They way all corporations do their business is by flexing their muscle. When a company starts to measure its success by how much their quarterly results benefit their investors, then they become myopic bullies and innovation stops. MS is far ahead there.
Business and its reporting are a completely different animals than what the first amendment and its interpretations are meant define. It should be no surprise that the judge ruled in favor of Apple. It should not be the right of individuals to publish private information just because an unethical person released it--and the employee who violated that confidentiality should be held accountable.
But, if the sites reported the leak from other sources, Apple shouldn't have a leg to stand on. C'est la guerre.
Talk about SPYWARE! It works great until it's infected with a worm and goes berserk. Can you imagine a world filled with these MS robots? One day, some smart ass 15 yr old from Bratislava writes a virus for it that makes it start teaching the children profanity and spinning its head like a demon--or worse.
Top 10 Reasons you should quit your job and find another:
10. You're asked to train a new hire to do exactly what you do.
9. Your boss's spouse/kid gets hired below you.
8. The Federal Trade Commission calls you...at home.
7. The CFO shoots "himself" in the back of the head with a shotgun.
6. Your cubicle mate starts really getting into "Guns & Ammo" magazine.
5. A truck out front is unloading 3 pallets of new shredders
4. You see your boss on "COPS"
3. Two Words: "Strategic Consultants"
2. You start wondering how much a McDonald's manager really makes
1. Your boss hands out copies of "Who Moved My Cheese?"
Seriously, though. If you're truly not happy, quit. Find something you really like doing and do it. Why be a slave to the money if you don't really have to?
It's funny how one of the linked articles refers back to this site they way this site refers to it. It's like when you have a mirror and you face it towards another mirror...
...only, Slashdot has never been "physicswebbed"...
New to Earth? Check out this awesome studio apartment in the quaint little town of Parkes! Easy access to "the dish" for phoning home! To let for $500/mo. no lease. No pets or mouth brooders. Klingons need not apply.
Without any particular harmonic structure or tonal center changes, it sounds more like Gamelan. To my ear, it might as well be a wind chime. But, considering that's it's generated by a rodent, it's not all bad and interesting rhythmically.
On a deja vous note, it's interesting how we're looking for musical patterns in nature. It's not unlike Boethius's (ca. 480-524) theory of musica mundana, or "music of the cosmos," where he theorized that the macrocosmos was held together by this mysterious musical power. Boethius's treatise also included musica humana and musica instrumentalis--the music that bound together body, mind, and soul and the sort of music we mostly understand today respectively. I suppose it's interesting because we're using today's technology to "realize" theories proposed some 1500 years ago.
True enough, perhaps that's why MS is targeting WINE users. It's simply a rabbit hole they won't go down.
I don't underestimate MS's ability to build anything formidable--but they usually swallow up a technology, modify enough to call it "theirs" and sell it. They simply can't do that with Linux because they can't control it. MS Linux would be yet another tiny distro.
-You reap what you sow. -Karma (nuff said) -What goes around comes around. -Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. -Even the Wiccans have something about this:
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
An' it harm none,
Do what ye will.
Blessed Be to thee."
You'd think a Mormon would have heard 3 of the above...
Of course, this is the guy who has pronounced Apple as dead more than once. What value is the opinion of a pin-headed pundit? Wow. I was like, a poet there.
Anyway, MS-Linux? W(hy)TF would I use that? The reason people use Linux is usually to get away from Windows and it's diseases. Why would I run Linux as a subjugated app under an inferior kernel design on a server? To enhance security? Ha!
Dvorak says "MS Linux would quickly become the dominant linux distribution." He pulled that right out of his arse. Does he think that many people would actually buy Linux from Microsoft when it's available for FREE elsewhere?
John C. Dvorak--I think you over estimate MS's position to dominate a market that's based on not being Microsoft.
Don't you long for the days before corporations took over the internet? I mean, sure HTML 1.0 kinda sucked, but when it was just us geeks trying to share information, everything was so much cleaner. When it suddenly became chic to be on "the net" advertisers came--spam, pop-ups, spyware, etc. Death, Taxes, and Advertising. It's like we're already in hell....wait a minute...
First, I think that cage's 4'33" challenged the status quo about what music actually is. This silly post about silence, I suppose, is the same sort of challenge to copyright and the DRM.
As a classically trained composer myself, I feel qualified to say that Cage was more a philosopher than he was a musician--but that doesn't minimize his importantance. Of course, I prefer 4'33" to Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet.
Jurassic Park in a Petri Dish! Be careful with reviving microbes from other planets. They've made about 2 dozen horror flicks about this sort of thing going horribly awry. It might be worth it though if they grow up to look as hot as the chick from "Species."
The punishment should, indeed, fit the crime. However, the "crime" shouldn't be minimized. I think the NDA probably had some lists of prices to pay. Being ruined probably wan't one of them, but it shouldn't be a slap on the wrist--a contract is a contract.
I would think twice about signing an NDA and think three times about violating it.
From my perspective, I haven't really felt any impact as a consumer. The "resellers" are losing the mark-up but the savings are helping the consumer base. I think class-action might not have much if it's only a few vendors complaining. If they can argue that Apple's practices hurt the consumer, then they'll have more teeth. But, otherwise, that's pretty much the way the business cookie crumbles.
Apple has a NDA that they require of all developers who receive "pre-release" copies of software in development. If Apple does not pursue litigation then their NDA basically means nothing. They are perfectly within their legal rights to insist that the agreement be kept. So, the poor bastard who's getting sued should have known better.
There are open source packages out there to distribute freely without the wrath of the owner. It seems that there are many slashdot readers who are not mature enough to recognize that the world doesn't work that way. I'm not saying it's right--I'm just saying that just because you think IP laws are rubbish or do not apply to you doesn't change the fact that they the law and they do, in fact, apply. It's naive to think that electronic civil disobedience will not be met with the very sharp teeth and claws of the corporate legal eagles/weasels. Everyone always says, "Oh, that poor grandmother or little kid getting picked on by the corporations."
Fight the law with the law. Vigilante piracy isn't going to magically tip the law in the favor of Utopian RMS world.
It's friggin' common sense people--DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN CORPORATIONS. Everyone here knows it's against the law to share copyrighted music, software, or some other IP. If you do it anyway don't bitch if you get caught. Just because we don't like the corporations doesn't make it right to steal from them--that makes us immature miscreant punks. And the legal system will treat you as such.
This world runs on money--corporations are greedy entities that will suck the lives out of every human being. Don't buy corporate. Fight with your power as a "consumer" by not being one. DON'T BE A CONSUMER WHORE but be a law-abiding citizen, too. [PSA brought to you by catdevnull].
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They way all corporations do their business is by flexing their muscle. When a company starts to measure its success by how much their quarterly results benefit their investors, then they become myopic bullies and innovation stops. MS is far ahead there.
Business and its reporting are a completely different animals than what the first amendment and its interpretations are meant define. It should be no surprise that the judge ruled in favor of Apple. It should not be the right of individuals to publish private information just because an unethical person released it--and the employee who violated that confidentiality should be held accountable.
But, if the sites reported the leak from other sources, Apple shouldn't have a leg to stand on. C'est la guerre.
Just for this thread:
Developers!
Talk about SPYWARE! It works great until it's infected with a worm and goes berserk. Can you imagine a world filled with these MS robots? One day, some smart ass 15 yr old from Bratislava writes a virus for it that makes it start teaching the children profanity and spinning its head like a demon--or worse.
Top 10 Reasons you should quit your job and find another:
10. You're asked to train a new hire to do exactly what you do.
9. Your boss's spouse/kid gets hired below you.
8. The Federal Trade Commission calls you...at home.
7. The CFO shoots "himself" in the back of the head with a shotgun.
6. Your cubicle mate starts really getting into "Guns & Ammo" magazine.
5. A truck out front is unloading 3 pallets of new shredders
4. You see your boss on "COPS"
3. Two Words: "Strategic Consultants"
2. You start wondering how much a McDonald's manager really makes
1. Your boss hands out copies of "Who Moved My Cheese?"
Seriously, though. If you're truly not happy, quit. Find something you really like doing and do it. Why be a slave to the money if you don't really have to?
It's funny how one of the linked articles refers back to this site they way this site refers to it. It's like when you have a mirror and you face it towards another mirror...
...only, Slashdot has never been "physicswebbed"...
New to Earth? Check out this awesome studio apartment in the quaint little town of Parkes! Easy access to "the dish" for phoning home! To let for $500/mo. no lease. No pets or mouth brooders. Klingons need not apply.
The emporer has already knighted him Darth Gater, sith lord.
dude...let his body get cold before you get too cheeky.
Without any particular harmonic structure or tonal center changes, it sounds more like Gamelan. To my ear, it might as well be a wind chime. But, considering that's it's generated by a rodent, it's not all bad and interesting rhythmically.
On a deja vous note, it's interesting how we're looking for musical patterns in nature. It's not unlike Boethius's (ca. 480-524) theory of musica mundana, or "music of the cosmos," where he theorized that the macrocosmos was held together by this mysterious musical power. Boethius's treatise also included musica humana and musica instrumentalis--the music that bound together body, mind, and soul and the sort of music we mostly understand today respectively. I suppose it's interesting because we're using today's technology to "realize" theories proposed some 1500 years ago.
Cheerleader!
So-and-So!
What's-Her-Face!
The Ugly One!
Which one works in IT?
It's over!
True enough, perhaps that's why MS is targeting WINE users. It's simply a rabbit hole they won't go down.
I don't underestimate MS's ability to build anything formidable--but they usually swallow up a technology, modify enough to call it "theirs" and sell it. They simply can't do that with Linux because they can't control it. MS Linux would be yet another tiny distro.
-You reap what you sow.
-Karma (nuff said)
-What goes around comes around.
-Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
-Even the Wiccans have something about this:
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
An' it harm none,
Do what ye will.
Blessed Be to thee."
You'd think a Mormon would have heard 3 of the above...
Of course, this is the guy who has pronounced Apple as dead more than once. What value is the opinion of a pin-headed pundit? Wow. I was like, a poet there.
Anyway, MS-Linux? W(hy)TF would I use that? The reason people use Linux is usually to get away from Windows and it's diseases. Why would I run Linux as a subjugated app under an inferior kernel design on a server? To enhance security? Ha!
Dvorak says "MS Linux would quickly become the dominant linux distribution." He pulled that right out of his arse. Does he think that many people would actually buy Linux from Microsoft when it's available for FREE elsewhere?
John C. Dvorak--I think you over estimate MS's position to dominate a market that's based on not being Microsoft.
Don't you long for the days before corporations took over the internet? I mean, sure HTML 1.0 kinda sucked, but when it was just us geeks trying to share information, everything was so much cleaner. When it suddenly became chic to be on "the net" advertisers came--spam, pop-ups, spyware, etc. Death, Taxes, and Advertising. It's like we're already in hell....wait a minute...
You didn't find it uplifting? Perhaps it should end on a high note?
I wonder if they could use the smaller post-its for "hi-res" effect? Maybe it would be fun to do a pin-up next time :)
First, I think that cage's 4'33" challenged the status quo about what music actually is. This silly post about silence, I suppose, is the same sort of challenge to copyright and the DRM. As a classically trained composer myself, I feel qualified to say that Cage was more a philosopher than he was a musician--but that doesn't minimize his importantance. Of course, I prefer 4'33" to Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet.
Either way, all of these pretentious stunt artists are silly.
Jurassic Park in a Petri Dish! Be careful with reviving microbes from other planets. They've made about 2 dozen horror flicks about this sort of thing going horribly awry. It might be worth it though if they grow up to look as hot as the chick from "Species."
The punishment should, indeed, fit the crime. However, the "crime" shouldn't be minimized. I think the NDA probably had some lists of prices to pay. Being ruined probably wan't one of them, but it shouldn't be a slap on the wrist--a contract is a contract.
I would think twice about signing an NDA and think three times about violating it.
Found in the US teenager's pocket was a to-do list:
Hey, Peter. Watch out for yer cornhole, man.
From my perspective, I haven't really felt any impact as a consumer. The "resellers" are losing the mark-up but the savings are helping the consumer base. I think class-action might not have much if it's only a few vendors complaining. If they can argue that Apple's practices hurt the consumer, then they'll have more teeth. But, otherwise, that's pretty much the way the business cookie crumbles.
I'm not pro-corporate. Let me say that up front.
Apple has a NDA that they require of all developers who receive "pre-release" copies of software in development. If Apple does not pursue litigation then their NDA basically means nothing. They are perfectly within their legal rights to insist that the agreement be kept. So, the poor bastard who's getting sued should have known better.
There are open source packages out there to distribute freely without the wrath of the owner. It seems that there are many slashdot readers who are not mature enough to recognize that the world doesn't work that way. I'm not saying it's right--I'm just saying that just because you think IP laws are rubbish or do not apply to you doesn't change the fact that they the law and they do, in fact, apply. It's naive to think that electronic civil disobedience will not be met with the very sharp teeth and claws of the corporate legal eagles/weasels. Everyone always says, "Oh, that poor grandmother or little kid getting picked on by the corporations."
Fight the law with the law. Vigilante piracy isn't going to magically tip the law in the favor of Utopian RMS world. It's friggin' common sense people--DO NOT TAUNT HAPPY FUN CORPORATIONS. Everyone here knows it's against the law to share copyrighted music, software, or some other IP. If you do it anyway don't bitch if you get caught. Just because we don't like the corporations doesn't make it right to steal from them--that makes us immature miscreant punks. And the legal system will treat you as such.
This world runs on money--corporations are greedy entities that will suck the lives out of every human being. Don't buy corporate. Fight with your power as a "consumer" by not being one. DON'T BE A CONSUMER WHORE but be a law-abiding citizen, too. [PSA brought to you by catdevnull].
...I regret to inform you that in order to make room for the hyperspace express route...
I thought it was all those damn cow farts and rainforests. I guess that eerie feeling I get when I drive by the refinery is worth noting...