The summary is a bit misleading- the 3C group charges $20 per DVD player, not 50% of the cost. Although $20 may end up being 50% of the cost of a DVD player, a $100 DVD player still only has to pay $20. Their argument of "but everyone else does it this way" sounds like whining that they can't make $5 DVD players.
Maybe part of the reason the 3C is charging a flat fee is to prevent Chinese companies from severely undercutting their own offerings. They do have the patents on some DVD stuff, and I'm sure it's more than just worthless software patents. When you get a patent, part of the rights that you get is to prevent other people form using them, or making them pay a price of your choosing to use it.
Cable internet basically works over cable TV channels that are designated for it. When they increase the limits, they open up more channels as well as changing the cap that the modem is set to. They could give you much faster speeds if they wanted to, but they don't.
Linux has had RPM's for ages. They don't always work perfectly, but neither do EXE's. And there are graphical interfaces to most common package managers; Debian has Synaptic that works with apt-get and dpkg quite nicely.
IBM may have dubious patents, but they don't use them. I haven't seen them sue gcc (or any other complier) becuase it could point out unreachable breakpoints, violating their patenet. Amazon has threatened to sue people for One-Click shopping. Just becuase IBM has it, doesn't mean they're going to defend it. Some patents are obvious worthwhile and they will defend, but others they will just let slide.
Not that it's bad to bring broadband to poor areas, but I don't think it will do much good. These areas already have school. They may not be great schools, but if you're not taking advantage of them, that's your fault. The link exists between broadband and education/income, but education causes income which causes broadband, not the other way around. Correlation never implies causation.
Even if you're not under oath, it is illegal to lie to law enforcement officers. Your first amendment rights protect your political speech and a few other things. They do not give you liberty to say whatever you want, whenever you want.
Well, if their server is in their tropical environment, we could help save them some heating costs by burning the server to a crisp. The first useful slashdotting!
ASP.Net was not the first time you could use modular programming in web pages. You can do it in perl, you can do it in PHP, and you can do it in Java. If you had significant amounts of copy-and-paste code in every page, you probably had web designers instead of programmers write your website. ASP.Net was not a revolution.
Of course they do! Who would want to run an operating system that you can't run WeatherBug, Gator, Kazaa, and all those other great free programs on! And other operating systems are just plain boring. What's there to do if you don't have viruses and worms up the wazoo to keep you on your toes?
The firewall should be blocking remote computer from accessing open ports, not localhost from accessing its own ports. When your firewall just blocks all packets instead of using a common-sense rule (allowing all packets from localhost), it causes problems that it shouldn't.
That's what I initally thought, but the article talks about a different kind of RSA "key". The article is about the hardware things that show a number that changes every 15sec or so, and you need that number to log in. The summary title is misleading (suprise suprise)
Simply don't care that the US pisses people off. This seems to be the prefered method. Understanding is deprecated.
Why should we, the US, be forced put other nation's interests above our own? We may be the dominant nation, but that doesn't mean we have to cave in and support every other nation in their bid to do whatever they want. As far as blocking the Galileo system, why should we let our enemies have an advantage? It's war; it's not fair. It's not like we're blocking it for the world, but as said before, there are some targets that we'd rather not have attacked, and this system would make low-cost, very high-precision guidance systems available. Why should we have to risk it?
XBOX License? There was such a thing? You bought a piece of hardware, you own it. You can do with it what you'd like as long as you don't violate any other laws. I haven't bought an XBOX, but what license do you accept when you buy the box? They can print whatever they want on the box, but it is constrained by various retail business laws that may make some (most? all)? of it meaningless. So you haven't accepted any license when you bought it, so what can they control about how you use it?
They can sell the toy, but they're not forcing you to buy it. Don't want your kid to have the CSI toys? DON'T BUY IT! If you don't buy it, it won't be under your tree for Christmas!
There is no such thing as "No Point of View." Everyone has a point of view, and it will show in their writings. Based on the typical person who would write in this, I'd expect it to quickkly form leftist leanings.
As for your moanings about Fox News, NBC, CBS, and ABC all lean left, to different degrees. Fox News leans right, so if you moan about Fox, you need to complain about the other news channels as well.
But then the parents could be liable, becuase they would be infringing on the patent as well. So, you'd have parents trying to teach their children how to read having to pay royalties to Microsoft.
Come to think about it, maybe Microsoft will start using their patented approach for their software managers. "When you make software like this, it sucks! Why don't you try it this way?"
I was shocked to see "public school science teacher" on their list. They used a poor example, and yes, that would be a bad job. But there are many good science teachers, and most schools are better than the one they picked out. The article also implies that public-school science teachers are all poor teachers, which is not true. I was shocked to see that (I'm a high school student), and I'm sure many other slashdotters are too.
It'd be nice if you could use WinXP without administrator privledges. But there are many programs that simply don't run without Administrator privledges (MusicMatch comes to mind). If people could run without administrator privledges, they might, but if it's a lot of trouble, they won't. Unix users don't run as root if a program doesn't need root privledges, it will run as a non-root user, unlike most XP programs. I know it isn't completely Microsoft's fault, but they need to work with software companies to fix the problem.
The problem is that there is no "best" linux distribution. Everyone has a different definition of "best", so how can one be best for everyone? The article praises SimpleMEIPS. Except for the installation, the features he mentions are all available in a stock Debian install (he simple apt-get's the programs).
In my opinion, the article has a very "look ma, see what I can do" approach. He praises many open-source applications, but they are available the same way in any distro, and manages to knock all other distros in the process. Maybe for a newbie, SimpleMEIPS is a good distro, but it certaintly isn't the "best desktop distribution".
There have been several treaties about Antarctica, and that's basically what they say. You can't make claims to Antarctica. That's why the US doesn't make claims, and also why they don't recognize claims of other nations.
n/0 is not infinity, it is undefined. In math, you cannot divide by zero. You can take limits as the denominator approaches zero, but that is a completely different story. The limit of a function as it approaches a number is irrelivant of the value of the function at that number.
Making films and writing books are two different things. Like it or not, a movie has to keep an audience more or less paying attention. It's interesting to watch the movies with the director's and screenwriter's commentaries. They explain many of the changes they made and why they made them. You can't just take a book and translate the text straight into screenplay. It doesn't work.
are unable to determine the parties or reasons for the legal action
We don't know the legal reasons behind it. But I'm sure that the people who run Indymedia do know the reasons behind the seizure. The judge may have decided that a gag order was necessary in this case, and there are plenty of legimitate reasons for a gag order. Just because we don't know, doesn't mean they don't know.
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The summary is a bit misleading- the 3C group charges $20 per DVD player, not 50% of the cost. Although $20 may end up being 50% of the cost of a DVD player, a $100 DVD player still only has to pay $20. Their argument of "but everyone else does it this way" sounds like whining that they can't make $5 DVD players.
Maybe part of the reason the 3C is charging a flat fee is to prevent Chinese companies from severely undercutting their own offerings. They do have the patents on some DVD stuff, and I'm sure it's more than just worthless software patents. When you get a patent, part of the rights that you get is to prevent other people form using them, or making them pay a price of your choosing to use it.
Cable internet basically works over cable TV channels that are designated for it. When they increase the limits, they open up more channels as well as changing the cap that the modem is set to. They could give you much faster speeds if they wanted to, but they don't.
Linux has had RPM's for ages. They don't always work perfectly, but neither do EXE's. And there are graphical interfaces to most common package managers; Debian has Synaptic that works with apt-get and dpkg quite nicely.
IBM may have dubious patents, but they don't use them. I haven't seen them sue gcc (or any other complier) becuase it could point out unreachable breakpoints, violating their patenet. Amazon has threatened to sue people for One-Click shopping. Just becuase IBM has it, doesn't mean they're going to defend it. Some patents are obvious worthwhile and they will defend, but others they will just let slide.
Not that it's bad to bring broadband to poor areas, but I don't think it will do much good. These areas already have school. They may not be great schools, but if you're not taking advantage of them, that's your fault. The link exists between broadband and education/income, but education causes income which causes broadband, not the other way around. Correlation never implies causation.
Even if you're not under oath, it is illegal to lie to law enforcement officers. Your first amendment rights protect your political speech and a few other things. They do not give you liberty to say whatever you want, whenever you want.
Well, if their server is in their tropical environment, we could help save them some heating costs by burning the server to a crisp. The first useful slashdotting!
ASP.Net was not the first time you could use modular programming in web pages. You can do it in perl, you can do it in PHP, and you can do it in Java. If you had significant amounts of copy-and-paste code in every page, you probably had web designers instead of programmers write your website. ASP.Net was not a revolution.
but do they provide more value to the customer
Of course they do! Who would want to run an operating system that you can't run WeatherBug, Gator, Kazaa, and all those other great free programs on! And other operating systems are just plain boring. What's there to do if you don't have viruses and worms up the wazoo to keep you on your toes?
The firewall should be blocking remote computer from accessing open ports, not localhost from accessing its own ports. When your firewall just blocks all packets instead of using a common-sense rule (allowing all packets from localhost), it causes problems that it shouldn't.
That's what I initally thought, but the article talks about a different kind of RSA "key". The article is about the hardware things that show a number that changes every 15sec or so, and you need that number to log in. The summary title is misleading (suprise suprise)
I wanna see how fast he can hit the big "0" and "1" buttons to send the data. That's manual server, the old-fashioned way.
My luggage combination is 1,2,3,4
Hey, that's my combination too!
Simply don't care that the US pisses people off. This seems to be the prefered method. Understanding is deprecated.
Why should we, the US, be forced put other nation's interests above our own? We may be the dominant nation, but that doesn't mean we have to cave in and support every other nation in their bid to do whatever they want. As far as blocking the Galileo system, why should we let our enemies have an advantage? It's war; it's not fair. It's not like we're blocking it for the world, but as said before, there are some targets that we'd rather not have attacked, and this system would make low-cost, very high-precision guidance systems available. Why should we have to risk it?
XBOX License? There was such a thing? You bought a piece of hardware, you own it. You can do with it what you'd like as long as you don't violate any other laws. I haven't bought an XBOX, but what license do you accept when you buy the box? They can print whatever they want on the box, but it is constrained by various retail business laws that may make some (most? all)? of it meaningless. So you haven't accepted any license when you bought it, so what can they control about how you use it?
They can sell the toy, but they're not forcing you to buy it. Don't want your kid to have the CSI toys? DON'T BUY IT! If you don't buy it, it won't be under your tree for Christmas!
There is no such thing as "No Point of View." Everyone has a point of view, and it will show in their writings. Based on the typical person who would write in this, I'd expect it to quickkly form leftist leanings.
As for your moanings about Fox News, NBC, CBS, and ABC all lean left, to different degrees. Fox News leans right, so if you moan about Fox, you need to complain about the other news channels as well.
But then the parents could be liable, becuase they would be infringing on the patent as well. So, you'd have parents trying to teach their children how to read having to pay royalties to Microsoft.
Come to think about it, maybe Microsoft will start using their patented approach for their software managers. "When you make software like this, it sucks! Why don't you try it this way?"
I was shocked to see "public school science teacher" on their list. They used a poor example, and yes, that would be a bad job. But there are many good science teachers, and most schools are better than the one they picked out. The article also implies that public-school science teachers are all poor teachers, which is not true. I was shocked to see that (I'm a high school student), and I'm sure many other slashdotters are too.
It'd be nice if you could use WinXP without administrator privledges. But there are many programs that simply don't run without Administrator privledges (MusicMatch comes to mind). If people could run without administrator privledges, they might, but if it's a lot of trouble, they won't. Unix users don't run as root if a program doesn't need root privledges, it will run as a non-root user, unlike most XP programs. I know it isn't completely Microsoft's fault, but they need to work with software companies to fix the problem.
The problem is that there is no "best" linux distribution. Everyone has a different definition of "best", so how can one be best for everyone? The article praises SimpleMEIPS. Except for the installation, the features he mentions are all available in a stock Debian install (he simple apt-get's the programs).
In my opinion, the article has a very "look ma, see what I can do" approach. He praises many open-source applications, but they are available the same way in any distro, and manages to knock all other distros in the process. Maybe for a newbie, SimpleMEIPS is a good distro, but it certaintly isn't the "best desktop distribution".
There have been several treaties about Antarctica, and that's basically what they say. You can't make claims to Antarctica. That's why the US doesn't make claims, and also why they don't recognize claims of other nations.
n/0 is not infinity, it is undefined. In math, you cannot divide by zero. You can take limits as the denominator approaches zero, but that is a completely different story. The limit of a function as it approaches a number is irrelivant of the value of the function at that number.
Making films and writing books are two different things. Like it or not, a movie has to keep an audience more or less paying attention. It's interesting to watch the movies with the director's and screenwriter's commentaries. They explain many of the changes they made and why they made them. You can't just take a book and translate the text straight into screenplay. It doesn't work.
are unable to determine the parties or reasons for the legal action
We don't know the legal reasons behind it. But I'm sure that the people who run Indymedia do know the reasons behind the seizure. The judge may have decided that a gag order was necessary in this case, and there are plenty of legimitate reasons for a gag order. Just because we don't know, doesn't mean they don't know.