Anthropogenic (man-made) global Warming: a period beginning around 1875 of moderatly hot weather. Grapes grow in Scottish vineyards, and AGW deniers say it doesn't happen.
The problem is that "micro-transactions" have crept into every aspect of life.
If take the time to add up all your "buck here, buck there" transactions, you may be surprised just how much you spend.
Yeah, yeah. Before there were "micro-payments", people explained away their piracy with the fact that actually buying something was so expensive just to find out that it was too much - if only there was some sort of "micro-transaction" that would allow you to buy the stuff much cheaper. It's a bunch of dishonesty, ultimately, and it's obvious that lots of cheap people aren't convinced that this hipocracy is so terrible..
Fucking stop fooling yourself guys, you pirate because you think free isn't cheap enough, instead you should get money for bothering with other people's work.
-- are markedly different than the slutty little panty flashers and boys in girls pants that get pimped by the recording studios, but to whom no one wants to listen, and thus it can't possibly be that the product sucks... nope -- PIRACY is responsible for the decline in revenue.
So you advocate piracy of those panty flashers, because not only do they not deserve money, but also because nobody listens to them anyway. Yeah, that makes sense.
Or are you actually claiming that at any given time Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King and Jimmie Page together will have as many songs on P2P as e.g. Britney Spears? And that none of the people downloading the BS songs would have bought them if there was no way to get them for free? And that the same goes for the songs for the real musicians?
Well, driving your car is unlikely to damage your computer, smoking is. Oh, and it will also make the inside of your car smelly and sticky and makes it more likely to have an accident.
The fact that lower-end models exist in no way prevents devs from taking advantage of the advanced features of high end phones. If high-end phones are their target market, so be it, and they can make money from sales to those customers.
No all the Android owner has to do is check if his phone is (in that specific regard) advanced enough to run that app - is there an API for that too?
You are of course right - nobody would publish a story the a ridiculous app gets published for Nokias (and blaming Nokia for it of course) - else the media would be full of those stories for over a decade now.
If an ad-subsidized product undercuts the market to the point where everybody else either licenses Apple's patent or leaves the market, what should I buy instead?
Isn't either the Free Market or Open Source supposed to prevent that?
I'll be laughing for a good fifteen minutes when a laser guided missile hits a militia HQ. Or do these nutjobs really think that an actual oppressive government would think a second using that as their first weapon against them?
Anyway, they didn't act against Bush, and all they managed against Obama so far is clearing the shelves of ammo.
Does the US require that a patent need to be brought to use to be kept valid? Quick scan of Wikipedia says that some countries require it, but doesn't list which ones do.
Let me get this straight - you want either Apple or everybody else to do this, instead of either Apple or no one?
How about an application that notices whenever the tcp/ip stack sends out a DNS query to www.somebank.com and puts it's app on the screen over top of your browser? It's a spoof so it looks just like your banking webpage. "Please enter your name and password." Bingo - instant password grabber.
Brilliant notion Apple.
Hey, you know how Apple could get around that easily? Not allow multitasking on the iPhone. Another brilliant move by the jailbreakers.
Let's see: FQ4 2004 Apple sold 836,000 Macintosh units, FQ4 2009 Apples sold 3.05 million Macintosh computers - gee, imagine, they must have relabeled over 2 million iPods to Macs just so nobody notices the Mac is a failure.
Yeah, you are right - Apple popularity on the stock market has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they keep beating the Analysts' expectations for years now, that their growth stays far above Dell's and HP's for years now, nor that they actually bring out new products that have a major impact in their market but also on other industries. None of that.
Considering MS-DOS 1.0 was nothing but an slightly polished version of an home-made port of CP/M to the 8086 Microsoft bought cheaply, which even used the same magic numbers internally as did CP/M - how exactly could it have been better? Because it renamed most commands for the CLI?
Apple has implemented existing ideas in an elegant way, but they're still "me too" products, not original ideas.
Sure, all they did was use smaller hard drives- making the device much less bulky, a better user interface - making it much easier to use, and better marketing - that is targeting ads at people that Rio and the others never had nor would have bothered with.
Right so a (probably exaggerated) 20% increase in efficiency of the vehicles behind.
Mythbusters did a test at 55 mph, where they got 20% at 50 feet distance and 39% at 10 feet, and that with a car driven "by hand", not remote controlled by the leading truck.
And in NASCAR, both cars drafting go faster (even if the following car gets the better deal), so it's unlikely that the truck will have a much lower efficiency, if not actually a better one.
Last but not least: why do people assume that the truck needs to be an "extra" vehicle that wouldn't drive otherwise instead of a regular truck with some extra equipment, with the driver/owner getting some benefit for doing the job (like being allowed to legally go faster than other trucks).
When was the last time you heard a rumor that Microsoft was disabling support for some line of processors on Windows? If some idiot did claim that in a blog post, he would be laughed at.
I can vaguely remember an uproar when some AMP CPUs over a certain frequency wouldn't work in some parts of Windows (SCSI driver?). Turned out that MS in a timing loop used a NOOP version of some complex opcode that took dozens of cycles on Intel CPUs, but AMD had optimized that opcode to run much faster, resulting in a divide by zero or similar.
Because old case law no longer applies? Because it takes 4 or more ruling before a precedent is set? Because you have more recent citations that contradict his?
As the legal expert you're making yourself out to be, you should know better than to ask for an answer you don't already know or don't want to hear.
Sure, all those cases where slavery was considered legal are still valid too.
IOW, if all your examples of "EULA == invalid" are older than 10 years, and all younger cases consider EULAs to be valid - draw your own fucking conclusion whether courts think EULAs are enforceable.
No wait, you already have shown you don't come to a valid conclusion.
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Anthropogenic (man-made) global Warming: a period beginning around 1875 of moderatly hot weather. Grapes grow in Scottish vineyards, and AGW deniers say it doesn't happen.
So any developer that cares about the pirating can make the job a lot harder if they really want by preventing functionality on pirated copies.
Of course if they did, the pirates would still crack it, and actually use their action as an excuse for doing so.
The problem is that "micro-transactions" have crept into every aspect of life.
If take the time to add up all your "buck here, buck there" transactions, you may be surprised just how much you spend.
Yeah, yeah. Before there were "micro-payments", people explained away their piracy with the fact that actually buying something was so expensive just to find out that it was too much - if only there was some sort of "micro-transaction" that would allow you to buy the stuff much cheaper. It's a bunch of dishonesty, ultimately, and it's obvious that lots of cheap people aren't convinced that this hipocracy is so terrible..
Fucking stop fooling yourself guys, you pirate because you think free isn't cheap enough, instead you should get money for bothering with other people's work.
-- are markedly different than the slutty little panty flashers and boys in girls pants that get pimped by the recording studios, but to whom no one wants to listen, and thus it can't possibly be that the product sucks... nope -- PIRACY is responsible for the decline in revenue.
So you advocate piracy of those panty flashers, because not only do they not deserve money, but also because nobody listens to them anyway. Yeah, that makes sense.
Or are you actually claiming that at any given time Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King and Jimmie Page together will have as many songs on P2P as e.g. Britney Spears? And that none of the people downloading the BS songs would have bought them if there was no way to get them for free? And that the same goes for the songs for the real musicians?
Or that 40% of applications are garbage and pirates aren't even willing to take them for free?
You mean that the pirates will actually buy apps, test them, and if they don't like them will just throw them away and not put them on P2P?
So the pirates have an app approval process too.
Well, driving your car is unlikely to damage your computer, smoking is. Oh, and it will also make the inside of your car smelly and sticky and makes it more likely to have an accident.
Did you read the last sentence of GP before replying?
What a relief - so you can't install an app that won't work on your Android. You can still waste your money on it before realizing it, I hope?
The fact that lower-end models exist in no way prevents devs from taking advantage of the advanced features of high end phones. If high-end phones are their target market, so be it, and they can make money from sales to those customers.
No all the Android owner has to do is check if his phone is (in that specific regard) advanced enough to run that app - is there an API for that too?
You are of course right - nobody would publish a story the a ridiculous app gets published for Nokias (and blaming Nokia for it of course) - else the media would be full of those stories for over a decade now.
So we should have stuck to the African plains?
That wouldn't work for long, as we have been told on Slashdot several times in the recent past.
They get a lot of hurricanes in the Netherlands, huh?
No, they get storm floods.
(fortunately some blu ray players don't enforce it)
Such as...?
Doesn't matter - they aren't "real" Blu Ray players, and sooner or later newer discs will not play on them.
You forgot to type "Linux" in ALL-CAPS
Even worse, he forgot to put GNU/ in front of it.
If an ad-subsidized product undercuts the market to the point where everybody else either licenses Apple's patent or leaves the market, what should I buy instead?
Isn't either the Free Market or Open Source supposed to prevent that?
"Apple is evil" and "I'll be moded down for this" - pure Karmawhoring.
Anyway, they didn't act against Bush, and all they managed against Obama so far is clearing the shelves of ammo.
Does the US require that a patent need to be brought to use to be kept valid? Quick scan of Wikipedia says that some countries require it, but doesn't list which ones do.
Let me get this straight - you want either Apple or everybody else to do this, instead of either Apple or no one?
How about an application that notices whenever the tcp/ip stack sends out a DNS query to www.somebank.com and puts it's app on the screen over top of your browser? It's a spoof so it looks just like your banking webpage. "Please enter your name and password." Bingo - instant password grabber.
Brilliant notion Apple.
Hey, you know how Apple could get around that easily? Not allow multitasking on the iPhone. Another brilliant move by the jailbreakers.
Let's see: FQ4 2004 Apple sold 836,000 Macintosh units, FQ4 2009 Apples sold 3.05 million Macintosh computers - gee, imagine, they must have relabeled over 2 million iPods to Macs just so nobody notices the Mac is a failure.
Yeah, you are right - Apple popularity on the stock market has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they keep beating the Analysts' expectations for years now, that their growth stays far above Dell's and HP's for years now, nor that they actually bring out new products that have a major impact in their market but also on other industries. None of that.
Considering MS-DOS 1.0 was nothing but an slightly polished version of an home-made port of CP/M to the 8086 Microsoft bought cheaply, which even used the same magic numbers internally as did CP/M - how exactly could it have been better? Because it renamed most commands for the CLI?
Apple has implemented existing ideas in an elegant way, but they're still "me too" products, not original ideas.
Sure, all they did was use smaller hard drives- making the device much less bulky, a better user interface - making it much easier to use, and better marketing - that is targeting ads at people that Rio and the others never had nor would have bothered with.
Right so a (probably exaggerated) 20% increase in efficiency of the vehicles behind.
Mythbusters did a test at 55 mph, where they got 20% at 50 feet distance and 39% at 10 feet, and that with a car driven "by hand", not remote controlled by the leading truck.
And in NASCAR, both cars drafting go faster (even if the following car gets the better deal), so it's unlikely that the truck will have a much lower efficiency, if not actually a better one.
Last but not least: why do people assume that the truck needs to be an "extra" vehicle that wouldn't drive otherwise instead of a regular truck with some extra equipment, with the driver/owner getting some benefit for doing the job (like being allowed to legally go faster than other trucks).
When was the last time you heard a rumor that Microsoft was disabling support for some line of processors on Windows? If some idiot did claim that in a blog post, he would be laughed at.
I can vaguely remember an uproar when some AMP CPUs over a certain frequency wouldn't work in some parts of Windows (SCSI driver?). Turned out that MS in a timing loop used a NOOP version of some complex opcode that took dozens of cycles on Intel CPUs, but AMD had optimized that opcode to run much faster, resulting in a divide by zero or similar.
Because old case law no longer applies? Because it takes 4 or more ruling before a precedent is set? Because you have more recent citations that contradict his?
As the legal expert you're making yourself out to be, you should know better than to ask for an answer you don't already know or don't want to hear.
Sure, all those cases where slavery was considered legal are still valid too.
IOW, if all your examples of "EULA == invalid" are older than 10 years, and all younger cases consider EULAs to be valid - draw your own fucking conclusion whether courts think EULAs are enforceable.
No wait, you already have shown you don't come to a valid conclusion.