Apple is making an exact copy of every single visual element of the clock, minus the logo. That's what's wrong.
First, if you look, the proportions of the hands and the minute markers aren't identical. The iOS version has thinner hands and fatter minute markers. Second, so what? How much of a clock face should be patentable? Where do you draw the line before it's impossible for anyone to make a clock without paying some asshole for the idea of having hands and minute markers.
The Swiss design was made 70 years ago. Was it the first clock face in that style? Almost certainly not, but I wont bother to look for prior art.
Look in any jewellery shop -- you can find watch and clock design that are obviously "inspired" by Rolex, etc. But as long as they don't actually use the logo, that is actually fine in my book. Why the hell not? Compete on quality, not trivial design elements common in uncounted products.
We need something faster and has more functionality than Office
"More functionality"? Office is a bloated pile of crap because of the excessive and redundant features. What used to be a pretty useful wordprocessor back about 1992, Word 5, is now so feature laden that hardly anyone uses or even knows a tenth of its features.
I edit books and authors send me files in Word. I have yet to see one -- whether a businessman, doctor, or university professor -- that knows what a Word "style" is. They one and all treat it like a typewriter. Few of them seem to be able to spellcheck.
The only reason anyone upgrades is because they have no choice when they buy, or they have to be able to read the file format. My daughter demanded I get it for that reason, as her teachers distribute files in various MS Office formats. I installed Ubuntu on her laptop and she now uses Libre Office. It works, it's free.
If you agree to enter the property under certain terms,
And then you would have to prove that these terms had been explicitly offered and accepted.
No doubt a lawyer could sue and intimidate someone regardless..
there is case law where people have been held liable to pay the fee for a guided tour because they knew the terms of payment for the tour
Because that they knew the terms of payment for the tour was not disputable. Anyway, comparing using a service without paying to having a restriction of your normal right to take and subsequently publish photo is a big stretch.
, if they couldn't process vegetables before they never would have thought of them as a food source,
RTFA.
It isn't about switching form pure carnivore to pure herbivore. We never were carnivores. We've always been omnivorous. The mutation in question allow people to produce a specific fatty acid, DHA, we need for our brain's health, from vegetables. Previously we had to eat fish to get this. So people with this gene could stay healthy even if they didn't eat fish for a long time. So they could migrate and thus conquered the world.
Yet removing one container ship from the shipping industry would be the equivalent of removing 50 million automobiles.
A complete bullshit denialist talking point.
Freighters use dirty oil, they produce much more sulphur oxides than cars burning noral gasoline. They certainly do not produce 50 million times as much CO2 as a car as you imply.
yet I'm the one being blamed?
Of course not. You're perfectly innocent. Just drive down to the 7-Eleven in your SUV and buy a beer and relax. Vote for Romney and he'll make it all go away.
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence." -- Bill Hicks
the way to combat this is for every website that detects the DNT header to simply respond with a page saying how to turn it off
Yeah, right. They will forgo delivering pageviews of untargetted ads and try to twist your arm to make you allow them to track you. I don't think that's a winning strategy. If they did, users would respond by installing plugins that pretend to comply while supplying false tracking information.
How quickly we all forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads for products you cannnot use or cannot be purchased in your locale.
That describes 99% of the ads I see now.
The only "targetting" is get is ads telling me "18 year old lonely girl in $YOURLOCATION wants to fuck you now!" I can live without that crap
Isn't Do Not Track voluntary? The advertiser can choose not follow it, right? If so, what is all the fuss about?/quote>
That's the situation now, free for all.
He's afraid the FTC will make it mandatory, so advertisers can't simply track regardless. Also that browser makers are making DNT the default.
Both your examples are true, times when a non-written contract is valid, but neither are relevant to a person entering an art gallery.
There needs to be a LOT of case law to uphold an implicit contract. You can't just put page of small print on the back of a ticket and then require the purchaser to give you a blow job, or in this case, to give up their right to take a photograph and own the result.
Yes, the photo belongs to you, but they could potentially sue you for ownership of the copyright, since you created that work only through violating their rights or contract of admission.
Looks like a non sequitur to me. Also, who signed a contract anyway? A contract requires an agreement, preferably signed.
the agreement to enter the museum may bar commercial use of the photograph. Any such commercial use may lead to a civil lawsuit for breach of contract
I really doubt a contract has any force unless it's signed. A contract has to be agreed, you can't just declare that you have agreed to something by entering a door.
I'm not sure what the arrangements would look like for commercial use, but I'd guess they're usually expensive and very specific.
Yes, that's what their sign says. But it doesn't have the force of law. They can make it physically hard for you to take the photos, but if you manage to take a photo of a painting 100 years old, the copyright of the photo belongs to you 100%. You can do anything you want with it.
I never understood why it had to be a single origin. Couldn't a particular evolution or event happen at multiple locations or multiple stages of merging?
A single evolutionary change could arise in different places. But after a while, there would be a whole lot of other changes too. The odds of them ALL being the same are impossible. So you won't get identical creatures arising in different places. Similarl though is quite possible. And whether they are able to interbreed, to be considered the same species, depends on how far diverged they are from a common ancestor.
Obviously the parents don't have to be identical genetically to crossbreed. but the more different they are, the less likely a viable offspring is. TFA mentions this, says we have 2.5% Neanderthal genes, possibly because we just aren't very interfertile.
nuclear weapons still rely on mushing things together quickly enough to generate fission and/or fusion
Yeah, if you "mash together" pure U235 or Plutonium you have nuclear fission. There's not really a lot of that in your average meteor. And fusion? forget about it.
please let this drop diamond prices down to what they should be and force deBeers to find other ways to earn money
TFA doesn't talk about gems, only industrial uses. Maybe they don't have big diamonds from the astrobleme -- or maybe they do but are keeping it quiet to keep the price up. De Beers is likely to be involved in the marketing if so.
Back in the 80s, Hong Kong gangsters ("triads") were known for carrying their brick-size, and -weight phones at all times; and using them to bludgeon people in brawls. They made very effective weapons.
Now it's all "thin, thin, thin!', they should offer a model with a retractable razor edge. Better than Mace.
Also known as Middle Management. A smartphone with a backup laptop for when they actually need to do something is more than enough for these folks
Right. They'll still have a laptop. They won't give it up as TFA (or at least, the stupid headline), claimed.
And really, you think someone would "Answer and write e-mails" all day using their thumbs? I'm sure it's possible, but not very sensible, convenient or efficient.
"the impending closing of the history books on the era that started in Silicon Valley a little over 35 years ago."
What a load of bullshit.
Of course, mobile computing is getting more and more important.
But no one is giving up their PC on their desktop in their office to do their daily work on an iPhone. The number of PCs being sold is still increasing.
People will be sitting at desks, typing on keyboards, looking at monitors, for the foreseeable future. And using their mobile devices when they're away from the desk.
We still use pens and pencils to write, AS WELL AS keyboards. We still use CDs to play music AS WELL AS MP3s. We still go to cinemas, we don't all watch movies on out 4" smartphone screens. We do all that AS WELL AS using he newer technology. PCs aren't obsolete.
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Opera does.
F12 to just turn on/off, R-click, edit site preferences for finegrained control.
The US DOJ takes down knock-off and counterfeit sites all the time, because design is, indeed, protected.
Counterfeits use the logo so thay can be passed off as the original product. Different thing entirely.
Apple is making an exact copy of every single visual element of the clock, minus the logo. That's what's wrong.
First, if you look, the proportions of the hands and the minute markers aren't identical. The iOS version has thinner hands and fatter minute markers. Second, so what? How much of a clock face should be patentable? Where do you draw the line before it's impossible for anyone to make a clock without paying some asshole for the idea of having hands and minute markers.
The Swiss design was made 70 years ago. Was it the first clock face in that style? Almost certainly not, but I wont bother to look for prior art.
Look in any jewellery shop -- you can find watch and clock design that are obviously "inspired" by Rolex, etc. But as long as they don't actually use the logo, that is actually fine in my book. Why the hell not? Compete on quality, not trivial design elements common in uncounted products.
We need something faster and has more functionality than Office
"More functionality"? Office is a bloated pile of crap because of the excessive and redundant features. What used to be a pretty useful wordprocessor back about 1992, Word 5, is now so feature laden that hardly anyone uses or even knows a tenth of its features.
I edit books and authors send me files in Word. I have yet to see one -- whether a businessman, doctor, or university professor -- that knows what a Word "style" is. They one and all treat it like a typewriter. Few of them seem to be able to spellcheck.
The only reason anyone upgrades is because they have no choice when they buy, or they have to be able to read the file format. My daughter demanded I get it for that reason, as her teachers distribute files in various MS Office formats. I installed Ubuntu on her laptop and she now uses Libre Office. It works, it's free.
If you agree to enter the property under certain terms,
And then you would have to prove that these terms had been explicitly offered and accepted.
No doubt a lawyer could sue and intimidate someone regardless..
there is case law where people have been held liable to pay the fee for a guided tour because they knew the terms of payment for the tour
Because that they knew the terms of payment for the tour was not disputable. Anyway, comparing using a service without paying to having a restriction of your normal right to take and subsequently publish photo is a big stretch.
Are you a liar, or just stupid?
Are you an asshole, or just a stupid cunt?
The real question is how were they able to truncate your password if they used a hash?
Maybe they always truncated the password, just didn't tell you.
, if they couldn't process vegetables before they never would have thought of them as a food source,
RTFA. It isn't about switching form pure carnivore to pure herbivore. We never were carnivores. We've always been omnivorous. The mutation in question allow people to produce a specific fatty acid, DHA, we need for our brain's health, from vegetables. Previously we had to eat fish to get this. So people with this gene could stay healthy even if they didn't eat fish for a long time. So they could migrate and thus conquered the world.
Yet removing one container ship from the shipping industry would be the equivalent of removing 50 million automobiles.
A complete bullshit denialist talking point.
Freighters use dirty oil, they produce much more sulphur oxides than cars burning noral gasoline. They certainly do not produce 50 million times as much CO2 as a car as you imply.
yet I'm the one being blamed?
Of course not. You're perfectly innocent. Just drive down to the 7-Eleven in your SUV and buy a beer and relax. Vote for Romney and he'll make it all go away.
"By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I'm doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan's little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now. Now, back to the show. Seriously, I know the marketing people: 'There's gonna be a joke comin' up.' There's no fuckin' joke. Suck a tail pipe, hang yourself...borrow a pistol from an NRA buddy, do something...rid the world of your evil fuckin' presence." -- Bill Hicks
the way to combat this is for every website that detects the DNT header to simply respond with a page saying how to turn it off
Yeah, right. They will forgo delivering pageviews of untargetted ads and try to twist your arm to make you allow them to track you. I don't think that's a winning strategy. If they did, users would respond by installing plugins that pretend to comply while supplying false tracking information.
How quickly we all forget what it was like to be constantly bombarded with ads for products you cannnot use or cannot be purchased in your locale.
That describes 99% of the ads I see now.
The only "targetting" is get is ads telling me "18 year old lonely girl in $YOURLOCATION wants to fuck you now!" I can live without that crap
Isn't Do Not Track voluntary? The advertiser can choose not follow it, right? If so, what is all the fuss about?/quote> That's the situation now, free for all.
He's afraid the FTC will make it mandatory, so advertisers can't simply track regardless. Also that browser makers are making DNT the default.
There needs to be a LOT of case law to uphold an implicit contract. You can't just put page of small print on the back of a ticket and then require the purchaser to give you a blow job, or in this case, to give up their right to take a photograph and own the result.
Yes, the photo belongs to you, but they could potentially sue you for ownership of the copyright, since you created that work only through violating their rights or contract of admission.
Looks like a non sequitur to me. Also, who signed a contract anyway? A contract requires an agreement, preferably signed.
the agreement to enter the museum may bar commercial use of the photograph. Any such commercial use may lead to a civil lawsuit for breach of contract
I really doubt a contract has any force unless it's signed. A contract has to be agreed, you can't just declare that you have agreed to something by entering a door.
I'm not sure what the arrangements would look like for commercial use, but I'd guess they're usually expensive and very specific.
Yes, that's what their sign says. But it doesn't have the force of law. They can make it physically hard for you to take the photos, but if you manage to take a photo of a painting 100 years old, the copyright of the photo belongs to you 100%. You can do anything you want with it.
, it takes a great deal of divergence, much more than is present in modern Humans, before there are fertility problems.
Well, we aren't talking about "modern humans". We're all the same species and interfertile, having wiped out our near relatives.
I never understood why it had to be a single origin. Couldn't a particular evolution or event happen at multiple locations or multiple stages of merging?
A single evolutionary change could arise in different places. But after a while, there would be a whole lot of other changes too. The odds of them ALL being the same are impossible. So you won't get identical creatures arising in different places. Similarl though is quite possible. And whether they are able to interbreed, to be considered the same species, depends on how far diverged they are from a common ancestor.
Obviously the parents don't have to be identical genetically to crossbreed. but the more different they are, the less likely a viable offspring is. TFA mentions this, says we have 2.5% Neanderthal genes, possibly because we just aren't very interfertile.
nuclear weapons still rely on mushing things together quickly enough to generate fission and/or fusion
Yeah, if you "mash together" pure U235 or Plutonium you have nuclear fission. There's not really a lot of that in your average meteor. And fusion? forget about it.
please let this drop diamond prices down to what they should be and force deBeers to find other ways to earn money
TFA doesn't talk about gems, only industrial uses. Maybe they don't have big diamonds from the astrobleme -- or maybe they do but are keeping it quiet to keep the price up. De Beers is likely to be involved in the marketing if so.
Now it's all "thin, thin, thin!', they should offer a model with a retractable razor edge. Better than Mace.
I've ditched the desktop. One laptop works for me.
A laptop is a "personal computer". And if you're using on a desk, it's also a "desktop" for all intents and purposes.
Also known as Middle Management. A smartphone with a backup laptop for when they actually need to do something is more than enough for these folks
Right. They'll still have a laptop. They won't give it up as TFA (or at least, the stupid headline), claimed.
And really, you think someone would "Answer and write e-mails" all day using their thumbs? I'm sure it's possible, but not very sensible, convenient or efficient.
What a load of bullshit.
Of course, mobile computing is getting more and more important.
But no one is giving up their PC on their desktop in their office to do their daily work on an iPhone. The number of PCs being sold is still increasing.
People will be sitting at desks, typing on keyboards, looking at monitors, for the foreseeable future. And using their mobile devices when they're away from the desk.
We still use pens and pencils to write, AS WELL AS keyboards. We still use CDs to play music AS WELL AS MP3s. We still go to cinemas, we don't all watch movies on out 4" smartphone screens. We do all that AS WELL AS using he newer technology. PCs aren't obsolete.
"Passing of the PC era"? Not in my lifetime.
Wrong. As some other posters have already shown, google happily indexes and searches FileFactory.
No it doesn't. FF blocks indexing. See http://www.filefactory.com/robots.txt
Google indexes links to FF it finds on other sites. You can't just get a file listing of uploads to FF from FF (well, maybe with a court order).