I think is is more referring to other damages you might incur, external to the equipment itself.
In any case, there are limits to what you can exclude. You can't have a parking garage, put up a disclaimer, and then take an axe to your customer's cars. That's outside of a reasonable expectation. If Sony bricked consoles with the update, they are not only morally responsible, but my guess is legally responsible, regardless of the disclaimer.
I kinda hope Apple wins this one, mostly because I'm tired of corporate rebranding campaigns, and I find this whole new Woolworths logo tiresome, and an attempt to be clever that failed. The old logo was just "Woolworths", which said all it needed to say. Enough with logos already. Thank goodness the Australian government put a stop to government agencies all having their own logo. That was also boring and tiresome, and thankfully has been squashed.
On the face of it, Macs are not much easier to use. Macs and PCs have the same basic elements. But if you've used both for a significant period of time, one starts to notice how crappy windows stuff is designed. Take user account management and all the option available under windows and Mac. Both have similar features, but windows is heaps more complicated, and takes about 20 more clicks to achieve anything. Similarly for network setup.
Most of the "dedicated' GPS units on the market actually have bluetooth which technically turns them into proxy mobile phones. So aren't they really saying that almost all GPS units are now illegal?
So you can make calls on a mobile (in a cradle) while driving, and use a GPS while driving, but you can't use a phone in a cradle as a GPS????
Exactly. It sounds like the US system was more worrying because it was some guys in planes with bombs. i.e. it was only point (4) "guy in plane drops bomb", and lacks the other 3 safeguards.
Sounds like Google are doing their best to fix the problems. What I couldn't quite figure out is why bad data is overriding usually good data like Harvard. Maybe they need to give reliability rankings or something. We are 84% sure this date is right (because it came from Harvard), but there is a 10% chance this one is right (because some other place said that), and a 6% chance of this one (because some guys in Korea said it). Have the option to search only best guesses or all guesses.
This Labor Australian government has been stunningly disappointing, and everyone I know thinks the same. There was a hope that Labor would bring a bit more enlightenment to a government that was previously seemed to be out of touch, but they have been infinitely worse. Who would have thought we would pine for the good old days?
That's not the only way to demand it, it just happens to be the way it is framed by the GPL.
If you distribute binaries of ANYTHING in ANY WAY, you are subject to the copyrights. If I don't want my code run on any machine that doesn't have every single instruction running on it free and open, I could write that in my license.
If I want to license my code only to people who will run it on PDP-11 and who promise to sing the national anthem and the source code from the top of Mt Fuji, I can do that too.
They don't claim copyright, the just want something in return. You use my code, I get to use your code. A simple barter system. You don't like the deal, don't use the code.
Actually, you wouldn't have to make your program GPL2, you would only have to make it compatible with GPL2. Which usually means GPL2 or something even more liberal like BSD. And only then of course, if you distribute.
I hate it when companies turn their back on a long and proud history because of some brain dead idea by the latest marketdroid. Sure, there are some cases when it has to be done. But then there are cases like this when it is plain stupid.
Bankruptcy doesn't help if you are in jail because the judge thinks you have the money, and you won't cough it up. Bankruptcy would just put you in front of another judge who would presumably put you in jail for the exact same thing.
Because hard drive technology has outpaced tapes etc, I'm afraid they seem to be the only solution as far as I can tell. And if your backup requirements exceed the size of a single drive, yes I think Drobo is the way to go.
Sure I wish there was a tape solution that could do the job, but unless you have major corporate sized budget, I can't find a product that can do it. So go DROBO as far as I can see. On the other hand, if you've got that much data you probably are already on Drobo, and now need a 2nd one to back it up.
Back in my pre-Mac days when I could be bothered with all this stuff, I always assumed as my starting point that nothing works with Linux, until proven otherwise with sufficient research on the internet. Like it or not, the computer parts industry is still basically a Windows world. Nothing works outside Windows unless proven otherwise.
I doubt that it is legal to shamelessly copy material in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognise your copyrights, and then import it, otherwise copyright would collapse. But I'm IANAL.
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There is another app, not the official Wikipedia one that DOES indeed store the entire Wikipedia on your device.
I think is is more referring to other damages you might incur, external to the equipment itself.
In any case, there are limits to what you can exclude. You can't have a parking garage, put up a disclaimer, and then take an axe to your customer's cars. That's outside of a reasonable expectation. If Sony bricked consoles with the update, they are not only morally responsible, but my guess is legally responsible, regardless of the disclaimer.
I kinda hope Apple wins this one, mostly because I'm tired of corporate rebranding campaigns, and I find this whole new Woolworths logo tiresome, and an attempt to be clever that failed. The old logo was just "Woolworths", which said all it needed to say. Enough with logos already. Thank goodness the Australian government put a stop to government agencies all having their own logo. That was also boring and tiresome, and thankfully has been squashed.
On the face of it, Macs are not much easier to use. Macs and PCs have the same basic elements. But if you've used both for a significant period of time, one starts to notice how crappy windows stuff is designed. Take user account management and all the option available under windows and Mac. Both have similar features, but windows is heaps more complicated, and takes about 20 more clicks to achieve anything. Similarly for network setup.
What if your car has phone and GPS built in? Then the whole car is illegal.
Most of the "dedicated' GPS units on the market actually have bluetooth which technically turns them into proxy mobile phones. So aren't they really saying that almost all GPS units are now illegal?
So you can make calls on a mobile (in a cradle) while driving, and use a GPS while driving, but you can't use a phone in a cradle as a GPS????
Exactly. It sounds like the US system was more worrying because it was some guys in planes with bombs. i.e. it was only point (4) "guy in plane drops bomb", and lacks the other 3 safeguards.
Come now, you can't say it has "absolutely nothing" to do with apps.
Yes, but it isn't terribly efficient. If the total VM (including swap) is > 4GB, its generally best to have a 64bit machine.
Sounds like Google are doing their best to fix the problems. What I couldn't quite figure out is why bad data is overriding usually good data like Harvard. Maybe they need to give reliability rankings or something. We are 84% sure this date is right (because it came from Harvard), but there is a 10% chance this one is right (because some other place said that), and a 6% chance of this one (because some guys in Korea said it). Have the option to search only best guesses or all guesses.
I doubt they knew it was going to be big. I doubt they visualised a future with cars.com and sex.com.
This Labor Australian government has been stunningly disappointing, and everyone I know thinks the same. There was a hope that Labor would bring a bit more enlightenment to a government that was previously seemed to be out of touch, but they have been infinitely worse. Who would have thought we would pine for the good old days?
That's not the only way to demand it, it just happens to be the way it is framed by the GPL.
If you distribute binaries of ANYTHING in ANY WAY, you are subject to the copyrights. If I don't want my code run on any machine that doesn't have every single instruction running on it free and open, I could write that in my license.
If I want to license my code only to people who will run it on PDP-11 and who promise to sing the national anthem and the source code from the top of Mt Fuji, I can do that too.
They don't claim copyright, the just want something in return. You use my code, I get to use your code. A simple barter system. You don't like the deal, don't use the code.
Of course, you didn't have to use the new MySQL. You could stay with the old one. And if enough people did that, it would end up being a fork.
Some of us could see this was going to happen many years before it happened. A company ran MySQL and a community ran PostgreSQL.
Actually, you wouldn't have to make your program GPL2, you would only have to make it compatible with GPL2. Which usually means GPL2 or something even more liberal like BSD. And only then of course, if you distribute.
I hate it when companies turn their back on a long and proud history because of some brain dead idea by the latest marketdroid. Sure, there are some cases when it has to be done. But then there are cases like this when it is plain stupid.
I'll plunk down a $10,000 bet here and now that this artifical brain aint going to happen.
Bankruptcy doesn't help if you are in jail because the judge thinks you have the money, and you won't cough it up. Bankruptcy would just put you in front of another judge who would presumably put you in jail for the exact same thing.
Because hard drive technology has outpaced tapes etc, I'm afraid they seem to be the only solution as far as I can tell. And if your backup requirements exceed the size of a single drive, yes I think Drobo is the way to go.
Sure I wish there was a tape solution that could do the job, but unless you have major corporate sized budget, I can't find a product that can do it.
So go DROBO as far as I can see. On the other hand, if you've got that much data you probably are already on Drobo, and now need a 2nd one to back it up.
Drobo is good.
Back in my pre-Mac days when I could be bothered with all this stuff, I always assumed as my starting point that nothing works with Linux, until proven otherwise with sufficient research on the internet. Like it or not, the computer parts industry is still basically a Windows world. Nothing works outside Windows unless proven otherwise.
That would be double-plus ungood.
I doubt that it is legal to shamelessly copy material in a jurisdiction that doesn't recognise your copyrights, and then import it, otherwise copyright would collapse. But I'm IANAL.
.92% of windows sales would send slashdot broke and keep hundreds of lawyers in beer and skittles.
All the Macintosh users are gloating, since upgrades, and migrating to new machines seems to be always flawless and painless.