... Apple might be able to block him from developing any such thing. After all, he has been "contaminated" by getting access to the SDK, which may arguably give him an unfair advantage into developing an iTunes compatible standalone app...
But then, Apple would never sink to using such underhanded tactics.... Would they?
So let me get this straight...
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For the first 14 years of release, the content industry would actually be able to leaglly force me not to read a book aloud? (If you recall this is one of the looney rules they have been trying to make fly with eBooks.) I don't really see how this is fair at all, especially given that 90% of attempted use of such material happens within a few years of its release.
So what do these patents cover? Neither this CNet story, nor any linked off of it gave any indications to SCO's actual claims of what IP of theirs is being infringed upon.
The problem in this case, is that the rules are not the same for Microsoft, because of their unique market position (a monopoly on desktop OSes).
Had Apple held such a monopoly, many of its practices would cause just as much, if not more, of an uporar as the ones MS got in trouble for. Think about it: they bundle all sorts of software "as part of the OS", and they have repeatedly cracked down hard on clone and part makers trying to enter their niche market.
So, I say the actions of MS and Apple are pretty much the same. Only in the case of MS, these actions get defined as illegal, while for Apple they are merely low, dirty and unethical. But don't you think that sort of hair splitting should be left up to the lawyers?
Verisign also stated that with the return of the Network Solutions brand, customers can expect a comeback of some of the special services that NetSol was so famous for.
Among them are the hassle-free domain transfer as well as the "helpful and targeted" informational mailing sent out on the daily basis to thousands of small site operators by their "trusted partners".
I doubt the reason is Google's branching out into news/catalogs/etc. All these additional services Google is providing, are nothing but new ways of searching through others' content. None of it is google-branded content, which could have been seen by Yahoo as competition.
A more likely reason is probably economical. Google *IS* top dog of the search engine world, and as such it may have been asking for more money than Yahoo was prepared to pay. Remember, Yahoo's main draw is not its web-wide search engine, but its highly moderated Web directory.
As such, it may make sense for them to make a one-off purchase of inktomi, and save themselves the cost of continual lisencing of Google's results.
Yahoo's strength is the reputation of its directory.
As far as the directory is concerned, Yahoo is still king of the hill. DMoz is great, but Yahoo's directory is more exclusive, and harder to get into. Which means that if a link is in Yahoo, it's got a very high chance of being a quality site.
And search results get shown whenever nothing is found in the directory that matches the user's search. In other words, anyone coming to Yahoo for the directory may stay for the search.
I know that my google-listed site gets about as much traffic from Yahoo-ed searches as it does directly from Google. Plus Yahoo shows 20 results per page, so more results are on the ever-important "first page".
I know I will be sorry to see Yahoo move to Inktomi.
And it's not even the point. Even if all of Brin's criticisms are true, accusing Lord of the Rings of being "backwards" is much like accusing CNN of stifling imagination and creativeness for only showing stuff that actually happened. (Let's not get sidetracked with a debate about trustworthiness of CNN here, I think you all know what I mean.) The book (LotR) is written in a specific style, and accusing the author of using this style is fairly silly. If traditional mythology is not what mr. Brin needs in this day and age, he will do us all a great service by refraining from reading fantasy. (Here's a tip, David: fantasy is about wizards and dragons and things.)
Look at the latest crop of articles knocking LotRas "backwards looking" and "anti progress". Come on people. It's a FAIRY TALE. An engrossing one, and rich with detail, history and colorful characters, but a fairy tale non the less... Tolkien himself cautioned his readers not to take it as a work of social commentary.
Is it really a fairy tale's obligation to address the wrongs in society, and to ensure that humanity continues its technological progress? Must a story really be "forward thinking" in order to have any redeeming values?
Are you kidding me? Since when is a game where you play an italian plumber out to eat magic mushrooms in a world that even Dali on an LSD trip would be hard pressed to come up with considered a "kids" game?
While these three questions may not cover all the conceivable situations, they probably take into account about 90% of the cases you can run up against (with the notable exception of the "link-only" option)
I wonder however, if people may shy away from this great resource simply because it lacks the exposure and "clout" of the GPL? That would truly be a unfortunate outcome.
... planned this winter in the greater NYC area, where the mechanized rodents are going to be used to supplant the city subways' aging rat population.
"The critters just aren't as lively as they used to be," said a resident of the 34th street station who declined to give his name. It's about time they found some replacements.
A spokesman for the MTA said that if the robotic rats were proven successful in the testing stages, other metropolitan areas would make the switch in the year to come.
"We really expect these robotic rats to perform." he said. "They don't produce as much waste, and can draw power directly from the third rail."
When asked about the comparatively high price of the robotic rats as compared to the freely available conventional ones, the official claimed that while the organic rats were free to aquire, the Total Cost of Onership was much higher, given the cleanup and maintenance costs.
"You know, these robotic rats, they will never unionize, and we will not have any unrest among their ranks. Overall, we think this switch will reduce our rat-related expenditures by up to 40% over the next few years."
Is this some sort of a MS tradition?
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I really think this is what MS staffers do for fun at the Halloween party! They probably draw straws, and the one to draw the shortest one has to write up the "leaked strategy memo on Linux" for the year!
I simply meant that if our day to day work became similar to orchestra conductor-like motions that Tom Cruise went through in Minority Report, then our work-related injuries would affect more than just our wrists.
Can we mount this technology on a glove? If so, then coupled with these smart screens from earlier today, we really *could* get a setup like in Minority Report.
That would look really cool, but imagine the carpal tunnel syndrome your shoulders/elbows would develop:)
As you seem to have some knoweledge of the product, perhaps you can answer this:
In the era when 17" displays are standard fare for consimers, and 19" are preffered for proffessionals, is there a reason that the prototype was only a 15" panel? It seems like they would have gone for a 17" were they able to achieve this. Is there anything inherent in the technology used that makes creating larger sized panels exceedingly difficult?
"Bob Novak, most known for his role on CNN's talk show "Crossfire", has announced that he is suing Robert Novak or PertWearhouse.com for copyright infingement, and trading on the good will of Mr. Novak's name.
'The amount of hate mail I get has virtually trippled in the last year,' Mr. Novak said in a statement to the press, 'this has got to stop.'.
The damages in the suit are unspecified yet, but mr Novak's lawyers have stated that one of the remedies they will seek is that Mr. Novak no 2 have his name legally changed to something less confusing. They alledge that he changed his name to "Robert Novak" in 1996, just as Bob Novak was gaining prominence for his appearances on CNN.
'We have received reports that his name before that was "Roberto Perdikakis"' a representative of mr. Novak's said Wednesday morning.
Well, sony lets you flip the keyboard under the screen, and use their clie as a traditional PDA. Which is good. Now if only you could swivel it so that both the keyboard and the screen are horisontal, you could have a very decent portable SSH device, an administrator's wet dream.
This reminds me of the show they had last year called "Frontier House", where a family was put onto a 19th century homestead to see how they'd do. On hone hand that show proved very interesting, but on the other, the way it was made kind of emphasized scandal, and played down achievements of the more successfull family. I hope this doesn't happen with the new show, since PBS seems to be venturing into traditional network TV territory with these reality series, and I hope they don't sink to trash TV level while doing it.
If they renamed the product, they couldn't easily get away with starting from version 7, now could they.
This way, they have a shot at someone saying "You're still running IE 6??? I just got netscape 7, so mine's better than yours!"
(I mean face it, it's this sort of people that creative product naming exists for in the first place)
Re:Cost of media vs. "cost" of piracy
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The really interesting question, which is not covered by the article, is wether all the CDs of let's say Office 2004 will be encoded with the same key. If so, then the scheme becomes incredibly silly, since people will start forums where such keys will be traded much like today serial numbers are.
If each legitimate copy of the CD has a different key associated with it, then the industry will have to overhaul its replication practices - you can no longer use one master to quickly stamp out all the CDs you need. You have to encode each one individually with its key, which would take a significantly larger amount of time.
A compromise would be to split the whole set of CDs into 10 - 20 subsets, each encoded with a different key. This way they can still sncode thousands of discs off of one copy, but chances are you and the next guy wouldn't have the same key.
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The public has the right to know.
But then, Apple would never sink to using such underhanded tactics.... Would they?
For the first 14 years of release, the content industry would actually be able to leaglly force me not to read a book aloud? (If you recall this is one of the looney rules they have been trying to make fly with eBooks.) I don't really see how this is fair at all, especially given that 90% of attempted use of such material happens within a few years of its release.
So what do these patents cover? Neither this CNet story, nor any linked off of it gave any indications to SCO's actual claims of what IP of theirs is being infringed upon.
The problem in this case, is that the rules are not the same for Microsoft, because of their unique market position (a monopoly on desktop OSes).
Had Apple held such a monopoly, many of its practices would cause just as much, if not more, of an uporar as the ones MS got in trouble for. Think about it: they bundle all sorts of software "as part of the OS", and they have repeatedly cracked down hard on clone and part makers trying to enter their niche market.
So, I say the actions of MS and Apple are pretty much the same. Only in the case of MS, these actions get defined as illegal, while for Apple they are merely low, dirty and unethical. But don't you think that sort of hair splitting should be left up to the lawyers?
Among them are the hassle-free domain transfer as well as the "helpful and targeted" informational mailing sent out on the daily basis to thousands of small site operators by their "trusted partners".
Well... DUH... Did you see the name on the box?
A more likely reason is probably economical. Google *IS* top dog of the search engine world, and as such it may have been asking for more money than Yahoo was prepared to pay. Remember, Yahoo's main draw is not its web-wide search engine, but its highly moderated Web directory.
As such, it may make sense for them to make a one-off purchase of inktomi, and save themselves the cost of continual lisencing of Google's results.
And search results get shown whenever nothing is found in the directory that matches the user's search. In other words, anyone coming to Yahoo for the directory may stay for the search.
I know that my google-listed site gets about as much traffic from Yahoo-ed searches as it does directly from Google. Plus Yahoo shows 20 results per page, so more results are on the ever-important "first page".
I know I will be sorry to see Yahoo move to Inktomi.
Is it really a fairy tale's obligation to address the wrongs in society, and to ensure that humanity continues its technological progress? Must a story really be "forward thinking" in order to have any redeeming values?
I wonder however, if people may shy away from this great resource simply because it lacks the exposure and "clout" of the GPL? That would truly be a unfortunate outcome.
"The critters just aren't as lively as they used to be," said a resident of the 34th street station who declined to give his name. It's about time they found some replacements.
A spokesman for the MTA said that if the robotic rats were proven successful in the testing stages, other metropolitan areas would make the switch in the year to come.
"We really expect these robotic rats to perform." he said. "They don't produce as much waste, and can draw power directly from the third rail."
When asked about the comparatively high price of the robotic rats as compared to the freely available conventional ones, the official claimed that while the organic rats were free to aquire, the Total Cost of Onership was much higher, given the cleanup and maintenance costs.
"You know, these robotic rats, they will never unionize, and we will not have any unrest among their ranks. Overall, we think this switch will reduce our rat-related expenditures by up to 40% over the next few years."
Has there really been 7 of these things already?
I simply meant that if our day to day work became similar to orchestra conductor-like motions that Tom Cruise went through in Minority Report, then our work-related injuries would affect more than just our wrists.
That would look really cool, but imagine the carpal tunnel syndrome your shoulders/elbows would develop :)
In the era when 17" displays are standard fare for consimers, and 19" are preffered for proffessionals, is there a reason that the prototype was only a 15" panel? It seems like they would have gone for a 17" were they able to achieve this. Is there anything inherent in the technology used that makes creating larger sized panels exceedingly difficult?
Is there any way we can make parent sticky? :)
'The amount of hate mail I get has virtually trippled in the last year,' Mr. Novak said in a statement to the press, 'this has got to stop.'.
The damages in the suit are unspecified yet, but mr Novak's lawyers have stated that one of the remedies they will seek is that Mr. Novak no 2 have his name legally changed to something less confusing. They alledge that he changed his name to "Robert Novak" in 1996, just as Bob Novak was gaining prominence for his appearances on CNN.
'We have received reports that his name before that was "Roberto Perdikakis"' a representative of mr. Novak's said Wednesday morning.
Well, sony lets you flip the keyboard under the screen, and use their clie as a traditional PDA. Which is good. Now if only you could swivel it so that both the keyboard and the screen are horisontal, you could have a very decent portable SSH device, an administrator's wet dream.
Remember when a Visor could work for a month on a set of AAA's without having to restrict your use to 10 minutes a day?
This reminds me of the show they had last year called "Frontier House", where a family was put onto a 19th century homestead to see how they'd do. On hone hand that show proved very interesting, but on the other, the way it was made kind of emphasized scandal, and played down achievements of the more successfull family. I hope this doesn't happen with the new show, since PBS seems to be venturing into traditional network TV territory with these reality series, and I hope they don't sink to trash TV level while doing it.
This way, they have a shot at someone saying "You're still running IE 6??? I just got netscape 7, so mine's better than yours!"
(I mean face it, it's this sort of people that creative product naming exists for in the first place)
If each legitimate copy of the CD has a different key associated with it, then the industry will have to overhaul its replication practices - you can no longer use one master to quickly stamp out all the CDs you need. You have to encode each one individually with its key, which would take a significantly larger amount of time.
A compromise would be to split the whole set of CDs into 10 - 20 subsets, each encoded with a different key. This way they can still sncode thousands of discs off of one copy, but chances are you and the next guy wouldn't have the same key.