I want to live in a palace on the beach. It isn't economically viable for me to do so, even if I really, really want it. That's life. If you can't support yourself doing what you have in the past, do something else, don't just throw up your hands and give up. Sometimes industries fade away, and sometimes even geographic areas do. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
Certainly, there's a need to help the unemployed become employed, but part of that is advising them that they may need to train in something new, or move to another place.
That textile workers were still chained to their factories. Perhaps we should lobby for some sort of "freedom of movement" clause, to allow people to leave an economically depressed area for greener pastures.
Oh, we already have? So what's you're point, then?
In order to qualify as a trade secret, it has to be a secret. If it gets posted anonymously to the net and everyone and his dog has access to it, it's no longer a trade secret.
They could sue whoever leaked it, but they'd have to know who it was, let alone prove it.
It means you're wrong. Not always, but usually, including this case.
I'm not going to debate the merits of the standard metric system vs. the various and sundry obsolete ones, that's been done quite well before either of us were born. I'm just going to point and laugh at you.
"Copyright", by the way, is not capitalized unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.
US copyright law does not apply outside of its borders. It is perfectly legal in my jurisdiction to record and rebroadcast (in any form I choose) any transmission.
You make a good faith attempt to contact the company (5 minutes will do), and then you call the credit card issuer and instruct them that no further charges are authorized, though you suspect they may attempt to make some.
If they do charge you, they get either a big fine, or dropped by the credit card issuer.
But there's a reason why everyone from indie bloggers to corporate analysts are schlepping around Mac OS X based MacBooks. Yes, fashion, nothing more.
As for the trouble of finding admins, there are several orders of magnitude more available Linux admins than Mac OS admins. I don't mean people who can sit down and use a Mac vs a Linux box, I mean people who are capable of properly and securely managing servers. Granted, it's not going to take someone who knows what they're doing very long to pick up what they'd need to know about OS X as a server platform. However, if you pulled a random sample of competent admins, you'll not likely find many with OS X experience, and those you do will almost certainly also have experience with other Unicies.
The reason you don't see Macs in server rooms isn't any particular problem with Macs, it's that they don't bring anything to the table for the cost. You can get no-OS servers quite easily without paying the "Microsoft tax", but you can't put OS X on them. There's nothing *wrong* with Apple's hardware, but it also isn't any better than anyone elses. It's a commodity.
Tying OS X to a specific brand of a commodity is simply unacceptable for corporate users. Sun was able to get away with it because, at the time, the hardware wasn't a commodity. Now it is, and either you allow your software to run on all systems, or you sit at the kiddy table of fruity "artists".
Corporate clients *like* bland, beige boxes. They don't like tying themselves to a vendor. If Dell goes kookie, and starts insisting on putting high end graphics cards in every box, they can simply switch to another vendor with minimal hassle. Without the ability to migrate OS X between vendors, Apple is too high of a risk for any responsible corporation to use.
And that's on the desktop. Apple has no place in the server room. They bring nothing to the table that others don't do better, cheaper, and faster. The fact that they eat their own dog food doesn't mitigate this.
I need the ability to plug my mp3 player into any random computer to copy music onto and off of it, because I learn about new music almost exclusively from having friends give it to me. This is legal in my jurisdiction (Canada), so don't get all huffy about copyright on me.
Sure, they *might* be able to prevent them from distributing the firmware itself, but the hardware owner already has that as part of the vendor supplied driver. The OSS driver can simply harvest it from that.
If they're based in the US (say, VISA and gmail), the US can simply grab it via the PATRIOT act. Though this is more of an argument for not sharing any potentially sensitive information with American companies.
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Now, think about why it's a terrible idea.
I want to live in a palace on the beach. It isn't economically viable for me to do so, even if I really, really want it. That's life. If you can't support yourself doing what you have in the past, do something else, don't just throw up your hands and give up. Sometimes industries fade away, and sometimes even geographic areas do. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
Certainly, there's a need to help the unemployed become employed, but part of that is advising them that they may need to train in something new, or move to another place.
Deposit a nominal amount in a bank account, and let compound interest pay for any problems 1,400 years down the road.
Long term thinking is all well and good, but this is silly.
That textile workers were still chained to their factories. Perhaps we should lobby for some sort of "freedom of movement" clause, to allow people to leave an economically depressed area for greener pastures.
Oh, we already have? So what's you're point, then?
Do you know what SCM is?
In order to qualify as a trade secret, it has to be a secret. If it gets posted anonymously to the net and everyone and his dog has access to it, it's no longer a trade secret.
They could sue whoever leaked it, but they'd have to know who it was, let alone prove it.
Take away copyrights, and any employee can leak your source, and there's nothing you can do about it.
It means you're wrong. Not always, but usually, including this case.
I'm not going to debate the merits of the standard metric system vs. the various and sundry obsolete ones, that's been done quite well before either of us were born. I'm just going to point and laugh at you.
Which is one sixth of 10.
So that would make you, what, a community college drop out?
You use the imperial metric system, everyone else in the world uses the standard metric sytem.
Because they are French words.
Done.
And the plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
"Copyright", by the way, is not capitalized unless it is at the beginning of a sentence.
US copyright law does not apply outside of its borders. It is perfectly legal in my jurisdiction to record and rebroadcast (in any form I choose) any transmission.
Rebroadcasting is specifically allowed in some jurisdictions (such as Canada).
You make a good faith attempt to contact the company (5 minutes will do), and then you call the credit card issuer and instruct them that no further charges are authorized, though you suspect they may attempt to make some.
If they do charge you, they get either a big fine, or dropped by the credit card issuer.
As for the trouble of finding admins, there are several orders of magnitude more available Linux admins than Mac OS admins. I don't mean people who can sit down and use a Mac vs a Linux box, I mean people who are capable of properly and securely managing servers. Granted, it's not going to take someone who knows what they're doing very long to pick up what they'd need to know about OS X as a server platform. However, if you pulled a random sample of competent admins, you'll not likely find many with OS X experience, and those you do will almost certainly also have experience with other Unicies.
The reason you don't see Macs in server rooms isn't any particular problem with Macs, it's that they don't bring anything to the table for the cost. You can get no-OS servers quite easily without paying the "Microsoft tax", but you can't put OS X on them. There's nothing *wrong* with Apple's hardware, but it also isn't any better than anyone elses. It's a commodity.
Tying OS X to a specific brand of a commodity is simply unacceptable for corporate users. Sun was able to get away with it because, at the time, the hardware wasn't a commodity. Now it is, and either you allow your software to run on all systems, or you sit at the kiddy table of fruity "artists".
Corporate clients *like* bland, beige boxes. They don't like tying themselves to a vendor. If Dell goes kookie, and starts insisting on putting high end graphics cards in every box, they can simply switch to another vendor with minimal hassle. Without the ability to migrate OS X between vendors, Apple is too high of a risk for any responsible corporation to use.
And that's on the desktop. Apple has no place in the server room. They bring nothing to the table that others don't do better, cheaper, and faster. The fact that they eat their own dog food doesn't mitigate this.
Period.
Until OS X can run on Dells, it is inappropriate for corporate use.
I need the ability to plug my mp3 player into any random computer to copy music onto and off of it, because I learn about new music almost exclusively from having friends give it to me. This is legal in my jurisdiction (Canada), so don't get all huffy about copyright on me.
It's not really practical, especially for laptops, but it's a great proof of concept.
So long as we need fans to manage temperature. Those are much, much cheaper to replace, though.
Sure, they *might* be able to prevent them from distributing the firmware itself, but the hardware owner already has that as part of the vendor supplied driver. The OSS driver can simply harvest it from that.
I'm smarter than you are.
Are in the EU.
If they're based in the US (say, VISA and gmail), the US can simply grab it via the PATRIOT act. Though this is more of an argument for not sharing any potentially sensitive information with American companies.