I think what every one has missed is that even if Media Sentry is authorized to have a copy the person delivering it IE the distributor (in this case the defendant) is still not authorized to provide that copy. So even though Media Sentry are authorized to receive it, you are still in the wrong to provide it for them to download and by downloading it they prove you are illegally distributing their files. I am not a lawyer but this seems obvious to me so it must be to the legal people.
The Eula that you agree to when you begin to use Visual Studio forbids you from developing a word processor that could compete with any Office product. There are clauses in there to force you to take any prodcut off the market that MS doesn't like. You pay between $400 and $10,000 for the development system and it is still restricted. Granted there are sort of free alternatives but not for WinMobile development at least I haven't seen one yet.
Having learned most of my programming languages before there was an internet I'm not sure of any web available references. I use books.
Quaint and old fashioned I know but what the heck. Oh and when I don't use books I use Google. Saves having to remember where I put those pesky links to all those programming language web sites.
What I always wondered was WHY when I merely move a device from one USB port to another I have to re-install the drivers. This is a nasty bit of work for me 'cause when I'm moving my scanner to my PC from my mac I don't always remember what port it was in. And windows can't seem to find all the parts of the already installed and previously working drivers and I never remember where I put the latest version of the driver I had to install last time this happened.
And sometimes a device will stop working on one port but when I move it to another it works again after I figure out where the driver parts are.
None of this happens on my macbook so is it Windows only that does this? Come to think of it this never happened under OS 9 either. And it certainly doesn't happen under linux (I use ubuntu and debian).
And, precisely because there is no competition and it is difficult to impossible for new players to enter the market, you no longer have much incentive to innovate or keep your prices low. Consumers suffer accordingly.
Define suffer, what gives you and any consumer the right to relief from suffering? Besides, market saturation and several other factors will self limit the prices, and like Coke a Pepsi will come along and steal a bit of your market. Economics is a rather complex subject and this over simplification of "They own it so they are Evil" crap is annoying.
I'm sorry I forgot to set the SARCASM bit on that reply, I was actually saying exactly the opposite to what you just pointed out. "It doesn't work for me so it must not work for anybody" is just as lame.
Thank you for playing, Captain Obvious to the rescue!
I was also going to give you a lame reply to this about your lack of imagination in the places you might want to put images, but you pretty much covered all the bases there too. Good job!
Actually you are quite wrong and simply don't understand econimics 101. Competition does not exist to "ensure" (I'm almost certain that's the wrong word) the consumer anything. It exists and that is the capitalist economic system. The law of supply and demand insures that competition will occur when there is more than one point of supply. But if you have the only supply (Like you invented it and you keep how you make it secret) then there is naturally no competition as long as the situation remains the same.
You can't have the competition and complain when someone wins.
Having cake and eating it too is a no no.
The law of supply and demand require that you make it harder for your rivals to get market share. It is when you use illegal means to obtain that market share that a problem exists.
Believe me signing exclusive contracts with suppliers is not illegal. If you simply out compete your rivals then where's your complaint? When you have the best/only supply and demand is great you have the perfect combination. I see no problem with that. Why must there be barriers to competition?
I assume that your sig is rhetorical? You could ask the Shakers.
From the discussion I'm reading (not here exclusively either) it would appear that everybody thinks that any one having a superior position in the market is evil. Sorry but by that definition I want the most evil company on the planet.
Cornering the market on a commodity is the time honored method of gaining ground on the competition. After all a competition has both winners and losers. It would appear you all don't want a competition you want a communism where everybody shares the market equally with no one having any advantage. Sorry folks that's not how it works.
Get over it folks we live in a capitalist economy there will be losers and there will be winners, quit whining. Look up the definition of Competition.
I'm confused, Microsoft claims great sales of Vista. which is it?
We have a bus service where I live that's has a big Vista on the side of the bus, kind of reminds me of the Microsoft product, large lumbering and hardly used because it doesn't go anywhere useful.
During my phd I created a dynamically resizing matrix like structure for representing gene networks of arbitrary size.
Oddly enough I did this but for sequences and I used an Oracle database to do it. We couldn't get the PHDs to agree what a "gene" was so we made the software so they could each pull out the sequence that they determined was a "gene".
Popular Science manages to be popular by not being much science. You don't give preteens non-fiction books unless they have lots of pictures and are written by Asimov. Who did a wonderful job of making some of his science books fun.
My Teen (preteen then) got hooked on the S. M. Sterling series when I left a book lying around.
Don't worry about 'Teen level' books. Good writing will hook anyone. If they have to stretch their minds, so much the better. You wind up with smarter kids.
Happy Dad.
Understanding level is not always the criteria to use but appropriateness. There are some pretty racy Science Fiction novels out there and I know I didn't let my pre-teen read some of Anne Rice's. Granted that's Horror but it's in the neighborhood.
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I think what every one has missed is that even if Media Sentry is authorized to have a copy the person delivering it IE the distributor (in this case the defendant) is still not authorized to provide that copy. So even though Media Sentry are authorized to receive it, you are still in the wrong to provide it for them to download and by downloading it they prove you are illegally distributing their files. I am not a lawyer but this seems obvious to me so it must be to the legal people.
The Eula that you agree to when you begin to use Visual Studio forbids you from developing a word processor that could compete with any Office product. There are clauses in there to force you to take any prodcut off the market that MS doesn't like. You pay between $400 and $10,000 for the development system and it is still restricted. Granted there are sort of free alternatives but not for WinMobile development at least I haven't seen one yet.
I say we use 4 of these devices and if three of the four agree we go for it and ignore the Minority Report!
I'm still not putting it back on my resume. Not no how, not no way.
Having learned most of my programming languages before there was an internet I'm not sure of any web available references. I use books.
Quaint and old fashioned I know but what the heck. Oh and when I don't use books I use Google. Saves having to remember where I put those pesky links to all those programming language web sites.
What I always wondered was WHY when I merely move a device from one USB port to another I have to re-install the drivers. This is a nasty bit of work for me 'cause when I'm moving my scanner to my PC from my mac I don't always remember what port it was in. And windows can't seem to find all the parts of the already installed and previously working drivers and I never remember where I put the latest version of the driver I had to install last time this happened.
And sometimes a device will stop working on one port but when I move it to another it works again after I figure out where the driver parts are.
None of this happens on my macbook so is it Windows only that does this? Come to think of it this never happened under OS 9 either. And it certainly doesn't happen under linux (I use ubuntu and debian).
Clearly you have no understanding idealism.
And, precisely because there is no competition and it is difficult to impossible for new players to enter the market, you no longer have much incentive to innovate or keep your prices low. Consumers suffer accordingly.
Define suffer, what gives you and any consumer the right to relief from suffering? Besides, market saturation and several other factors will self limit the prices, and like Coke a Pepsi will come along and steal a bit of your market. Economics is a rather complex subject and this over simplification of "They own it so they are Evil" crap is annoying.
I'm sorry I forgot to set the SARCASM bit on that reply, I was actually saying exactly the opposite to what you just pointed out. "It doesn't work for me so it must not work for anybody" is just as lame.
Thank you for playing, Captain Obvious to the rescue!
I was also going to give you a lame reply to this about your lack of imagination in the places you might want to put images, but you pretty much covered all the bases there too. Good job!
Actually you are quite wrong and simply don't understand econimics 101. Competition does not exist to "ensure" (I'm almost certain that's the wrong word) the consumer anything. It exists and that is the capitalist economic system. The law of supply and demand insures that competition will occur when there is more than one point of supply. But if you have the only supply (Like you invented it and you keep how you make it secret) then there is naturally no competition as long as the situation remains the same.
You can't have the competition and complain when someone wins.
Having cake and eating it too is a no no.
The law of supply and demand require that you make it harder for your rivals to get market share. It is when you use illegal means to obtain that market share that a problem exists. Believe me signing exclusive contracts with suppliers is not illegal. If you simply out compete your rivals then where's your complaint? When you have the best/only supply and demand is great you have the perfect combination. I see no problem with that. Why must there be barriers to competition?
I assume that your sig is rhetorical? You could ask the Shakers.
From the discussion I'm reading (not here exclusively either) it would appear that everybody thinks that any one having a superior position in the market is evil. Sorry but by that definition I want the most evil company on the planet. Cornering the market on a commodity is the time honored method of gaining ground on the competition. After all a competition has both winners and losers. It would appear you all don't want a competition you want a communism where everybody shares the market equally with no one having any advantage. Sorry folks that's not how it works. Get over it folks we live in a capitalist economy there will be losers and there will be winners, quit whining. Look up the definition of Competition.
I'm confused, Microsoft claims great sales of Vista. which is it? We have a bus service where I live that's has a big Vista on the side of the bus, kind of reminds me of the Microsoft product, large lumbering and hardly used because it doesn't go anywhere useful.
I was going to make a lame sort of funny reference to your lack of imagination, but I'm all out of ideas.
I have this bridge that I want to unload er I mean sell.
Not evil, just deluded!
Just perfect, first Jerry makes a "Show about nothing" now he makes commercials about nothing. Couldn't have been better!
That's Sontarans you twit.
I installed it and it works fine. Don't know what all the fluster is about.
Not only is this not true, your grammar sucks!
During my phd I created a dynamically resizing matrix like structure for representing gene networks of arbitrary size.
Oddly enough I did this but for sequences and I used an Oracle database to do it. We couldn't get the PHDs to agree what a "gene" was so we made the software so they could each pull out the sequence that they determined was a "gene".
The Dune books are far too adult for pre-teens.
Give Frank Herbert a pass. Go for the Heinlein and Poul Anderson.
Popular Science manages to be popular by not being much science. You don't give preteens non-fiction books unless they have lots of pictures and are written by Asimov. Who did a wonderful job of making some of his science books fun.
My Teen (preteen then) got hooked on the S. M. Sterling series when I left a book lying around.
Don't worry about 'Teen level' books. Good writing will hook anyone. If they have to stretch their minds, so much the better. You wind up with smarter kids.
Happy Dad.
Understanding level is not always the criteria to use but appropriateness. There are some pretty racy Science Fiction novels out there and I know I didn't let my pre-teen read some of Anne Rice's. Granted that's Horror but it's in the neighborhood.
I recommend going to www.lasfsinc.info and find their Recommended Reading list for children and young adults. They also have an adult reading list.
http://www.lasfsinc.info///index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=181
The Los Angeles Science Fantasy society is the oldest continuous meeting science fiction literary society in America. Nice bunch of people too.