Truest statement I've read on Slashdot in a long time. I am sure I am counted as one of the 160,000 since I downloaded the SDK once (to get the emulator). I have written ZERO PalmOS apps and don't plan to ever start. I'm sure I'm couted at least twice. I was assigned to create some demo app on Palm around 1998, which I did. Then, around 2002 I created another demo application for Palm for a different company. Both companies decided against creating apps for Palm, but did do apps for Windows CE.
I find it very difficult to imagine where the line would be drawn and I can't see how this wouldn't be protected by the 1st amendment (except that it is Oz so they don't have freedom of speech.)
I would go see it if Mathew Broddrick were playing the father of the hacker and they had this film have continuity with the original film - i.e. bring back some of the characters who were kids then as adults now, inside jokes on the old film, etc.
In my opinion, if he has already submitted the bugs to Apple (easy to do - visit bugreport.apple.com) and they haven't fixed them yet - then in my opinion, what he is doing is totally OK. If he didn't at least file a bug with Apple, while he may (or may not, IANAL), be in legal troubel, he is at the very least kind of a jerk.
Actually this one went through the courts and there were arguments that libraries shouldn't have copy machines. If you notice, they usually post the relevant portion of copyright law next to the copy machine at most libraries.
What we don't understand is the point of law that he used to justify his ruling. What we don't understand is how we are protected from this kind of charge when we are not trying to do anything related to music.
Wasn't there an attempt to force a label on every appliance saying "this device will cost you $x.xx per month if it's kept running" or some such? Can't remember. That would definitely make a lot of sense. They have that for major appliances. Go look at refrigerators next time you are at home depot or best buy. There's a yellow sticker on the front that says how much it costs to run it for a year.
I've converted most of my house - but I keep wondering what's going to happen to all that mercury once they do eventually wear out. I'm not aware of any place in my town that will recycle them. Depends on where you live, but usually you want to call the people that run your local dump. They will be able to tell you the correct way to dispose of hazardous waste in your area.
My wife switched us completely to compact flourescents a few years ago. It has saved a bunch of money.
If you tried to engineer something like USB in the 80s, it would have been cost prohibitive. USB took tremendous efforts to bring the whole industry together. ADB was created by one guy, Woz, in a few weeks. And ADB worked very, very well and was very reliable and it was amazingly cheap to manufacure. That would be like calling the carburetor a failure because it has been replaced by fuel injection.
Also, I would not call AppleTalk a failure either. It did a lot to help people who were trying to network groups of Mac systems together. For its time, it was a good system. The fact that the industry standardized on IP does not mean AppleTalk was a failure. In fact, the whole ZeroConf effort comes out of trying to bring discovery that AppleTalk had from the beginning to IP networks.
And calling MacOS a failure? Give me a break. I suppose DOS was a failure. And the Apple II. And the telegraph.
Without Microsoft, you would probably still be using MacOS Classic on a PowerPC, dreaming of the day you could smoothly run multiple tasks and not have one crashing program bring down the whole OS with it There were plenty of other competitors to the Mac besides Microsoft Windows: Amiga, NeXT, GEM, etc. Apple would still have been forced to innovate, or maybe they would have been steamrolled by PCs running NeXT, or the Amiga.
I guess that by your own definition of monopoly, Standard Oil wasn't a monopoly, as they only controlled 91% of U.S. production at their highest ? Pre-breakup AT&T wasn't a monopoly because certain areas in the US had phone service from GTE.
The subtle difference between the way I wrote it and using the word "said" is that I'm conveying the fact that I don't remember the conversation verbatim.
Those scars are a badge of honor, denying your child the same honor is just wrong. I should get a viscious dog and let it bite her on the face? Mmmm...No.
One thing that was somewhat surprising was that a few girl toys made the list (cabbage patch and sky dancers).
Also, the motorcycle one that jams the throttle sounds really dangerous. The kids didn't do anything wrong - it was just defective.
I'm surprised the Honda Kick and Go didn't make the list. I remember that I got one of those as a kid just before they were pulled off the market because they were dangerous (I'm not sure exactly why they were dangerous.)
My parents still have mine, I think. The last time I was at their house, they had my daughter riding it and I was like "no way - those things were recalled" and they were like "you rode it and you are still alive" and I was all like "yeah, and you guys kept a vicious dog that mauled children and I have scars on my face to prove it, so I'm not interested in hearing parenting advice from you".
I think it is on there because there was a recall on the product that was very big in the news at the time.
I had one of these. One thing I liked about it was that it would shoot that missle really far. (Which is probably why it was so effective at shooting it down the kid's throat.)
Well, only if you're a catholic or similar. Most religions, even forms of christianity, don't expect you not to think. In fact many believe that faith is strongest when it has been tested. Few religions have the history of the catholic church, actively suppressing education so that people couldn't learn to read the bible and find out that the clergy is full of shit. The catholic church (today) isn't trying to claim a literal belief in creationism. Certain protestant crackpots are.
The book of Genesis is not about the "why"... it is the what, how, and when to many misguided fundamentalist Christians and Jews. This is precisely why I believe that the abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), are fundamentally flawed. And this is why I went looking for another belief system and found one that I liked: atheism.
As a creationist, I'd be content with a statement saying that evolution isn't proven, with no specific reference to creationism...most of us just have a problem with it being taught as a fact instead of a theory. As long as you are OK with my atheist group coming to your church and giving a short presentation to the children about God not being scientifically proven to exist, then I'm OK with your proposal.
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There are inexpensive third party covers for the built-in iSight that stay on real well and don't damage the computer/camera.
I find it very difficult to imagine where the line would be drawn and I can't see how this wouldn't be protected by the 1st amendment (except that it is Oz so they don't have freedom of speech.)
I would go see it if Mathew Broddrick were playing the father of the hacker and they had this film have continuity with the original film - i.e. bring back some of the characters who were kids then as adults now, inside jokes on the old film, etc.
In my opinion, if he has already submitted the bugs to Apple (easy to do - visit bugreport.apple.com) and they haven't fixed them yet - then in my opinion, what he is doing is totally OK. If he didn't at least file a bug with Apple, while he may (or may not, IANAL), be in legal troubel, he is at the very least kind of a jerk.
He didn't claim that any of the cameras were operated by the military. I don't understand your point at all.
Actually this one went through the courts and there were arguments that libraries shouldn't have copy machines. If you notice, they usually post the relevant portion of copyright law next to the copy machine at most libraries.
What we don't understand is the point of law that he used to justify his ruling. What we don't understand is how we are protected from this kind of charge when we are not trying to do anything related to music.
My wife switched us completely to compact flourescents a few years ago. It has saved a bunch of money.
If you tried to engineer something like USB in the 80s, it would have been cost prohibitive. USB took tremendous efforts to bring the whole industry together. ADB was created by one guy, Woz, in a few weeks. And ADB worked very, very well and was very reliable and it was amazingly cheap to manufacure. That would be like calling the carburetor a failure because it has been replaced by fuel injection.
Also, I would not call AppleTalk a failure either. It did a lot to help people who were trying to network groups of Mac systems together. For its time, it was a good system. The fact that the industry standardized on IP does not mean AppleTalk was a failure. In fact, the whole ZeroConf effort comes out of trying to bring discovery that AppleTalk had from the beginning to IP networks.
And calling MacOS a failure? Give me a break. I suppose DOS was a failure. And the Apple II. And the telegraph.
You are an ignorant Microsoft fanboy.
Please don't redefine words as you wish.
I guess that by your own definition of monopoly, Standard Oil wasn't a monopoly, as they only controlled 91% of U.S. production at their highest ? Pre-breakup AT&T wasn't a monopoly because certain areas in the US had phone service from GTE.
The subtle difference between the way I wrote it and using the word "said" is that I'm conveying the fact that I don't remember the conversation verbatim.
One thing that was somewhat surprising was that a few girl toys made the list (cabbage patch and sky dancers).
Also, the motorcycle one that jams the throttle sounds really dangerous. The kids didn't do anything wrong - it was just defective.
I'm surprised the Honda Kick and Go didn't make the list. I remember that I got one of those as a kid just before they were pulled off the market because they were dangerous (I'm not sure exactly why they were dangerous.)
My parents still have mine, I think. The last time I was at their house, they had my daughter riding it and I was like "no way - those things were recalled" and they were like "you rode it and you are still alive" and I was all like "yeah, and you guys kept a vicious dog that mauled children and I have scars on my face to prove it, so I'm not interested in hearing parenting advice from you".
So, there you go.
I think it is on there because there was a recall on the product that was very big in the news at the time.
I had one of these. One thing I liked about it was that it would shoot that missle really far. (Which is probably why it was so effective at shooting it down the kid's throat.)
- Those bitching that Finder is not like the the Classic Finder.
- Those bitching that Finder is not like the NeXT Finder.
- Switchers.
In other words, former Mac users, former NeXT users, and former Windows users.