If you've ever had tap water from a town along the Mississippi River, you're probably drinking some thousands of other humans' piss. Possibly even you own, if you drive south along the river. Towns on big rivers don't drill for water. They treat the river water for drinking, then treat the sewage and release it back into the river.
You mean the way the Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, LG, etc phones are not straight clones of the iPhone? One way or the other, please. Either it's okay to take inspiration or it's not. None of these phones are straight clones of the iPhone any more than the Lisa was a straight clone of the 8100 and Star.
Xerox did go to trial to protect the Star user interface. In 1989, after Apple sued Microsoft for copyright infringement of its Macintosh user interface in Windows, Xerox filed a similar lawsuit against Apple; however, it was thrown out because a three year statute of limitations had passed. (Apple eventually lost its lawsuit in 1994, losing all claims to the user interface).[15]
From what I've ever read, Xerox licensed Apple a few limited pieces of the UI for the Lisa and never for the Macintosh.
Xerox was, however, under a consent decree limiting what types of inventions they could patent and profit from (kind of like AT&T with Unix). They lost their suit over the Mac because of a statute of limitations.
Please enlighten me to where the Macintosh UI license from Xerox is.
We also must remember that Oracle before they purchased Sun were an outside party that depended on Java for large portions of their middleware stack. Therefore, anything good for wider licensing and interoperability was good for Oracle. Now Oracle is the inside party. All those other groups that want wider and more open licensing are trying to open up something Oracle owns that others can pay them for.
They actually never stopped. They don't fab anything that exposes the ARM ISA to the user, but they still use ARM-based processors on some of their peripherals.
Since they are McAfee and Symantec they hardly count for one anti-virus package between them on any OS. Use Kaspersky, Trend, Eset NOD32, F-Prot, Comodo, or anything, please anything, other than those two bloated pieces of poultry dung.
It should, but you don't have to use MySQL. You can use OpenLDAP just as easily. Hell, you can use OpenLDAP with Perdition, too, so that's a great setup.
Here's the thing many geeks don't get or just forget... the non-geeks often don't WANT to learn about the computer. They want to put in their 40 doing THEIR job and go home. They think that since there's a whole overhead IT department full of people who think about the computers all day that those people should take care of the damn tools so the people earning the company money can continue to do so.
Just because you like the computer and can teach them doesn't mean they want to learn.
We don't really care about it being mined by US companies so long as US companies get a good price on it, do we? Look at all we get from China because it's cheaper to do that.
I, who got a perfect reading comprehension score on my college entrance exams, need to work on MY reading comprehension? I, who know how to capitalize a sentence? I, who knows you put a comma between an address and what you're saying to the one you're addressing, asshat? I think you are mistaken.
Accidents happen. The people who get killed, though, are mostly either valid targets or those who stay close to people who are valid targets. Why are they close to them? Why would you be in the same tiny mountain camp as a bunch of terrorists if you're not one of them or giving them aid and support? Get the fuck out of there. Maybe even turn them in. If not, risk dying with them. It's that simple.
You don't think Pakistan, which used to be part of India and still has border skirmishes with India, would attack India if there was a terrorist organization running the country? You don't think the Sunnis who kill Jews, Christians, and other Muslims (all brothers in The Book according to more mainstream Islam) would kill a bunch of Hindu polytheists, Jainists, Buddhists, and Sikhs? You don't think just the loss of control alone would turn the long-contested Kashmir into a bloodbath? You don't think China's financial imperialism in Africa, Communist Party,and close economic partnerships with the US would make it a prime target for the former anti-communist mujahadeen?
What, exactly, do you think? Do you, exactly, think?
Well, I'm not saying I believe the war for minerals bullshit. Iraq had plenty of oil to sell anyone who wanted to buy it under Hussein, after all. The US was voluntarily not buying it as a sanction. But... if we were in Iraq over oil as some conspiracy nuts believe, and that policy applied to Afghanistan, then where the fuck is the oil in Afghanistan that's worth a war? Well, there's lithium mines out the as for batteries, but again I'm sure the Taleban would have sold us lithium and used the money to murder their own people and refuse education to women if that's all we cared about.
Yeah, because the carefully balanced foreign policy relationship Musharraf has been able to maintain with India will stand if al Qaeda takes over the country? The best thing in the world to bring on the end of a significant presence of al Qaeda in Pakistan would probably be for them to actually take power. China and India would not stand idly by with a nuclear al Qaeda attacking everything non-Sunni.
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If you've ever had tap water from a town along the Mississippi River, you're probably drinking some thousands of other humans' piss. Possibly even you own, if you drive south along the river. Towns on big rivers don't drill for water. They treat the river water for drinking, then treat the sewage and release it back into the river.
You mean the way the Samsung, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft, Nokia, LG, etc phones are not straight clones of the iPhone? One way or the other, please. Either it's okay to take inspiration or it's not. None of these phones are straight clones of the iPhone any more than the Lisa was a straight clone of the 8100 and Star.
Soo.... they copied it?
Then why does Wikipedia say this:
Xerox did go to trial to protect the Star user interface. In 1989, after Apple sued Microsoft for copyright infringement of its Macintosh user interface in Windows, Xerox filed a similar lawsuit against Apple; however, it was thrown out because a three year statute of limitations had passed. (Apple eventually lost its lawsuit in 1994, losing all claims to the user interface).[15]
???
Please give your citation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
http://www.me.utexas.edu/~me179/topics/copyright/case2.html
https://www.abanet.org/antitrust/at-journal/pdf/abstracts/v68-I3/v68-I3-abstract-06.pdf
From what I've ever read, Xerox licensed Apple a few limited pieces of the UI for the Lisa and never for the Macintosh.
Xerox was, however, under a consent decree limiting what types of inventions they could patent and profit from (kind of like AT&T with Unix). They lost their suit over the Mac because of a statute of limitations.
Please enlighten me to where the Macintosh UI license from Xerox is.
Hey, if you are divesting yourselves of some Sparc equipment really cheap, I'd be happy to take some off your hands.
We also must remember that Oracle before they purchased Sun were an outside party that depended on Java for large portions of their middleware stack. Therefore, anything good for wider licensing and interoperability was good for Oracle. Now Oracle is the inside party. All those other groups that want wider and more open licensing are trying to open up something Oracle owns that others can pay them for.
They actually never stopped. They don't fab anything that exposes the ARM ISA to the user, but they still use ARM-based processors on some of their peripherals.
How non-technical, and after how thorough of a look?
I'll just leave these here...
http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-297432.html
http://gigaom.com/2008/08/31/dont-like-the-iphone-check-out-these-touchscreen-phones/
http://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-769.php
http://www.telecomasia.net/node/5199
http://www.google.com/search?q=SPH-1300&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=jjfATeTDOIL30gHT_tXuBA&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1680&bih=947
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EEF6B3EB0A8C768&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
http://cgi.ebay.com/SPRINT-PCS-PALM-OS-WIRELESS-PHONE-SPH-1300-DUAL-BAND-/180613037497
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2000-09-25/news/18143226_1_cell-phone-palm-os
http://www.geardiary.com/2006/11/30/the-palm-treo-700p-palm-os-smartphone-review/
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=1690
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2306/
http://www.google.com/search?q=sony+p900
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/10/13/lg.debuts.new.prada.phone/
http://www.esato.com/phones/compare.php?phone=433&cp=439
http://gizmodo.com/#!190670/cect-a1000-touchscreen-phone-with-1000-hours-standby
http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/at-t-8525/4505-6452_7-32133413.html?tag=lia;rcol
these aren't phones, but what the hell... they could still be mistaken for an iPhone at a glance...
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/prodserv/handheld.html
http://www.suddenlink.net/pages/curtismc/palms.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_III
The Xerox Star, when they made the Apple Lisa and Macintosh.
Hint, hint: it's spelled "stupefyingly".
There are more groups than the Taleban and al Qaeda. The truth is, al Qaeda isn't even all one group.
Watching a movie that's not on your external hard drive when the network link is down? =;-)
Since they are McAfee and Symantec they hardly count for one anti-virus package between them on any OS. Use Kaspersky, Trend, Eset NOD32, F-Prot, Comodo, or anything, please anything, other than those two bloated pieces of poultry dung.
It should, but you don't have to use MySQL. You can use OpenLDAP just as easily. Hell, you can use OpenLDAP with Perdition, too, so that's a great setup.
I'm not even going to bother linking all of these...
http://www.mcafee.com/us/products/virusscan-enterprise-for-linux.aspx
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/serverprotect-for-linux/
http://www.kaspersky.com/linux
http://www.eset.eu/products/nod32-for-linux
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxFileserver.aspx http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforLinux/VexiraforLinuxSambaServer.aspx
http://www.centralcommand.com/Products/VexiraforMailServers.aspx
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition
http://www.avast.com/linux-unix-edition
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/endpoint/endpoint-security-and-data-protection/components/anti-virus-protection/linux.aspx?utm_source=Non-campaign&utm_medium=AdWords&utm_campaign=NA-AW-Linux
http://www.ca.com/us/Support/gsa/Virus-Info/Virus-Signature-Updates/eTrust-Antivirus-7x-for-UNIX-and-Linux.aspx
http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/desktopsecure/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/
http://www.pandasecurity.com/enterprise/solutions/commandline/
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf
http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/
Here's the thing many geeks don't get or just forget... the non-geeks often don't WANT to learn about the computer. They want to put in their 40 doing THEIR job and go home. They think that since there's a whole overhead IT department full of people who think about the computers all day that those people should take care of the damn tools so the people earning the company money can continue to do so.
Just because you like the computer and can teach them doesn't mean they want to learn.
How stupid can even a gang banger be to never have heard of sign language?
We don't really care about it being mined by US companies so long as US companies get a good price on it, do we? Look at all we get from China because it's cheaper to do that.
BTW, this guy who made a post here, comprehended what I wrote just fucking fine, asshat.
I, who got a perfect reading comprehension score on my college entrance exams, need to work on MY reading comprehension? I, who know how to capitalize a sentence? I, who knows you put a comma between an address and what you're saying to the one you're addressing, asshat? I think you are mistaken.
Accidents happen. The people who get killed, though, are mostly either valid targets or those who stay close to people who are valid targets. Why are they close to them? Why would you be in the same tiny mountain camp as a bunch of terrorists if you're not one of them or giving them aid and support? Get the fuck out of there. Maybe even turn them in. If not, risk dying with them. It's that simple.
You don't think Pakistan, which used to be part of India and still has border skirmishes with India, would attack India if there was a terrorist organization running the country? You don't think the Sunnis who kill Jews, Christians, and other Muslims (all brothers in The Book according to more mainstream Islam) would kill a bunch of Hindu polytheists, Jainists, Buddhists, and Sikhs? You don't think just the loss of control alone would turn the long-contested Kashmir into a bloodbath? You don't think China's financial imperialism in Africa, Communist Party,and close economic partnerships with the US would make it a prime target for the former anti-communist mujahadeen?
What, exactly, do you think? Do you, exactly, think?
Why forget it? Would you not rather learn from it?
Well, I'm not saying I believe the war for minerals bullshit. Iraq had plenty of oil to sell anyone who wanted to buy it under Hussein, after all. The US was voluntarily not buying it as a sanction. But... if we were in Iraq over oil as some conspiracy nuts believe, and that policy applied to Afghanistan, then where the fuck is the oil in Afghanistan that's worth a war? Well, there's lithium mines out the as for batteries, but again I'm sure the Taleban would have sold us lithium and used the money to murder their own people and refuse education to women if that's all we cared about.
You're too young, or maybe too stupid. Either way, get off my Slashdot!
He can lie better than the former leader of the CIA? Really?
Yeah, because the carefully balanced foreign policy relationship Musharraf has been able to maintain with India will stand if al Qaeda takes over the country? The best thing in the world to bring on the end of a significant presence of al Qaeda in Pakistan would probably be for them to actually take power. China and India would not stand idly by with a nuclear al Qaeda attacking everything non-Sunni.