would probaly pay $500 for a computer case with a red light in it.
As oposed to the people that are paying how much for case mods of neon lights? clear sides? Round cables? Lets face it geeks pay for looks regardless of wether they use PCs or Macs
I'm actualy on Microsoft's side this time arround. As great as it would be for them to have to pay to release their products, InterTrust sort of represents the bigger evil here. Here is a company that went to the patent office with an idea, but no product, and applied for the patent. Then they rcieved the patent and began developing a product, which they evidently had other companies investing millions in and then never truely turned out a product. From what I read of the article, they turned out an essentialy cleaned up version of their patent and told the companies now you just have to write the software to make it work. They have since shut down that side of business and now spend their days doing what? Sitting on patents waiting for someone to make a similar product and then claim ownership? They don't have a product, and you can't patent and idea. I hope M$ wins this one.
If these things catch on, they'll kill the pop-under market.
In the meantime, I recomend picking up a little program called the Proxomitron. An excelent pop-up, java, flash and other web elements blocker. Any code you find annoying, you can simply tell it to block. You can create new filters, modify old filters and customize it right down to which sites which filters can apply to. Very nice program.
Except in this case, the 75% profit is going to the band as opposed to the record lable. Besides, $10 for 2-3 hours or music is well worth it, considering you couldn't go th ethe concert for that price.
Not nessesarily true. Apple requires the release of code when a version is deployed. From their agreement deployed means:
1.4"Deploy" means to use, sublicense or distribute Covered Code other than for Your internal research and development (R&D) and/or Personal Use, and includes without limitation, any and all internal use or distribution of Covered Code within Your business or organization except for R&D use and/or Personal Use, as well as direct or indirect sublicensing or distribution of Covered Code by You to any third party in any form or manner.
Emphasis mine. Clearly if it's a private modification for yourself, there is no need to release the source.
I think that design details and plans, regardless of whether they were specificaly stated as "Trade Secrets" are considered stuff, espesialy at a company that sells what it designs
While I agree that Apple is fully in it's rights to go after this guy, there was a story on slashdot a little while back about a guy who's former employer sued him for a product which he designed on his free time while working for the company.
Now wait a second. As I understand it, if I modify and redistribute GPL code, my new code and modifications must be distributed when I distribute such code.
If I modify and redistribute APSL code, the new code and modifications must also be distributed.
Noir - Fairly dark, plot revolves arround 2 female assasins, one who doesn't know who she is.
Nadesico - Sort of a spoof on Anime, takes all the cliches rolls them into one giant mess and lays it out in an amusing series. The movie was good too.
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 - Haven't seen the original series this was based off of, but guns girls and explosions are usualy a good combination.
Ra Xephon - Dark wierd, and leaves you with more questions than answers
Azumanga Daioh - It's wierd, it's funny and worth watching.
Escaflowne - I personaly liked the series better than the movie, a very cool mech/fantasy anime.
Out of curiosity, did you hate Kirby? Seriously, do you know how many people stay away from kirby because it's a little ball of cute? Kirby was a great game though.
As said in the story, the phone number he was given went to a cell phone, the adress whent to another phone. Do you have any idea how easy it is to scam fedex? Have an item sent to an adress fed-ex. Track said item. Stand outside of adress pretentding to do yard work during deliviery day. Intercept fed-ex man before he gets to the door. Sign for package. The adress had to be verified another way.
It wouldn't have mattered if he went through the ebay process or not. Ebay only insures up to $200 ($170 after fees) and they tell you to take it up with the banks and credit card companies first. Ebay really doesn't offer protection.
It is $200 but there are some funky twists and turns in there that can cut it down a bit. I think the actualy ammount comes out to something like $170. It's not bad but it's still another $30 your'e out. Use a creditcard instead, when they don't deliver the goods, cancel payment.
Mac users are very protective of their computers, and will go to great lengths to ensure that people don't steal them. Theres a similar story floating about how one person had their mac stolen from thier house and used tibuktu and some funky apple scripts to trace the mac to a house. Long story short, police show up, find stolen computers, guy gets his computer back.
Just cause PC users are accustomed to losing money in bad investments doesn't mean that mac users are.
Microsoft and Real incorporate Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology in their file format, giving companies an added feeling of security when publishing their content. This, Jones thinks, could be a disadvantage for Apple.
"The big hurdle that QuickTime has to clear is that it isn't a nicely bundled solution of video creation management and security," said Jones. "They don't have some of the content management and DRM capabilities that Real and Microsoft have."
Everyone else calls that a plus. No DRM, no security, less crap to deal with.
On another note, someone was asking whether there was truly a greater demand for this than a Linux port of QT. Perhaps there is, but also, this could be a way to pave the road for video phones.
That's cause they probably figure the linux users went through enough crap just to get the system running.
Seriously though, it's probably has something to do that in terms of developing and advancing, the windows version is top on their list. Like everything linux, just wait a few years and it will be up to par with everything else, popups, bloats and all.
That maybe just maybe, since Apple is due to be releasing a new lineup of machines (remember the announcment that nothing after january would start into OS 9) than they stopped buying more to clear out their stock. perhaps price drops all arround and the 15inch just is being phased out.
Universities used to be hotbeds of politicial, social, and scientific development, thought, and research.
That stopped being true the moment College became a natural extention of ones learning and not for the professionals. Let's face it, so many people that have a degree would have been better off just entering the work force. Their degree does nothing for them, they're still low paid and they're 4 years behind practical experience.
1) Only if you build your own PC. And that has been established already. You can always make your own for less than you can buy it. So what?
2) Like......... raw data crunching? yeah, you're right. But some of use don't do raw data 24/7.
3) You mean like my old Powermac 5400/180, originaly speced at 180Mhz pre-G3 processor (I forget the number), I think maybe 64k cache, 16 MB of memory and a 1.5 gig HD. Now it's speced at 300 Mhz G3, 256k cache, 142 MB RAM, 40 Gig HD. ANd this was one of the education macs which weren't supposed to be upgradeable at all. Or perhaps you're reffering to the G4 towers? The ones with teh PCI slots, open drive bays, plenty of room for memory? Yep, no upgrades to be found there.
4) Hmmm, right bringing more developers over to your platform limits the hardware.
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would probaly pay $500 for a computer case with a red light in it.
As oposed to the people that are paying how much for case mods of neon lights? clear sides? Round cables? Lets face it geeks pay for looks regardless of wether they use PCs or Macs
I'm actualy on Microsoft's side this time arround. As great as it would be for them to have to pay to release their products, InterTrust sort of represents the bigger evil here. Here is a company that went to the patent office with an idea, but no product, and applied for the patent. Then they rcieved the patent and began developing a product, which they evidently had other companies investing millions in and then never truely turned out a product. From what I read of the article, they turned out an essentialy cleaned up version of their patent and told the companies now you just have to write the software to make it work. They have since shut down that side of business and now spend their days doing what? Sitting on patents waiting for someone to make a similar product and then claim ownership? They don't have a product, and you can't patent and idea. I hope M$ wins this one.
If these things catch on, they'll kill the pop-under market.
In the meantime, I recomend picking up a little program called the Proxomitron. An excelent pop-up, java, flash and other web elements blocker. Any code you find annoying, you can simply tell it to block. You can create new filters, modify old filters and customize it right down to which sites which filters can apply to. Very nice program.
Except in this case, the 75% profit is going to the band as opposed to the record lable. Besides, $10 for 2-3 hours or music is well worth it, considering you couldn't go th ethe concert for that price.
Not nessesarily true. Apple requires the release of code when a version is deployed. From their agreement deployed means:
1.4"Deploy" means to use, sublicense or distribute Covered Code other than for Your internal research and development (R&D) and/or Personal Use, and includes without limitation, any and all internal use or distribution of Covered Code within Your business or organization except for R&D use and/or Personal Use, as well as direct or indirect sublicensing or distribution of Covered Code by You to any third party in any form or manner.
Emphasis mine. Clearly if it's a private modification for yourself, there is no need to release the source.
I think that design details and plans, regardless of whether they were specificaly stated as "Trade Secrets" are considered stuff, espesialy at a company that sells what it designs
While I agree that Apple is fully in it's rights to go after this guy, there was a story on slashdot a little while back about a guy who's former employer sued him for a product which he designed on his free time while working for the company.
Now wait a second. As I understand it, if I modify and redistribute GPL code, my new code and modifications must be distributed when I distribute such code.
If I modify and redistribute APSL code, the new code and modifications must also be distributed.
What is the difference?
do it
Noir - Fairly dark, plot revolves arround 2 female assasins, one who doesn't know who she is.
Nadesico - Sort of a spoof on Anime, takes all the cliches rolls them into one giant mess and lays it out in an amusing series. The movie was good too.
Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 - Haven't seen the original series this was based off of, but guns girls and explosions are usualy a good combination.
Ra Xephon - Dark wierd, and leaves you with more questions than answers
Azumanga Daioh - It's wierd, it's funny and worth watching.
Escaflowne - I personaly liked the series better than the movie, a very cool mech/fantasy anime.
Out of curiosity, did you hate Kirby? Seriously, do you know how many people stay away from kirby because it's a little ball of cute? Kirby was a great game though.
As said in the story, the phone number he was given went to a cell phone, the adress whent to another phone. Do you have any idea how easy it is to scam fedex? Have an item sent to an adress fed-ex. Track said item. Stand outside of adress pretentding to do yard work during deliviery day. Intercept fed-ex man before he gets to the door. Sign for package. The adress had to be verified another way.
It wouldn't have mattered if he went through the ebay process or not. Ebay only insures up to $200 ($170 after fees) and they tell you to take it up with the banks and credit card companies first. Ebay really doesn't offer protection.
It is $200 but there are some funky twists and turns in there that can cut it down a bit. I think the actualy ammount comes out to something like $170. It's not bad but it's still another $30 your'e out. Use a creditcard instead, when they don't deliver the goods, cancel payment.
They would if people would buy it. But mac user won't buy it. Hell they can't even get all the PC users to buy it.
Where in the article did you get the impression he thought all PC users were bad?
Mac users are very protective of their computers, and will go to great lengths to ensure that people don't steal them. Theres a similar story floating about how one person had their mac stolen from thier house and used tibuktu and some funky apple scripts to trace the mac to a house. Long story short, police show up, find stolen computers, guy gets his computer back.
Just cause PC users are accustomed to losing money in bad investments doesn't mean that mac users are.
[Yes, that last statement is a troll]
Microsoft and Real incorporate Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology in their file format, giving companies an added feeling of security when publishing their content. This, Jones thinks, could be a disadvantage for Apple.
"The big hurdle that QuickTime has to clear is that it isn't a nicely bundled solution of video creation management and security," said Jones. "They don't have some of the content management and DRM capabilities that Real and Microsoft have."
Everyone else calls that a plus. No DRM, no security, less crap to deal with.
On another note, someone was asking whether there was truly a greater demand for this than a Linux port of QT. Perhaps there is, but also, this could be a way to pave the road for video phones.
That's cause they probably figure the linux users went through enough crap just to get the system running.
Seriously though, it's probably has something to do that in terms of developing and advancing, the windows version is top on their list. Like everything linux, just wait a few years and it will be up to par with everything else, popups, bloats and all.
That maybe just maybe, since Apple is due to be releasing a new lineup of machines (remember the announcment that nothing after january would start into OS 9) than they stopped buying more to clear out their stock. perhaps price drops all arround and the 15inch just is being phased out.
Universities used to be hotbeds of politicial, social, and scientific development, thought, and research.
That stopped being true the moment College became a natural extention of ones learning and not for the professionals. Let's face it, so many people that have a degree would have been better off just entering the work force. Their degree does nothing for them, they're still low paid and they're 4 years behind practical experience.
As opposed to the really exiting stories like:
Another No-name company adopts linux
Intel releases faster processors
Microsoft products have bugs
New software released
DMCA used in another crappy suit
Another stupid patent granted
Come on. If Slashdot was meant to be exciting, it wouldn't be news for nerds.
Note: The above is not flamebait or trolling, it was self depreciating humor.
1) Only if you build your own PC. And that has been established already. You can always make your own for less than you can buy it. So what?
2) Like......... raw data crunching? yeah, you're right. But some of use don't do raw data 24/7.
3) You mean like my old Powermac 5400/180, originaly speced at 180Mhz pre-G3 processor (I forget the number), I think maybe 64k cache, 16 MB of memory and a 1.5 gig HD. Now it's speced at 300 Mhz G3, 256k cache, 142 MB RAM, 40 Gig HD. ANd this was one of the education macs which weren't supposed to be upgradeable at all. Or perhaps you're reffering to the G4 towers? The ones with teh PCI slots, open drive bays, plenty of room for memory? Yep, no upgrades to be found there.
4) Hmmm, right bringing more developers over to your platform limits the hardware.
Only the windows version.
But the viaos are nearly as expensive as a mac, which sort of negates the price/performance issue.