The problem is not just with software support: Apple lacks the enterprise-level hardware support. They do not offer complete care on laptops like Dell does, not even 24x7 or 8x5. What this means is that if your machine breaks you have to either send it back or bring it to an Apple shop that will send it back for you.
I can only guess the same problem occurs with the Xserve. I can get a technician on-site to fix my Dell within 4 hours if that's what I want.
I run Linux on all my machines, so software support is not my primary concern. In my experience Apple has proven that they are not willing/able to provide the type of support that a business customer needs.
You can't patent something to withold a third party from using your proprietary technology. The whole point of the patent system is to allow you a head start on competition. If you do not make the technology available yourself, a judge can force you to license it out to someone who will..
Those of you unfamiliar with the current state of Canadian politics may find it interesting to learn that the current Gvt is in a minority position and since Monday has completely lost control of the Parliament. They have no intention of regaining it - i.e. we will have elections as soon as the opposition decides to put its trousers on and defeat the Gvt on a confidence motion (i.e. financial)
Therefore in an attempt to stall said oposition and force them into election the Gvt has presented many incomplete bills today knowing that none of them will have a chance to pass.
I agree that you should never blindly trust what you read on Wikipedia, I basically used this as a link to examples of what I knew is an issue in IP law. IANAL but I have my LLC.
Whatever turns you on. Why don't you follow the link and learn a bit. Notice how Xerox itself had to go through a fight to educate people on "photocopying" versus "xeroxing".
You'll find a list of names that used to be trademarks, duly registered or not, and disappeared because of generic use. Good luck on your conspiracy theory quest.
The major threat for a trademark if you do not defend it properly is that it might become a generic word, thus appear in a dictionary and your exclusive rights may not be enforced anymore.
That is why you have companies like Kleenex who will insist that people refer to their product as "Kleenex facial tissue" rather than simply "kleenex". Once a trademark becomes a common word it is genericized and forever lost.
Examples: Aspirin in the USA Bikini Cola Granola Zeppelin Yo-Yo
(Of course, this is also true of cordless phones, but anyone can head to a drug store in a major power outage and buy a $10 AT&T corded phone if they don't already have one. This cannot be done for a VoIP phone, though.)
Would you seriously keep your drugstore open when power goes down?:)
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
I don't know about you, but by reading this, Bill's intentions become clear from the start. Isn't he instructing his staff to patent as much as they can? Funny how RMS would hide this essential piece of the quote in [...]...
True. But I am amazed that the Aluminum/Alzheimer connection is not being made in the mainstream media when 1) the "disease" is endemic and 2) it currently is the only link between people dying from the disease and human generated by products.
Probably too much money at stake.
People barbecuing their veggies in tinfoil simply freak me out..
Great, all we needed was yet another common source of aluminium. Although the Aluminum-Alzheimer link has not been scientifically established, so can be said about cigarettes and cancer, if you ask the tobacco companies..
>Run a small website with the MySQL database? If all >the source to that site is not GPLed, you're in >violation. That's despite the fact that your site >should be a clear and separate product from MySQL.
Not if you don't redistribute your website's code.. Or am I on crack?
They probably did this so Slashdotter don't get hurt! Read a little about the funny P/E calculations in this thread and you'll see how many innocents would get anihilated if the price was artificially brought down by issuing a 10x multiple of shares.
You forgot to account for the fact that only 10% of outstanding shares are part of this IPO. Your total number of shares is more around 240M and your P/E is in the 100+ range. With this revised information I believe it is safe to say that the stock is overpriced.
This isn't about violating standards. We've been faking caller ids for fun with Asterisk for a while. It does work, however my local (Bell) provider will not let me put one of its own numbers in the bogus CID I pass.
This is a normal "feature" of CID. That's how you can go through a third-party LD provider yet still have your own phone number show up on the recipient's display. Voicepulse or other VOIP providers are not being overly permissive here. If you get a T1 bank you will have the same capability. That's what makes it possible for huge corporations to have thousands of phone lines in hundreds of offices yet display only their main incoming number on your caller id capable phone when someone from their office calls you.
The difference is that now average Joe can fake CID like the big boys used to do with a mere $7/month investment, vs the couple hundred dollars it would cost (plus install fees) if you went with a standard channel bank.
CID is for information purposes only. The problem is that people have grown to trust it as being 100% accurate, but they definitely shouldn't.
How is this news or important to anybody?
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Moderators: Please give me a break, aren't you tired of useless stories like this one? Let's do ourselves a favor and kill the virus.
Sorry dude, but you are a moron. One inch equals 2.54cm. Hence a meter is 39.37007874015748031496062992126 inches.
What's the news? Am I supposed to post to slashdot every time I'm wrong in an argument?
Unless this was a "Feel good, meet a dumb slashdotter" story of the week, I just don't see the point.
Your story deserves to be in the Ask Slashdot section.
1) EFF aggregates list of spam-unfriendly addresses. 2) [...] 3) Profit!
The only problem is that you *will* have another generation of spammers who *will* believe that they can succeed in selling products to this anti-spam community. After all what age group/profession would qualify as the representative majority of the anti-spam movement?
And it does deserve a stupid answer. Mod me down if you want, but why did the poster need to ask such stupid question? He could have presented the facts like he did and feed the discussion. Why the rethoric questions which leave us all wondering whether life's hardships made him a moron or if he was born that way?
Until the current owners start selling shares or end up fighting with each other and a few of them use the public's 33% to get control.
In the long run, it will only require 25% of the shares to control a large company like Google. See for yourself how this is done in other big companies.
Don't forget that some of the current owners will want to cash out, and that will make the 33% public shares go even higher.
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The problem is not just with software support: Apple lacks the enterprise-level hardware support. They do not offer complete care on laptops like Dell does, not even 24x7 or 8x5. What this means is that if your machine breaks you have to either send it back or bring it to an Apple shop that will send it back for you.
I can only guess the same problem occurs with the Xserve. I can get a technician on-site to fix my Dell within 4 hours if that's what I want.
I run Linux on all my machines, so software support is not my primary concern. In my experience Apple has proven that they are not willing/able to provide the type of support that a business customer needs.
You can't patent something to withold a third party from using your proprietary technology. The whole point of the patent system is to allow you a head start on competition. If you do not make the technology available yourself, a judge can force you to license it out to someone who will..
Double-edged sword??!
Those of you unfamiliar with the current state of Canadian politics may find it interesting to learn that the current Gvt is in a minority position and since Monday has completely lost control of the Parliament. They have no intention of regaining it - i.e. we will have elections as soon as the opposition decides to put its trousers on and defeat the Gvt on a confidence motion (i.e. financial)
Therefore in an attempt to stall said oposition and force them into election the Gvt has presented many incomplete bills today knowing that none of them will have a chance to pass.
Sorry but nothing to see here, maybe next year.
I agree that you should never blindly trust what you read on Wikipedia, I basically used this as a link to examples of what I knew is an issue in IP law. IANAL but I have my LLC.
No worries.
Whatever turns you on. Why don't you follow the link and learn a bit. Notice how Xerox itself had to go through a fight to educate people on "photocopying" versus "xeroxing".
You'll find a list of names that used to be trademarks, duly registered or not, and disappeared because of generic use. Good luck on your conspiracy theory quest.
The major threat for a trademark if you do not defend it properly is that it might become a generic word, thus appear in a dictionary and your exclusive rights may not be enforced anymore.
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That is why you have companies like Kleenex who will insist that people refer to their product as "Kleenex facial tissue" rather than simply "kleenex". Once a trademark becomes a common word it is genericized and forever lost.
Examples:
Aspirin in the USA
Bikini
Cola
Granola
Zeppelin
Yo-Yo
More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademar
(Of course, this is also true of cordless phones, but anyone can head to a drug store in a major power outage and buy a $10 AT&T corded phone if they don't already have one. This cannot be done for a VoIP phone, though.)
:)
Would you seriously keep your drugstore open when power goes down?
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today. ... The solution is patenting as much as we can. A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high. Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
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I don't know about you, but by reading this, Bill's intentions become clear from the start. Isn't he instructing his staff to patent as much as they can? Funny how RMS would hide this essential piece of the quote in [...]
True. But I am amazed that the Aluminum/Alzheimer connection is not being made in the mainstream media when 1) the "disease" is endemic and 2) it currently is the only link between people dying from the disease and human generated by products.
Probably too much money at stake.
People barbecuing their veggies in tinfoil simply freak me out..
Whatever, Mr. Moderator.. how can you -1 Overrated when the comment hasn't been moderated at all before you came along?
Great, all we needed was yet another common source of aluminium. Although the Aluminum-Alzheimer link has not been scientifically established, so can be said about cigarettes and cancer, if you ask the tobacco companies..
http://www.alzscot.org/info/aluminium.html
Nah.
But I can arrange SP2...
>Run a small website with the MySQL database? If all >the source to that site is not GPLed, you're in >violation. That's despite the fact that your site >should be a clear and separate product from MySQL.
Not if you don't redistribute your website's code.. Or am I on crack?
They probably did this so Slashdotter don't get hurt! Read a little about the funny P/E calculations in this thread and you'll see how many innocents would get anihilated if the price was artificially brought down by issuing a 10x multiple of shares.
FTA, the 24.6M IPO shares represent only 10% of outstanding Google shares. Your P/E calculations should be multipled by 10.
You forgot to account for the fact that only 10% of outstanding shares are part of this IPO. Your total number of shares is more around 240M and your P/E is in the 100+ range. With this revised information I believe it is safe to say that the stock is overpriced.
This isn't about violating standards. We've been faking caller ids for fun with Asterisk for a while. It does work, however my local (Bell) provider will not let me put one of its own numbers in the bogus CID I pass.
This is a normal "feature" of CID. That's how you can go through a third-party LD provider yet still have your own phone number show up on the recipient's display. Voicepulse or other VOIP providers are not being overly permissive here. If you get a T1 bank you will have the same capability. That's what makes it possible for huge corporations to have thousands of phone lines in hundreds of offices yet display only their main incoming number on your caller id capable phone when someone from their office calls you.
The difference is that now average Joe can fake CID like the big boys used to do with a mere $7/month investment, vs the couple hundred dollars it would cost (plus install fees) if you went with a standard channel bank.
CID is for information purposes only. The problem is that people have grown to trust it as being 100% accurate, but they definitely shouldn't.
Moderators: Please give me a break, aren't you tired of useless stories like this one? Let's do ourselves a favor and kill the virus.
Sorry dude, but you are a moron. One inch equals 2.54cm. Hence a meter is 39.37007874015748031496062992126 inches.
What's the news? Am I supposed to post to slashdot every time I'm wrong in an argument?
Unless this was a "Feel good, meet a dumb slashdotter" story of the week, I just don't see the point.
Your story deserves to be in the Ask Slashdot section.
Stop wasting my time.
1) EFF aggregates list of spam-unfriendly addresses.
2) [...]
3) Profit!
The only problem is that you *will* have another generation of spammers who *will* believe that they can succeed in selling products to this anti-spam community. After all what age group/profession would qualify as the representative majority of the anti-spam movement?
The end result: more porn in your email.
We apologise, but we've pattended the Infinite Loop.
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And it does deserve a stupid answer. Mod me down if you want, but why did the poster need to ask such stupid question? He could have presented the facts like he did and feed the discussion. Why the rethoric questions which leave us all wondering whether life's hardships made him a moron or if he was born that way?
At least I got to troll... why did you get -1? :)
mouahahahahahahhahahahuahahahahahahahahhahahaha
If my memory is correct LodgeNet had their in-room internet service set up in the same exact way in NYC hotels back in 1999.
Until the current owners start selling shares or end up fighting with each other and a few of them use the public's 33% to get control.
In the long run, it will only require 25% of the shares to control a large company like Google. See for yourself how this is done in other big companies.
Don't forget that some of the current owners will want to cash out, and that will make the 33% public shares go even higher.
You guys are SO optimistic it makes me sick.