Hey, when you sell more music than Amazon (in the US that is), and about 1 billion titles in the last year, I guess you get by with a few cents a song;-)
Isn't it funny how the Global Warming deniers first derided any predictions on the results of GW as doom-saying, and now claim that because some of them may have been too optimistic (and just pretend the more pessimistic ones never existed) they now have proof that man made greenhous gasses don't play hardly any role in GW?
...but now I have to say it: how many iPhone stories a day are we gonna get on the Slashdot front page, and for how long? This is a hell of a lot of coverage for a mere _phone_ that a) offers no new features not already available on other smartphones, b) is priced mostly out of the market, c) isn't on the market yet, and d) is tied to one carrier. I've been wondering: which smart phone does have a call hold and 3-party-conference feature?
rochlin seems to not have read the license in any meaningful sense. His argument seems to be based on (2.2c) of the APSL
2.2 Modified Code. You may modify Covered Code and use, reproduce, display, perform, internally distribute within Your organization, and Externally Deploy Your Modifications and Covered Code, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, provided that in each instance You also meet all of these conditions:
(a) You must satisfy all the conditions of Section 2.1 with respect to the Source Code of the Covered Code;
(b) You must duplicate, to the extent it does not already exist, the notice in Exhibit A in each file of the Source Code of all Your Modifications, and cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files and the date of any change; and
(c) If You Externally Deploy Your Modifications, You must make Source Code of all Your Externally Deployed Modifications either available to those to whom You have Externally Deployed Your Modifications, or publicly available. Source Code of Your Externally Deployed Modifications must be released under the terms set forth in this License, including the license grants set forth in Section 3 below, for as long as you Externally Deploy the Covered Code or twelve (12) months from the date of initial External Deployment, whichever is longer. You should preferably distribute the Source Code of Your Externally Deployed Modifications electronically (e.g. download from a web site).
Where the hell does it say anybody (including Apple) has to release source code before "External Deployment"?
The UN needs to have no control over the Internet. They have demonstrated time and time again (e.g. Oil-for-Food campaign) that they are incompetent with managing programs.
If TLD's are such an issue, let them have their own DNS system. No one is forcing anyone to use ICANN or even IANA. You are right, the Internet should be in the hands of those who abused the Oil-for-Food program the most - Americans.
Read the good book. Did GOD tell Mosers to buld his arc 140 metears long? No HE did not, it was 300 cubics. Errm, 300 cubits. Every god-fearing American should dump the imperial system NOW.
Ok, a few questions: how big is your dick ? bigger than yours
how much beer do you need to get really drunk ? more than you
what's the speed limit ? too low
All the really important stuff is in imperial.
The iphone trademark was in use by what is now a subsidiary of Cisco long, long, long before Apple even thought of considering using the name.
On a completely unrelated note, Cisco is in no way in danger of losing their trademark in Europe. You don't automatically lose the trademark if you don't use it for five years. Five years is just the minimum time you have to wait before applying for a decision on their trademark revocation. The judge will take one look at the application, note that Cisco is currently using the trademark (IE, it wasn't trademark "parking"), and rule against it. Or the judge will see that the trademark wasn't used until a month ago, and is actually (IP'hone), not (i-Phone).
It seems to me when DRM goes,Apple isn't going to try and stop it. Except in movies, where Jobs (in his Disney/Pixar hat) is extremely protective of his content. I didn't know Apple bought Disney.
OS X isn't a means of getting people to buy Apple computers. Apple computers are a means of getting people to buy OS X. Steve Jobs came from NeXT. NeXT was first and foremost a software company. NeXT was foremost a software company going down the drain if it hadn't been bought by Apple so they could have a new OS running on their hardware. And Apple doesn't seem to be making a lot of money selling OS X either - unless you count the Mac sales.
Development on a cellphone usually means that you have a sandboxed environment, like Java, or that you have a large, stable library like Symbian. J2ME wouldn't look right on this phone, and a immature SDK would lead to unstable, and poor performing, applications.
If the stability of the phone and the cell-network depend on well-behaved applications, then what's the point of running OSX on it? Are they saying that their much-trumpeted OS can't protect the system from misbehaving apps? Are you saying you can't write "misbehaving" apps for Linux?
(The Apple TV is also aimed squarely at the US market also, given that itunes doesn't support video downloads in any other country (and 'a selection of pixar short films' does *not* count) - sensing a pattern here...) The head of Apple Germany has said in (at least) two interview they will start to offer movies and TV shows in 2007.
Everybody thinks this will be a repeat of the mp3 player market - Apple arrives late, but releases a good product with good marketing and becomes a sensation.
Maybe. But phones are not mp3 players. I've heard projections of a billion cellphones to be sold this year. The phones already on the market are already much better designed and marketed than Diamond Multimedia (rest their souls) ever managed with mp3s. There was no mp3 "Razr" on the market when Apple launched the iPod.
You mean the Diamond Multimedia was an even worse design than todays phones?
It's not about tactile response. It's about tactile feel. Being able to hit a five, move you finger to the next button, hit a 6, etc, without having to look. You have to feel the buttons to hit them right? You don't kow how far appart they are, and how much and in which direction you have to move your finger to get from the "2" to the "9"?
err - so the iPhone is gonna have every phone number i'll ever want(tm) in the memory will it? Perhaps i want to phone a number on a business card that i'll rarely use, perhaps i'll see an advert in the paper and wanna call it. The list goes on....
If the business card you are rarely using is in the Adress Book, it's there. If it's not you press te phone icon, you press the keypad icon, you press the numbers. Heck, if you have it in an email you just got, you press the number and it dials. You have it on a web page, dito.
The very same weather bureau predicted that 2006 would be a "record year for hurricanes" -- but instead, there were far fewer hurricanes than average.I live in Alabama, and we've had nights that went down to -9C in December. If the Earth really is warming, how come subtropical regions are having deep freezes? Errm, nope. The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) doesn't do hurricane prediction. That would be the (Global Warming deniers from) the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As for your disability to tell the difference between "local" and "global" - didn't Grover do a skit on that?
The fact that stuff you delete with a keyboard command ends up in the Trash Can, but not in the Recycle Bin, for one.
That's quite funny. The default action for hitting the delete button on a Windows machine will send files to the Recycle Bin. Only if you hit Shift+delete will it permanently delete something. Please expand your horizons a little bit. Must be the magic version of Windows I'm using - or somebody changed the setting without telling me.
Yeah, it's sooo much easier than to download one of the million of "change one of the settings you want to change changer thingies" for MacOS X. Why, was that a double standard I just showed up?
Umm not really. Like I've stated before. I'm using OS X right now and I'm continually looking for the simple programs to do what I need. But if you haven't shut your mind down you would have seen that by now. I'm just saying that the solution you pointed out for a Windows machine that seemed so hard for you, is actually much easier than it seems. It wasn't me who said it was worse with Mac OS X because "I don't want to type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files" (in plain text) opposed to having to edit the Registry with cryptic keys. If you want to pretend you made clear from the start that you didn't actually have to do it, so be it.
That's not what I said at all. And in fact I don't think you know what you just said. OS X and Windows share a lot of good ideas and most come from they both support global shortcut keys. Btw the close window command on windows are ctrl-f4 and alt-f4 depending if you just want the window or the application to close. Or ctrl-w or "e","x","i","t",enter - why the fuck can't you just quit command? And IIRC there are more in some obscure apps.
Slashdot Mirror
Movies made on Games made on mixing two movies? - Alien vs. Predator (okay, that started as a comic)
Hey, when you sell more music than Amazon (in the US that is), and about 1 billion titles in the last year, I guess you get by with a few cents a song ;-)
Isn't it funny how the Global Warming deniers first derided any predictions on the results of GW as doom-saying, and now claim that because some of them may have been too optimistic (and just pretend the more pessimistic ones never existed) they now have proof that man made greenhous gasses don't play hardly any role in GW?
So if you are so scared about the TPM chip, buy a new Mac, because they are no longer in them .
...but now I have to say it: how many iPhone stories a day are we gonna get on the Slashdot front page, and for how long? This is a hell of a lot of coverage for a mere _phone_ that a) offers no new features not already available on other smartphones, b) is priced mostly out of the market, c) isn't on the market yet, and d) is tied to one carrier. I've been wondering: which smart phone does have a call hold and 3-party-conference feature?If TLD's are such an issue, let them have their own DNS system. No one is forcing anyone to use ICANN or even IANA. You are right, the Internet should be in the hands of those who abused the Oil-for-Food program the most - Americans.
Apple - Sued by Apple records
Unix - Sued by Open Group
iPhone - Sued by Cisco
idiot - sued by you.
how big is your dick ? bigger than yours how much beer do you need to get really drunk ? more than you
what's the speed limit ?
too low
All the really important stuff is in imperial.
Nope, relative.
On a completely unrelated note, Cisco is in no way in danger of losing their trademark in Europe. You don't automatically lose the trademark if you don't use it for five years. Five years is just the minimum time you have to wait before applying for a decision on their trademark revocation. The judge will take one look at the application, note that Cisco is currently using the trademark (IE, it wasn't trademark "parking"), and rule against it. Or the judge will see that the trademark wasn't used until a month ago, and is actually (IP'hone), not (i-Phone).
If the stability of the phone and the cell-network depend on well-behaved applications, then what's the point of running OSX on it? Are they saying that their much-trumpeted OS can't protect the system from misbehaving apps? Are you saying you can't write "misbehaving" apps for Linux?
The head of Apple Germany has said in (at least) two interview they will start to offer movies and TV shows in 2007.
Maybe. But phones are not mp3 players. I've heard projections of a billion cellphones to be sold this year. The phones already on the market are already much better designed and marketed than Diamond Multimedia (rest their souls) ever managed with mp3s. There was no mp3 "Razr" on the market when Apple launched the iPod.
You mean the Diamond Multimedia was an even worse design than todays phones?err - so the iPhone is gonna have every phone number i'll ever want(tm) in the memory will it? Perhaps i want to phone a number on a business card that i'll rarely use, perhaps i'll see an advert in the paper and wanna call it. The list goes on....
If the business card you are rarely using is in the Adress Book, it's there. If it's not you press te phone icon, you press the keypad icon, you press the numbers. Heck, if you have it in an email you just got, you press the number and it dials. You have it on a web page, dito.
This may come as a shock to you, but you ar a suspect in every single crime commited - for about a millisecond. Maybe even longer.
I have a hunch they are going to sift through the porn collection also.
That's quite funny. The default action for hitting the delete button on a Windows machine will send files to the Recycle Bin. Only if you hit Shift+delete will it permanently delete something. Please expand your horizons a little bit.
Must be the magic version of Windows I'm using - or somebody changed the setting without telling me.
Umm not really. Like I've stated before. I'm using OS X right now and I'm continually looking for the simple programs to do what I need. But if you haven't shut your mind down you would have seen that by now. I'm just saying that the solution you pointed out for a Windows machine that seemed so hard for you, is actually much easier than it seems.
It wasn't me who said it was worse with Mac OS X because "I don't want to type a million things into a console (and have to remember all the options myself) or write into configuration files" (in plain text) opposed to having to edit the Registry with cryptic keys. If you want to pretend you made clear from the start that you didn't actually have to do it, so be it. That's not what I said at all. And in fact I don't think you know what you just said. OS X and Windows share a lot of good ideas and most come from they both support global shortcut keys. Btw the close window command on windows are ctrl-f4 and alt-f4 depending if you just want the window or the application to close. Or ctrl-w or "e","x","i","t",enter - why the fuck can't you just quit command? And IIRC there are more in some obscure apps.