A "severe blow". Puhlease. Apple could care less about this. Sure, they will go to court to get as much trademark leeway as they can, but nobody in Cupertino is sweating the supposed loss of "i".
How is it a completely free Web client stack anyway, when they would be using Windows gui APIs, Windows hardware acceleration APIS, etc etc, even if they got to choose their codec of choice?
Well, why aren't helicopters using Wankels? Huh? Huh?
For one thing, you can't buy a Wankel engine of the appropriate size, and manufacturing your own would be really hard. For another thing, don't they have awful fuel economy which mitigates power to wait when you've got to carry more fuel.
I take payments only from Paypal, because at this time it is the only practical way for me to do so. I agree that Paypal are the devil incarnate, but don't punish their victims.
I don't know much about Linux RAID, but as far as I see, if you must split across multiple disks, use the simplest approach possible so that you aren't left in some years time with a jungle of problems trying to assemble them again. Something like a simple split of the file if it is one large archive, or if it is a bunch of individual files, just distributes them between the disks somehow.
McFact No. 9. McDonalds wouldn't make their coffee that hot if people didn't want it that hot. If its hotter than other restaurants, presumably that is their competitive advantage.
McFact No. 10. The woman almost certainly would have burnt herself anyway, even if there had been some warning put up somewhere.
I still say, if you drop your coffee in your own lap, its your own fault. Frankly, I'd go through a few skin grafts for 2.7 million dollars.
That's funny. I would then say, don't visit those URLs of delete.cgi, just make a whole lot of links on your own web site to things like delete.cgi?file=/config.sys etc, and wait for Google to spider it and follow the links. See if he wants to sue Google.
The problem I see is that every time there is something in society that is not ideal, some schmuck asks a politician to fix it. And the politician has only one hammer: legislation, so every problem looks like a nail.
Look at this bunch of kids interview Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Half the "problems" raised by the students are not really government problems at all. Rudd, if he had any balls should have told these kids "not my problem". But no politician ever seems to have the balls to say that. Every problem must be a government problem and "solved" via the heavy hand of legislation. Every problem must have multiple senate committees appointed and so forth, when most problems are simply problems for the community and individuals to solve by themselves. There needs to be a sea change of attitude reform. Stop looking to the government to solve all your problems. You're just mounting up legislation on top of legislation until the point where the real problem becomes the government itself, and everyone is so hamstrung and neutered that nothing can be done any more without the government.
I don't think the music companies are asking the ISPs to listen to every internet connection, rather the music companies have investigators listening to them, and want the ISPs to shut down whomever they want.
While I understand your point, this thing is so close to being a computer, its hard to make the applicance claim. Once you make the decision to allow 3rd party software, even in the Apple walled garden, I think it can't be considered an appliance any more.
It seems to me that this scheme wouldn't stop them getting sued because they don't understand the difference between free and open source. By giving them another license, it wouldn't be free anymore to them, but the source would still be open.
Maybe by making a tiny change and not redistributing it, the source is no longer open, but then they could have done that themselves, they didn't need the original developer to do that, at least not with a BSD license.
Programmers aren't meant to be experts at everything, but statistics is probably one of the more important things a Programmer should learn. I mean they probably teach a bunch of stuff at uni like how to sort a list in (n) time, that nobody will ever use, but knowing how to apply statistics, whether it to be financial problems or computer science problems is one of the main tools a well rounded programmer should have. My knowledge of statistics is pretty basic, but its enough to wow my bosses with useful analysis of our data.
Give me a frickin break. Just because some guy strings some syllables together doesn't mean he owns them. I mean, I hereby computer generate all combinations of syllables, and declare ownership of sound itself. So shutup, because I now pwn you. If he wanted to own them as a commercial name, the trademark system is there. He didn't do that, because there is no Nexus One product he was marketing, so to register such a mark would have been an abuse of the system. And its not even Phillip Dick, its his estate for crying out loud. No doubt Phillip has got all the benefit he is going to get out of these syllables.
You can't really compare criminal fines to civil damages. Stealing a car might get you a couple of months in jail, but if it was a Rolls Royce and you crashed it, you might have to pay $500000 if you have the money.
The value of the items isn't really the issue either, since you could have streamed them to multiple people.
On the other side of the coin, what is the value of the items infringed? You could have items available for download worth $50,000. If you're saying 100x is ok, that is 25 million dollars or something.
I agree these fines are too big, but the arguments used need to be thought out more.
The "strict rules" are a bunch of baloney when you can spend fifty bucks or something to register a vaguely related business name for no particular reason, and thereby hold the domain. They might as well just give up on the rules and make it a free for all.
I might add that I had problems with auDA ages ago because they wouldn't let me register the exact name of my company, which I had owned from well before the internet was popular, just because my company name was considered "generic" or some crap. I appealed and won, but I still consider auDA to be a bunch of retards.
"f something not only is capable of being used illegally, but in fact, is almost exclusively used for said illegal purpose, does that matter?"
I think a hell of a lot of Subaru WRXs are used for ramraid smash and grab robberies. Would you therefore list it as a candidate for banning? And probably every VCR ever produced has in some way violated some copyright or other, by stepping outside the limited bounds of fair use. Ban it too? What about the internet itself? I think some estimate was that 50% of traffic is bittorrent and therefore mostly illegal.
Doesn't the government have anything to say about this? I think here in Australia the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would probably have something to say about something like this. Anti-competive behavior or something.
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A "severe blow". Puhlease. Apple could care less about this. Sure, they will go to court to get as much trademark leeway as they can, but nobody in Cupertino is sweating the supposed loss of "i".
Last I checked, there is no distinction between "real" and software patents. Apple's patents are as real as anybody's.
How is it a completely free Web client stack anyway, when they would be using Windows gui APIs, Windows hardware acceleration APIS, etc etc, even if they got to choose their codec of choice?
Well, why aren't helicopters using Wankels? Huh? Huh?
For one thing, you can't buy a Wankel engine of the appropriate size, and manufacturing your own would be really hard. For another thing, don't they have awful fuel economy which mitigates power to wait when you've got to carry more fuel.
Yeah, but you can land *anywhere*. So finding a safe landing spot is not an issue. And any service station is potentially a refueling spot.
I take payments only from Paypal, because at this time it is the only practical way for me to do so. I agree that Paypal are the devil incarnate, but don't punish their victims.
Rushed to market? It's not like Xerox was bringing it to market, only less rushed. We'd still be waiting for a gui if we were waiting for them.
I don't know much about Linux RAID, but as far as I see, if you must split across multiple disks, use the simplest approach possible so that you aren't left in some years time with a jungle of problems trying to assemble them again. Something like a simple split of the file if it is one large archive, or if it is a bunch of individual files, just distributes them between the disks somehow.
Isn't lseek() your friend?
McFact No. 9. McDonalds wouldn't make their coffee that hot if people didn't want it that hot. If its hotter than other restaurants, presumably that is their competitive advantage.
McFact No. 10. The woman almost certainly would have burnt herself anyway, even if there had been some warning put up somewhere.
I still say, if you drop your coffee in your own lap, its your own fault. Frankly, I'd go through a few skin grafts for 2.7 million dollars.
Taking away your freedom to share information IS a violation of fundamental moral rights.
That's funny. I would then say, don't visit those URLs of delete.cgi, just make a whole lot of links on your own web site to things like delete.cgi?file=/config.sys etc, and wait for Google to spider it and follow the links. See if he wants to sue Google.
The problem I see is that every time there is something in society that is not ideal, some schmuck asks a politician to fix it. And the politician has only one hammer: legislation, so every problem looks like a nail.
Look at this bunch of kids interview Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Half the "problems" raised by the students are not really government problems at all. Rudd, if he had any balls should have told these kids "not my problem". But no politician ever seems to have the balls to say that. Every problem must be a government problem and "solved" via the heavy hand of legislation. Every problem must have multiple senate committees appointed and so forth, when most problems are simply problems for the community and individuals to solve by themselves. There needs to be a sea change of attitude reform. Stop looking to the government to solve all your problems. You're just mounting up legislation on top of legislation until the point where the real problem becomes the government itself, and everyone is so hamstrung and neutered that nothing can be done any more without the government.
You got that sweet deal because MS dropped the ball on delivering Windows Vista on time. Don't expect to get that free ride again.
I don't think the music companies are asking the ISPs to listen to every internet connection, rather the music companies have investigators listening to them, and want the ISPs to shut down whomever they want.
While I understand your point, this thing is so close to being a computer, its hard to make the applicance claim. Once you make the decision to allow 3rd party software, even in the Apple walled garden, I think it can't be considered an appliance any more.
Don't knock it, it was a good move. Constantinople was far easier to defend than Rome.
It seems to me that this scheme wouldn't stop them getting sued because they don't understand the difference between free and open source. By giving them another license, it wouldn't be free anymore to them, but the source would still be open.
Maybe by making a tiny change and not redistributing it, the source is no longer open, but then they could have done that themselves, they didn't need the original developer to do that, at least not with a BSD license.
Programmers aren't meant to be experts at everything, but statistics is probably one of the more important things a Programmer should learn. I mean they probably teach a bunch of stuff at uni like how to sort a list in (n) time, that nobody will ever use, but knowing how to apply statistics, whether it to be financial problems or computer science problems is one of the main tools a well rounded programmer should have. My knowledge of statistics is pretty basic, but its enough to wow my bosses with useful analysis of our data.
Give me a frickin break. Just because some guy strings some syllables together doesn't mean he owns them. I mean, I hereby computer generate all combinations of syllables, and declare ownership of sound itself. So shutup, because I now pwn you. If he wanted to own them as a commercial name, the trademark system is there. He didn't do that, because there is no Nexus One product he was marketing, so to register such a mark would have been an abuse of the system. And its not even Phillip Dick, its his estate for crying out loud. No doubt Phillip has got all the benefit he is going to get out of these syllables.
You can't really compare criminal fines to civil damages. Stealing a car might get you a couple of months in jail, but if it was a Rolls Royce and you crashed it, you might have to pay $500000 if you have the money.
The value of the items isn't really the issue either, since you could have streamed them to multiple people.
On the other side of the coin, what is the value of the items infringed? You could have items available for download worth $50,000. If you're saying 100x is ok, that is 25 million dollars or something.
I agree these fines are too big, but the arguments used need to be thought out more.
The "strict rules" are a bunch of baloney when you can spend fifty bucks or something to register a vaguely related business name for no particular reason, and thereby hold the domain. They might as well just give up on the rules and make it a free for all.
I might add that I had problems with auDA ages ago because they wouldn't let me register the exact name of my company, which I had owned from well before the internet was popular, just because my company name was considered "generic" or some crap. I appealed and won, but I still consider auDA to be a bunch of retards.
"f something not only is capable of being used illegally, but in fact, is almost exclusively used for said illegal purpose, does that matter?"
I think a hell of a lot of Subaru WRXs are used for ramraid smash and grab robberies. Would you therefore list it as a candidate for banning? And probably every VCR ever produced has in some way violated some copyright or other, by stepping outside the limited bounds of fair use. Ban it too? What about the internet itself? I think some estimate was that 50% of traffic is bittorrent and therefore mostly illegal.
Looks to me like HFS is the way to go since there are good solutions for all three platforms for HFS.
Doesn't the government have anything to say about this? I think here in Australia the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would probably have something to say about something like this. Anti-competive behavior or something.