applications a customer runs on a device he's purchased outright. It's ludicrous. Apple has no moral authority to set these rules at all.
Absolutely they do. They developed the iPhone; they created the app store. The iPhone is their intellectual property; the app store is their actual property. As far as I'm concerned, they have the right to refuse to even sell you an iPhone if they don't like the color of your hair. You have no Constitutional right to an iPhone, or to sell an iPhone app on Apple's store. If you don't like it, invent your own smartphone and sell apps for it on your own website.
The larger problem here is that Apple can reject applications at all. You people seem to have passively accepted it. It's as if you were in Salem arguing about whether a witch should have been burned or hanged while ignoring the larger question is whether you should execute the alleged "witch" at all!
Apple doesn't own the town of Salem, they only own what's theirs. And they're not burning or hanging anyone. Although, here in (at least some of) the States, they would be legally justified in killing someone who's behaving unlawfully on their property.
I take it you're not a big fan of private property?
Hunter-gatherers "worked" an average of 10-20 hours a week to maintain themselves.
"Maintain themselves" at what standard of living? Did those hunter-gatherers own cars, or have indoor plumbing, or central AC, or Internet access? Or books, or telephones, etc.?
Bottom line: we no longer need as much labor put in to meet our needs, so we need to stop withholding needed goods and services based on how much labor one puts in. There's enough for everyone. Let's be nice about it.
There's only "enough for everyone" if you're willing to accept the standard of living we have now, divided amongst all the people of the world. Which would leave us somewhere around the state of those hunter-gatherers above. No thanks.
Perhaps "Chrysler will be gone soon enough - hopefully things will start to turn around."?
That's right. Pretty soon they'll be bought up by a real car company that knows how to build cars that people will buy, and they will help turn Chrysler around, hopefully.
I'm sorry... Maybe it's cause I'm from Europe, but what does guns have to do with government being answerable to the people? If they don't answer, you'll shoot them? Hell, in Norway we got 1.5 million weapons with a population of 4.7 million. Yet we don't go around having wet dreams of a future where the government becomes totalitarian so we can shoot people we don't like in an excuse of a revolution
It's not a wet dream (well, except maybe for a crazy few), it's a nightmare. But isn't it still better to be ready for it? Especially since we know it's happened in the past (didn't the Nazis own your country for a while a few dozen years ago?) and will happen again?
HyperTransport is not a big truck! It's a series of tunnels!
Too bad it's not a station wagon full of tapes.
Feh. And it doesn't even run Crysis.
When will there be a way to check a person's marijuana intoxication level quickly and easily at a traffic stop?
It's simple. Are there a dozen empty bags of Doritos on the floor of the car, and is the driver listening to the radio with the sound turned all the way down?
"The man got little more than a new computer and a modest bonus"
witch isn't fair, but...
the people that *make* games in the west, more often than not, are paid similarly by the people that *own* them.
that is: a salary and, in case the game turns up to be a good game, a bonus.
so in this particular case Soviet Russia is equal to most of the west's game industry.
Are you seriously comparing Soviet-era vs. Silicon Valley programmers' salaries?
The school or company would have asserted ownership rights since the computer he developed it on, was theirs. Which is the downfall of capitalism, in a nutshell :)
Explain how that constitutes the downfall of anything. Why is a programmer entitled to get rich by using someone else's property, on someone else's paid time? If that programmer wants to strike it rich, he can buy a computer and work on it in his basement. Which is exactly what a lot of programmers did do, who did strike it rich.
C'mon, it was funny, admit it.
If we paint all the roofs white, what about the additional heating costs this will incur in the winter in the colder parts of the world? Seems to me we need a way to turn the roofs (and pavement etc.) white in the summer, and black in the winter, no?
Agreed.
Why not use a combination? Say, an encrypted password database combined with an escrow key stored in a safe?
Who remembers the combination to the safe?
Heinlein's, Stranger in a Strange Land ,would also rock.
Yes, it would. Meanwhile, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress would rawwwwwwk. I can already picture the trailer in my head, ending with a grain vessel (filled with rocks) being launched off the catapult, pan the camera to a view of Earth, where an earlier launched vessel is exploding on Cheyenne Mountain...
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem is a great example. The late great Andrei Tarkovksy directed a film based on this in the early 1970s in the USSR. Many people, including me, consider this film to be a classic, but Lem hated it.
So did I. BOOOOO-RING. That ridiculous half-hour montage where Kelvin is being driven to meet with the council? What was that supposed to be, propaganda for great new clean beautiful Soviet Russian highway? Holy cow.
The 2002 film starring George Clooney was a big failure and many hate it, but Lem himself loved it because he considered it to be true to his original story. Go figure.
I loved it (well, I liked it a lot), not only because it was closer to the original story, but because it's simply a much better piece of film - better paced, much more beautiful (to be expected, I know), and 'cause Natascha MacElhone's in it. ;-)
Lowering spending is the only option. Raising taxes in never an option. New taxes are even less than "never an option". This madness must stop and stop now! I will not pay one red cent in new taxes anywhere!
Well, that's why we've got 50 states, pal - don't like this one, go find another one.
Of course, it would also be nice if NY (and other states like CA, NJ, MA, CT - notice how they're all blue states?) got as much money back from Washington as it pays in - as it is, only about 80% of Federal taxes paid by New Yorkers end up back in NY. The rest goes to red states like Colorado and Wyoming and Alaska.
downtown Vancouver?
I kinda wonder how much of the 'good stuff' is in our air..
Not enough.
Surely you meant to say Dunder Mifflin Paper Company? Heaven forbid Michael Scott ever become anything more than middle management!
Surely you meant to say the Wernham Hogg Paper Company. And who's this Michael Scott bloke?
Don't forget vocal chord rupture. James Labrie of Dream Theater had this happen after eating in Cuba and getting food poisoning. Ten years later, he was fully recovered. In the meantime, he had nowhere near the vocal range that he used to.
And sadly, in the meantime, Dream Theater continued to exist.
(best acquired in childhood)
You mean like cases of malignant narcissism?
When you can keep up with the speed limit, you can have the rights of drivers. When you ride on the sidewalk, you can have the rights of pedestrians.
At least where I live (NY), it is illegal to ride on the sidewalk.
I'm guessing you don't live in the US. Either that, or you used to own a Ferrari.