With a nick like that, it sounds like you could use one of those cases! If you can't afford it, then I think everyone here has a moral obligation to chip in:)
If this is a so-called "design patent," then it isn't a big deal. It would be a patent on a specific design and layout, not the underlying concepts of a music player, which can be implemented in many ways. I believe they have a design patent on their trash can icon, as well. Again, not a patent on the idea of a trash can, but one specific design (a metal wire basket in OS X).
I would like to second the nomination for Andromeda...it's a $35 PHP script that you stick in your/var/www directory and works great. IMO, it just edges out GnuMP3d in terms of quality.
Since you would like to access your collection from a remote location, you should note that Andromeda gives you the ability to add username/password protection.
I don't think it's been mentioned here yet, but you should make sure that access to your collection is locked down and restricted so no one else can get into it, lest you would like to fund the coke habit of an RIAA executive. Here are a couple things you can do to restrict access to your music collection (assuming the use of Andromeda & Apache):
1. Enable Andromeda's username/password option. 2. Only allow access to your Apache server from the networks that you use. ie, the IP address of your school, office, etc.
The last item is what I do:
3. Close off port 80 on your firewall/NAT; turn on SSHd on your server and open up port 22 on your firewall/NAT. Install a Squid proxy on your home server. Then, while at school/work/etc. use PuTTY (for Windows) or SSH (*nix) to create an encrypted tunnel to your home server. You'll also get the added bonus of encrypted surfing from your remote location.
"Having a corporation submit ideas, and those ideas be taken seriously is a sure sign of failure in the philosophy and general design of the Linux operating system."
Please come back when you're running a custom kernel with *zero* code submitted by Red Hat, Suse, IBM or any other corporation. Otherwise, you're philosophically fapping.
You're comparing apples to organges. By that person's logic, it actually OK to broadcast snuff films. However, the action that goes into making such a film (namely, killing someone) is an illegal act before the fact. Keep in mind that you already can watch broadcasts where people are doing illegal things (high speed chases, etc.).
By your logic, the United States of America is illegal and we owe a shit load of back taxes to the Queen. Laws are made by men...who are no more noble or trustworthy than anyone else.
So I take it you keep their heads in the sand about all the wars and bloody conflicts around the world, and protect them from violent professional sports, some of which whose players are even more dangerous off the field?
The FCC should handle the allotment of the EM spectrum to licensees-period, much like the local transportation department maintains all the traffic lights. Nothing more, nothing less.
Commercial software like TiVo screams for running on standardized, known, good, tested hardware. Their business model would be even crazier trying to support some of the obscure shit people would scrounge together.
I used my USB Logitech Mouseman Traveller (3 buttons + scroll) quite a bit when I bought my iBook out of fear, but I eventually found the trackpad to much more usable (except for FPS games of course). I only use the USB mouse for my Inspiron 8200 notebook now. The trackpad on my Dell is no where near the quality of the iBook's trackpad.
The thing that lots of people don't realize is that you really don't need more than 1 mouse button when using a Mac, because the programs are oriented around 1 button. Command-click is the closest thing to a right-click and works perfectly with the flow of things since your left hand is already on the keyboard. The Mac interface is all about the Command button first, and the pointing interface second...IMO anyway.
Keep in mind that on a Mac (OS X or pre OS X), which is geared toward ease of use, the hard drive is represented by....drumroll....a picture of an internal hard drive! There is no concept of "My Computer" on a Mac. The hard drive icon sits on the desktop and when you open it up, your files and folders are there. I guess they like to be straightforward with the interface, rather than introduce too much abstraction.
You can even get a satellite dish if you live in an apartment complex according to the FCC rule that others are mentioning. Almost everyone in my apartment with the right exposure has a mini-dish. Myself...there's a brick wall in the way:(
Peet's was the ORIGINAL Starbucks, quite literally! Here is their missing history that no longer shows up in their newer annual reports (this is from the 2001 10-K Filing with the SEC):
"We started as Starbuck's Coffee Company, a Washington corporation, in 1971. By the 1980s, we owned and operated several retail stores and a coffee roasting plant in Seattle. In 1984, we purchased Peet's Coffee and Tea, Inc., the successor to Alfred Peet's business, from Sal Bonavita, who purchased the business from Alfred Peet in 1979. To consolidate our operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, we sold our Seattle-based assets, including the Starbuck's brand, the roasting plant and several retail stores, to Il Giornale Coffee Company in 1987 and shifted our focus to Peet's."
There's a couple cereals here in the US (Post or General Mills?) that are including a DVD with a TV show, to promote how you can now buy the entire season on DVD. The two that I remember seeing are Barney Miller and Mad About You.
I'm waiting for the day you can get a flat screen TV on the back of a cereal box, a la "The Jetsons!"
"With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing."
If the manufacturers spent millions of dollars designing parts and *didn't* get patents on those parts, then it's their own damn fault...and they have also failed their shareholders.
If they had patented their expensively-designed parts, they would have zero problems with opening the specs for third-party repair shops and could still prevent third-party replica parts.
You can make bit-for-bit copies of any DVD now, complete with all the encryption on it. And the laws preventing the distribution of those DVDs (normal copyright law) has been on the books for a long, long time. If you follow the money, the bottom line is that the CSS and region codes on a DVD only help to support cartel price-fixing profits.
Wrong, your mugger/robber/raper will have a picture of himself, as well as the whole damn camera and now knowledge of your daily go-abouts and schedule.
While spam benefits spammers, it steals man-hours and network resources from companies who would rather put their personnel and equipment to more productive (and profitable uses). Spam is the collect call that you're forced to accept.
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With a nick like that, it sounds like you could use one of those cases! If you can't afford it, then I think everyone here has a moral obligation to chip in :)
Not only are they taxed, but they actually cost a good chunk of change in the first place. Problem solved!
Don't forget getting high :)
If this is a so-called "design patent," then it isn't a big deal. It would be a patent on a specific design and layout, not the underlying concepts of a music player, which can be implemented in many ways. I believe they have a design patent on their trash can icon, as well. Again, not a patent on the idea of a trash can, but one specific design (a metal wire basket in OS X).
Hopefully we will...in November!
An interesting corollary to your statement is that this "certain class" is already living in your town, they're just not gambling there.
I would like to second the nomination for Andromeda...it's a $35 PHP script that you stick in your /var/www directory and works great. IMO, it just edges out GnuMP3d in terms of quality.
Since you would like to access your collection from a remote location, you should note that Andromeda gives you the ability to add username/password protection.
I don't think it's been mentioned here yet, but you should make sure that access to your collection is locked down and restricted so no one else can get into it, lest you would like to fund the coke habit of an RIAA executive. Here are a couple things you can do to restrict access to your music collection (assuming the use of Andromeda & Apache):
1. Enable Andromeda's username/password option.
2. Only allow access to your Apache server from the networks that you use. ie, the IP address of your school, office, etc.
The last item is what I do:
3. Close off port 80 on your firewall/NAT; turn on SSHd on your server and open up port 22 on your firewall/NAT. Install a Squid proxy on your home server. Then, while at school/work/etc. use PuTTY (for Windows) or SSH (*nix) to create an encrypted tunnel to your home server. You'll also get the added bonus of encrypted surfing from your remote location.
I believe the ruling means that local govts. cannot start their own services. You can still share your connection or start up a neighborhood co-op.
"Having a corporation submit ideas, and those ideas be taken seriously is a sure sign of failure in the philosophy and general design of the Linux operating system."
Please come back when you're running a custom kernel with *zero* code submitted by Red Hat, Suse, IBM or any other corporation. Otherwise, you're philosophically fapping.
You're comparing apples to organges. By that person's logic, it actually OK to broadcast snuff films. However, the action that goes into making such a film (namely, killing someone) is an illegal act before the fact. Keep in mind that you already can watch broadcasts where people are doing illegal things (high speed chases, etc.).
"As long as it is a law, follow it."
By your logic, the United States of America is illegal and we owe a shit load of back taxes to the Queen. Laws are made by men...who are no more noble or trustworthy than anyone else.
So I take it you keep their heads in the sand about all the wars and bloody conflicts around the world, and protect them from violent professional sports, some of which whose players are even more dangerous off the field?
The FCC should handle the allotment of the EM spectrum to licensees-period, much like the local transportation department maintains all the traffic lights. Nothing more, nothing less.
Commercial software like TiVo screams for running on standardized, known, good, tested hardware. Their business model would be even crazier trying to support some of the obscure shit people would scrounge together.
I used my USB Logitech Mouseman Traveller (3 buttons + scroll) quite a bit when I bought my iBook out of fear, but I eventually found the trackpad to much more usable (except for FPS games of course). I only use the USB mouse for my Inspiron 8200 notebook now. The trackpad on my Dell is no where near the quality of the iBook's trackpad.
The thing that lots of people don't realize is that you really don't need more than 1 mouse button when using a Mac, because the programs are oriented around 1 button. Command-click is the closest thing to a right-click and works perfectly with the flow of things since your left hand is already on the keyboard. The Mac interface is all about the Command button first, and the pointing interface second...IMO anyway.
Keep in mind that on a Mac (OS X or pre OS X), which is geared toward ease of use, the hard drive is represented by....drumroll....a picture of an internal hard drive! There is no concept of "My Computer" on a Mac. The hard drive icon sits on the desktop and when you open it up, your files and folders are there. I guess they like to be straightforward with the interface, rather than introduce too much abstraction.
You can even get a satellite dish if you live in an apartment complex according to the FCC rule that others are mentioning. Almost everyone in my apartment with the right exposure has a mini-dish. Myself...there's a brick wall in the way :(
Peet's was the ORIGINAL Starbucks, quite literally! Here is their missing history that no longer shows up in their newer annual reports (this is from the 2001 10-K Filing with the SEC):
"We started as Starbuck's Coffee Company, a Washington corporation, in 1971. By the 1980s, we owned and operated several retail stores and a coffee roasting plant in Seattle. In 1984, we purchased Peet's Coffee and Tea, Inc., the
successor to Alfred Peet's business, from Sal Bonavita, who purchased the business from Alfred Peet in 1979. To consolidate our operations in the San Francisco Bay Area, we sold our Seattle-based assets, including the Starbuck's
brand, the roasting plant and several retail stores, to Il Giornale Coffee Company in 1987 and shifted our focus to Peet's."
There's a couple cereals here in the US (Post or General Mills?) that are including a DVD with a TV show, to promote how you can now buy the entire season on DVD. The two that I remember seeing are Barney Miller and Mad About You.
I'm waiting for the day you can get a flat screen TV on the back of a cereal box, a la "The Jetsons!"
"With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing."
If the manufacturers spent millions of dollars designing parts and *didn't* get patents on those parts, then it's their own damn fault...and they have also failed their shareholders.
If they had patented their expensively-designed parts, they would have zero problems with opening the specs for third-party repair shops and could still prevent third-party replica parts.
You can make bit-for-bit copies of any DVD now, complete with all the encryption on it. And the laws preventing the distribution of those DVDs (normal copyright law) has been on the books for a long, long time. If you follow the money, the bottom line is that the CSS and region codes on a DVD only help to support cartel price-fixing profits.
Wrong, your mugger/robber/raper will have a picture of himself, as well as the whole damn camera and now knowledge of your daily go-abouts and schedule.
No way...
Liberty City = New York City. Big chunks of the roads in the game remind me of similar streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Vice City = Perhaps you're too young to remember Miami Vice???
I heard "Soviets" no longer exist, either!
While spam benefits spammers, it steals man-hours and network resources from companies who would rather put their personnel and equipment to more productive (and profitable uses). Spam is the collect call that you're forced to accept.
"Some people will always prefer De Beers's conflict diamonds,..."
Please, call them by their proper name....blood diamonds. Nothing more, nothing else.