Yes, all the undocumented apis and annoying workarounds of the web, now in your desktop app!
Was talking to a guy the other day who said he was once going to write an xml/css/javascript rendering engine for wxWidgets. So the same app could run on your desktop or through a web browser and you never have to deal with web 2.0 crap.
e-books are kinda valuable to libraries in the third world where care and maintenance of computers is easier than care and maintenance of thousands of books.
Umm, dude, you're still not getting it. They sold out both online and in stores. The most likely reason that Wal-Mart is pulling these from the store is that they are getting too much interest and tying up staff. Customer service is suffering as a result. If Wal-Mart hires more staff that will increase the cost of the product and may decrease the demand, resulting in an elastic effect on sales.. so it is easier to pull the product from stores and require customers to buy it online where they won't be tying up customer service agents.
Ok, Mr smart guy, please explain how you find people who want this job and have an extensive knowledge of consumer electronics.. how do you retain them? What makes you think they are not going to just leave the moment they gain this extensive knowledge and get a better job?
Seriously.. it's really easy to say "the guy who screens electronic devices should know something about electronic devices" but how exactly do you make that a reality rather than a random wish?
Umm.. they're given a bunch of rules that they have to follow. It's not like they are bomb experts. If they were they would be working a higher paid job. This doesn't mean they are idiots. It doesn't even mean they are ignorant, unless you want to compare them to said bomb experts, in which case every one of us who isn't a bomb expert is ignorant.
One of the rules happens to be: separate laptops from other electronic devices. So what makes it a laptop and what makes it a "dvd player"? The keyboard? You can't see the keyboard until you open it.
Another rule happens to be: don't open electronic devices unless a secondary inspection is warranted.
And there's a bunch of other rules to decided if a secondary inspection is warranted.
They're just trying to do their job. It's a joke what the experts tell them but they are the experts so if you want to blame anyone, blame them.
Besides that, it seems they were confused as to which set of procedures they had to apply to it. Is it a laptop or is it an "electronic device".. Seems the definition of a laptop included a hard drive.
1. there are no criminal copyright laws in Australia.. only the pathetic "especially egregious acts" wording in the Copyright Act which claims criminal prosecution may be possible. 2. way to set up the seppos and the limeys for a "wasn't it started as a prison colony" joke.
Let's say one person in ten buys music legally, and only half of those like the Beatles - one in twenty overall. Huh? one person in ten, what, in the whole world? are you honestly trying to suggest that 660,222,417 people "buy music legally". Do you mean online? Or do you just mean they buy CDs? Cause I honestly think you would have trouble finding 10% of the population of the USA who have bought a CD this year, let alone bought music online, let alone all the people in the rest of the world.
The vast majority of people on this planet are not customers of the music industry.
The copyright on the score, etc, will not expire for another 100 years.. Assuming McCartney dies soon.
Of course, if you believe McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced with a look-alike, then I guess the clock started in 1980.
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Parachute eh? Why not just wait until there's an airshow at Holloman airforce base, which is right next door, and drive over to White Sands.. it's not like they have any real border security between the two. I know because I nearly accidentally drove the wrong way into White Sands last time I was at Holloman.. thankfully they do put up a nice big sign saying "WARNING: rockets being tested".
Yeah, like rich people who get their 'people' to pay shop keepers to look the other way while the lady does some shoplifting for the giddy thrill of it.
Robots are capable of posting on Slashdot 24 hours a day.. they don't need sleep, and most of what they say is more insightful than the average Slashdot user.
Sorry, infringing the copyright on a work that is given away for free precludes 4. The nature of the copyrighted work is that it is trivial and has about a $20 value.. and that's if you were to hire an american to create it.. in china it has about a $1 value. So 1 is the only thing that works in the author's favor.. and in a Chinese court the case would be thrown out.
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Dude, he's already admitted he didn't RTFA.. please RTETBP.
Yes, all the undocumented apis and annoying workarounds of the web, now in your desktop app!
Was talking to a guy the other day who said he was once going to write an xml/css/javascript rendering engine for wxWidgets. So the same app could run on your desktop or through a web browser and you never have to deal with web 2.0 crap.
Clearly you didn't RTFA as you would have seen they are not "cars". They are more like golf buggies.
So your entire comment is stupid.
RTFA.
RTFA.
cost != value.
Hehe, $50k eh. That's about 2000 man hours. Ohloh estimates the cost of the Linux project at $172,788,619.
e-books are kinda valuable to libraries in the third world where care and maintenance of computers is easier than care and maintenance of thousands of books.
I suppose EEPC's are not flying off the shelf and are being returned in record numbers too.
It's pretty simple, if you have no evidence, STFU.
you can't find a reference because it is FUD and you know it.
Umm, dude, you're still not getting it. They sold out both online and in stores. The most likely reason that Wal-Mart is pulling these from the store is that they are getting too much interest and tying up staff. Customer service is suffering as a result. If Wal-Mart hires more staff that will increase the cost of the product and may decrease the demand, resulting in an elastic effect on sales.. so it is easier to pull the product from stores and require customers to buy it online where they won't be tying up customer service agents.
As in, customers are not pestering the staff to explain to them why this computer is so cheap.. they have to do their own research.
Ok, Mr smart guy, please explain how you find people who want this job and have an extensive knowledge of consumer electronics.. how do you retain them? What makes you think they are not going to just leave the moment they gain this extensive knowledge and get a better job?
Seriously.. it's really easy to say "the guy who screens electronic devices should know something about electronic devices" but how exactly do you make that a reality rather than a random wish?
Umm.. they're given a bunch of rules that they have to follow. It's not like they are bomb experts. If they were they would be working a higher paid job. This doesn't mean they are idiots. It doesn't even mean they are ignorant, unless you want to compare them to said bomb experts, in which case every one of us who isn't a bomb expert is ignorant.
One of the rules happens to be: separate laptops from other electronic devices. So what makes it a laptop and what makes it a "dvd player"? The keyboard? You can't see the keyboard until you open it.
Another rule happens to be: don't open electronic devices unless a secondary inspection is warranted.
And there's a bunch of other rules to decided if a secondary inspection is warranted.
They're just trying to do their job. It's a joke what the experts tell them but they are the experts so if you want to blame anyone, blame them.
Besides that, it seems they were confused as to which set of procedures they had to apply to it. Is it a laptop or is it an "electronic device".. Seems the definition of a laptop included a hard drive.
1. there are no criminal copyright laws in Australia.. only the pathetic "especially egregious acts" wording in the Copyright Act which claims criminal prosecution may be possible.
2. way to set up the seppos and the limeys for a "wasn't it started as a prison colony" joke.
The vast majority of people on this planet are not customers of the music industry.
In 2013 the sound recording copyrights expire..
Then there will be a total legal snafu.
The copyright on the score, etc, will not expire for another 100 years.. Assuming McCartney dies soon.
Of course, if you believe McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced with a look-alike, then I guess the clock started in 1980.
Parachute eh? Why not just wait until there's an airshow at Holloman airforce base, which is right next door, and drive over to White Sands.. it's not like they have any real border security between the two. I know because I nearly accidentally drove the wrong way into White Sands last time I was at Holloman.. thankfully they do put up a nice big sign saying "WARNING: rockets being tested".
He's talking about playing at being criminal instead of actually being one.
Yeah, like rich people who get their 'people' to pay shop keepers to look the other way while the lady does some shoplifting for the giddy thrill of it.
Robots are capable of posting on Slashdot 24 hours a day.. they don't need sleep, and most of what they say is more insightful than the average Slashdot user.
Sorry, infringing the copyright on a work that is given away for free precludes 4. The nature of the copyrighted work is that it is trivial and has about a $20 value.. and that's if you were to hire an american to create it.. in china it has about a $1 value. So 1 is the only thing that works in the author's favor.. and in a Chinese court the case would be thrown out.
Like what? What are you talking about? If you want to have a conversation, state your freakin' opinion already.
They're standard flash fonts.. and maybe you should read the entire thread before posting.
Seeing as I'm replying to myself here, let's make it 3 for 3.
The original work is 353,472 bytes. The copied material is:
icecube 758 bytes
cloud 3464 bytes
splash sound 5423 bytes
bell sound 1783 bytes
poof sound 1783 bytes
bling sound 1783 bytes
song 42967 bytes
total 57961 bytes
Which is 16% of the original work, and the majority of that is the song which was used in neither the original work, nor the derivative..
In any case, this is small enough to be considered fair use.
Wow. Ya know, is it too much to ask that people read the entire thread before posting?
This is like "posting on the Internet 101" stuff here.