- Jailbreaking breaks the security on the iPhone, thus putting the tools in violation of the DMCA - The LoC granted an exception to the DMCA for jailbreaking tools in the interest of enabling compatibility.
It's part of the DMCA, and its complete and total pro-corporate bias. All you jailbreaking Apple fans should watch as Apple fights the exemption renewal. They hate you and want you back in the box, and to never talk about it.
But it had some nice things, and is also based on a Linux core. So, hopefully, there will be some cross-polination with Android.
Android is so insular I don't expect anything to make the leap. The webOS core was so close to a common Linux platform (sdl, glibc, etc.) that games transplanted relatively easily to Maemo. If anything, you could see some cross pollination with initiatives like Mer or Tizen, once Samsung and Intel get that off the ground.
I own a single share. If it split I could sell one and see some return on the investment. Same for a dividend. Until then it's immaterial wealth that could vanish before it is claimed.
Unlike Apple, Exxon deals in commodities with inelastic demand. It could be argued more readily, I suppose, that Apple actually earned those profits while Exxon gains them purely of virtue of having pumped it out of the ground. YMMV.
Personally, I would have more respect for Apple if they started paying a dividend.
Why should shareholders care? It's not like they're paying dividends, and it's not like it's reasonable or affordable to buy into Apple at the current sky high share price.
I'll give a shit about Apple's high stock price when it splits or they start actually paying out dividends to their investors. Until then it's just a bubble you hope you exit before it pops.
But don't the colleges already have you locked in?
I can always change colleges. And changing colleges does not negate the contents of the book, whereas I cannot access the contents of an Apple-dependent iBook from another platform (at least, not without bending over backwards.)
There is no choice other than trying to get your hands on something used.
A less known option is to buy the international version of some books, same content but a fraction of the price.
At least iBooks is cheaper. It's also a heck of a lot easier to carry to class. And how can you possibly argue with [i]searchable[/i]? There are so many advantages over dead trees it's almost magical.
None of which are in any way an Apple exclusive feature.
or you can BUY the book for $230, and the book store will give you $55 for it at the end of the semester.
Or you can pay your friend more than the store will, and get more mileage out of it. I don't recall books turning over that fast or costing so much, but then I didn't go to a wildly overpriced university. And in any case, you can always keep the book (I still own most of mine.)
But you're bitching about one point (cost of books) while trying to defend another (lock-in to Apple's platform.)
I'll happily give Apple their book lock-in all day long if it saves me a few grand on textbooks. Wouldn't you?
No, I'm not so foolish as to dive head first into brand lock-in. I like having my books exist independent of one company's platform. Platform dependent books, who would have thought such nonsense would ever actually happen?
This is a problem that needs to be solved, but doing it by being stuck forever on one company's platform because they're severely anti-competitive is just stupid.
Really, before smartphones even came out, this was a problem everyone had to put up with
Yep, I remember that. It was disappointing and sucked. I was always interested in the Windows Mobile devices, at least the ones that weren't deliberately crippled by the carrier (lol Verizon.)
This push to return us to those bad old days sucks, especially as devices are even more connected and powerful than ever. The worst is the spread of it into tablets and, slowly, into desktop PCs.
No one wanted horse buggy whips. Everyone wants what the media companies are producing. The only obsolete aspects are the business models and sales channels.
just read a little more about all the food and radiation scandals going on.
Do you have any reliable sources on the amounts of radiation found in the food? Last I recall it was such that the food would give you the equivalent of a quarter of a chest x-ray per year.
For the comparison with Chernobyl... at least the Russian evacuated cities and got the plant under cocoon in less than 9 month, here the japanese are still in denial and only accept to acknowledge problems when they are cought red faced.
Fortunately, none of the reactor vessels were blown open with the cores on fire. That's why they built a sarcophagus over Chernobyl.
It could all be at a pile near the bottom of the reactor vessel and it simply can't be seen yet. If there was a meltdown, this is the most likely case. Then they need to look inside the containment vessel (which the reactor vessel is inside) and check the reactor vessel from below to see if there was any escape. Don't know if they've done this.
Well then they can get out of the adoption business, which is very full of legal concerns. No accepting state money without being subject to restrictions the state has to exist under.
Years ago, I suspect you would have used another word instead of "progressive." It's an epithet coming from you and little more.
The rest of your insane little rant here is incredible in its utter madness. I think I'll take anything I ever see you write here on Slashdot with this pearl in mind.
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Except that this isn't going through Congress. It goes through the Library of Congress.
Because of this:
- Jailbreaking breaks the security on the iPhone, thus putting the tools in violation of the DMCA
- The LoC granted an exception to the DMCA for jailbreaking tools in the interest of enabling compatibility.
It's part of the DMCA, and its complete and total pro-corporate bias. All you jailbreaking Apple fans should watch as Apple fights the exemption renewal. They hate you and want you back in the box, and to never talk about it.
You should care. If you don't, you're just handing the reins over to someone who will fuck you over with force of law.
And if you don't care, you're half the problem.
I asked this the last time it came up:
Do the adblock extensions actively stop the URLs from being accessed, or do they simply hide the images/kill accesses in progress?
Not people using, people redistributing.
Minor nitpick.
I know, why would anyone ever challenge an incumbent?
Android is so insular I don't expect anything to make the leap. The webOS core was so close to a common Linux platform (sdl, glibc, etc.) that games transplanted relatively easily to Maemo. If anything, you could see some cross pollination with initiatives like Mer or Tizen, once Samsung and Intel get that off the ground.
I own a single share. If it split I could sell one and see some return on the investment. Same for a dividend. Until then it's immaterial wealth that could vanish before it is claimed.
Unlike Apple, Exxon deals in commodities with inelastic demand. It could be argued more readily, I suppose, that Apple actually earned those profits while Exxon gains them purely of virtue of having pumped it out of the ground. YMMV.
Personally, I would have more respect for Apple if they started paying a dividend.
Why should shareholders care? It's not like they're paying dividends, and it's not like it's reasonable or affordable to buy into Apple at the current sky high share price.
Woo, SuperKendall the Apple Zealot strikes again.
I'll give a shit about Apple's high stock price when it splits or they start actually paying out dividends to their investors. Until then it's just a bubble you hope you exit before it pops.
Really? How is any of this true?
Please. The format is not what is being used to push the lock-in...
I can always change colleges. And changing colleges does not negate the contents of the book, whereas I cannot access the contents of an Apple-dependent iBook from another platform (at least, not without bending over backwards.)
A less known option is to buy the international version of some books, same content but a fraction of the price.
None of which are in any way an Apple exclusive feature.
Or you can pay your friend more than the store will, and get more mileage out of it. I don't recall books turning over that fast or costing so much, but then I didn't go to a wildly overpriced university. And in any case, you can always keep the book (I still own most of mine.)
But you're bitching about one point (cost of books) while trying to defend another (lock-in to Apple's platform.)
No, I'm not so foolish as to dive head first into brand lock-in. I like having my books exist independent of one company's platform. Platform dependent books, who would have thought such nonsense would ever actually happen?
This is a problem that needs to be solved, but doing it by being stuck forever on one company's platform because they're severely anti-competitive is just stupid.
Yep, I remember that. It was disappointing and sucked. I was always interested in the Windows Mobile devices, at least the ones that weren't deliberately crippled by the carrier (lol Verizon.)
This push to return us to those bad old days sucks, especially as devices are even more connected and powerful than ever. The worst is the spread of it into tablets and, slowly, into desktop PCs.
Difference:
No one wanted horse buggy whips. Everyone wants what the media companies are producing. The only obsolete aspects are the business models and sales channels.
Err, he asked about the core. I answered.
Go start a new thread, please.
Do you have any reliable sources on the amounts of radiation found in the food? Last I recall it was such that the food would give you the equivalent of a quarter of a chest x-ray per year.
Fortunately, none of the reactor vessels were blown open with the cores on fire. That's why they built a sarcophagus over Chernobyl.
It could all be at a pile near the bottom of the reactor vessel and it simply can't be seen yet. If there was a meltdown, this is the most likely case. Then they need to look inside the containment vessel (which the reactor vessel is inside) and check the reactor vessel from below to see if there was any escape. Don't know if they've done this.
You wouldn't happen to be an aspiring member of the FLDS, would you?
What numbers? Can you cite any?
Really? I've never seen NAMBLA mentioned outside of Slashdot, and even the only by trolls.
Man, you sound reasonable in other topics but here you just lose your mind and go full retard.
Well then they can get out of the adoption business, which is very full of legal concerns. No accepting state money without being subject to restrictions the state has to exist under.
Years ago, I suspect you would have used another word instead of "progressive." It's an epithet coming from you and little more.
The rest of your insane little rant here is incredible in its utter madness. I think I'll take anything I ever see you write here on Slashdot with this pearl in mind.
Hey, jmorris42, question for you.
Is this thread, and the sound thrashing you are receiving, feeding your persecution complex like you wanted?