Because boarder searches include some probable cause built in. But a border search is supposed to be specific to the differences of international laws. If you're coming from a day trip in Canada it's not appropriate to look for stolen iPods from the USA... but this is what they're doing with laptops. The point is that to secure the boarder of the country items must be searched, but it must be reasonable. You are not IN the USA yet. But there needs to be limits, if customs can't find a good reason to tell a judge they need a laptop or electronic device after 24 hours they should be required to send you on your way. Similar rules apply to "real" property, along with the need to free up space for travelers, that's why they can't pile up cars or boats, etc. even though they try. It's just that "on the internet" thing being used to get around another rule everybody would normally follow. The current practice was learned in the drug war to use flimsy "seizure" rules to put items into a place where they weren't "criminal" evidence but couldn't be released because they "might be" evidence or "poisoned fruit"...until the room was cleared out at auction for police profit. The same game is going on here.
actually, AMD is slow but in a stable position. With the market down is a great time to do this.. they are taking the hit in the stocks anyway, when the rest of the market comes around, the bleeding will hopefully be over and they'll be green again.
right up until TSMC screwed up a really big order.. they're pretty much the only game in town for Nvidia and Nvidia got burned bad. AMD has considerably better fab, but is also a competitor so Nvidia wouldn't even ask to use them.
On the flip side the foundry is considerably more advanced than AMD is using right now. AMD has not been selling enough chips to fill up their fab. By freeing the fab, it will allow other companies, particularly after the Nvidia chip fiasco, to manufacturer without fear AMD might poach their chip designs. I think that's the motivation. In order to meet Intel and IBM on the fab front, they have to invest in billion dollar factories.
exactly, where's all the free market, no subsidy people now? Corn was priced so low only mega farms could break even. Everybody said subsizing corn prices was wrong.. now the market price is up! Farmers won't need that anymore.. yea capitalism!
Oh, wait, that means it costs more.. bad capitalism?
Apple also has patents on their side. Many of the features ATT has are actually Apple server products, other companies aren't authorized to use those features.
I think iPhone is just fine and the wrong target.. the real target should be all the other horribly disabled phones being sold for full price and crippled not to work with other carriers.
Apple was MOST straightforward about the process from Day One. Prior to this they had sold ZERO cell phones. They chose one company that would give them the IP protection they needed and their customers "Apple's version" of good service. It's not Apple's fault the rest of the market is so awful. AT&T sells lots of other phones, it's only this one Apple phone that is exclusive.
typically the courts are very friendly to "community" efforts, things that are organized but not "monetary". If the trial court decision was a bad as you say, it was set up to be overturned, simply to make a precedent and take the argument off the table for good.
$1 also puts a typical 12 track CD at about the same price as one at Walmart or Target. Except the labels get 70% and don't have to actually make, inventory, and ship CDs, people can buy them exactly when they want them... lables just sit back and cash the checks and bellyache Apple doesn't pay them more.
this has nothing to do with DRM, sorry wrong argument today. Apple actually sends the music non-DRM'd to iTunes and iTunes puts your payment info and applies the DRM. That has nothing to do with this though.
This has to do with Apple getting stuck with extra fees because the Labels don't properly pay performer/writer/musicians. This mandatory royalty is only for "electronic" means... for things like streaming audio. It's not supposed to be for "stores" like Apple's. That's why Apple pays CD track prices to Labels.. this should come from the label's cut, just like it would on a CD. It's all about double-dipping because it's "Step 2. on the internet".
my kids have both and like to play GBA games on the Advance SP more than on the DS... which also covers games way back to game boy color. SP is still a big seller (more were sold than Xbox 360s last year!), and at only $60 there's no reason to duplicate functionality in a new DSi. The Lite could only play GBA games anyway so hard-core poke-crowd still need the SP..which is a frick'n tank!
quite the contrary, are the streets less "free" because we have some places that are stores, some are houses, Some are bars, some are parks, etc. As long as in the public street you obey the least common decency nobody bothers you from place to place and you move more or less freely. The Internet is like the highway system. Once you are on it, you can go where ever you want.
Network speeds are akin to automobiles.. you have to meet a minimum auto requirement to travel on highways... you need different requirements to haul 50 tons of steel or drive really fast. Different tasks cost more, just like carrying greater internet traffic costs more. IP and DNS are akin to property addresses. Other than identifying a particular "neighborhood" you might belong in they don't restrict what you can do with the internet.
First, Ellison doesn't like the Cloud because Amazon, Google, etc. buy off 10 of his best engineers and charge for services making expensive Oracle servers unnecessarily.. kind of like when Oracle forked Red Hat server that was their primary install base. Goes around doesn't it.
Look at the current industry. Microsoft is dominating with Xbox live, Apple with iTunes, Google with their search engine and service, Amazon with their book store and storage technology, Yahoo with web services... this is also the heart of Net Neutrality because telcos have cut off small users and now want rent from the big guys.
That said both Richard Stallman and Laurarance Lessing and Tim Berners-Lee all have a similar vibe going. We have Open Web Standards, Free Software and some Free Culture but connecting it is not free. Somebody else is collecting all the keys. The key feature of the Internet was that it was a network of PEERS.
The very first stratification was in the dial-up days when all of us users could only "read" the pages, not host our content. Only big players can play, little people have to rent from hosting companies. The telcos never let go of that, so for most businesses it's very expensive to get pipe capable of hosting to your business.
The second stratification was the creation of database driven web apps. Again, HTML directories were woefully behind, so programmers wrote programs to store and retrieve the data more easily. Now most data is tied up in databases... Wikipedia is awesome but you can't touch the actual database. You can't directly "tear off" a page as a document. The keeper of the database is the keeper of the knowledge. Some nice people share with APIs but that's only because they're nice, they don't have to make the data free.
Thirdly, the people like Amazon and Google are tying up not just their data but everybody's data. They mine all of it for advertising, they control all of your access. If you leave they still keep your stuff. If they lock you out you might not have it. Consider that the forefront of IP infringement cases are over what YOU can host on external sources, so the tools to create are more and more limited... the tools to host without being "signed" to the publishers are waning.
What would a web look like if we could all host? If when we connected to each other's websites we actually connected to each other. How would we create something like Google but not owned by anybody? How do we really have self publishing that rates good in searching. What does a search tool look like that connects documents, not databases?
"There is no cryptographic solution to the problem in which the attacker and intended recipient are the same person" When will they learn?
Um.. that's the entire point of Microsoft Vista! Xbox 360 works flawlessly... of course the owner of the machine is a "user" not an "owner" and the machine is not programmable. If you want real security you treat the end user as hostile.
not a joke at all. Rockefeller made his Billion dollars doing exactly what Microsoft does by buying one gas station and using profits from others to sell gas at far below market cost until the other stations sold or failed. Microsoft's tactics of bundling software are harder to prove as "below cost" so they get away with it. The Standard Oil break up was several times larger (in real economic units) than Microsoft at it's peak.
But if they don't pay, you can't sue them. Those little words "at will" mean that you automatically agree to whatever they do by staying employed. The first time they write a short paycheck, and you don't quit, you agreed... and you can't sue. What fun.
you have a point, only individuals can file most IP. Perhaps when companies fold that should go back to the creators to be used again, after all the original company is no longer doing it's duty to promote the material.
We have corporate "personhood" last I checked people can't own people, why can companies? Corporations need to be treated like foreign governments, or Native American tribes... that are part of the country but not with the best interest of the people in mind.
but the release for OSX is flat, Apple has Desktop, Server and Server Unlimited... everybody gets the very best version, no crippleware, and Apple gets extra coin from regular updates that feel really cool.
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Because boarder searches include some probable cause built in. But a border search is supposed to be specific to the differences of international laws. If you're coming from a day trip in Canada it's not appropriate to look for stolen iPods from the USA... but this is what they're doing with laptops. The point is that to secure the boarder of the country items must be searched, but it must be reasonable. You are not IN the USA yet. But there needs to be limits, if customs can't find a good reason to tell a judge they need a laptop or electronic device after 24 hours they should be required to send you on your way. Similar rules apply to "real" property, along with the need to free up space for travelers, that's why they can't pile up cars or boats, etc. even though they try. It's just that "on the internet" thing being used to get around another rule everybody would normally follow. The current practice was learned in the drug war to use flimsy "seizure" rules to put items into a place where they weren't "criminal" evidence but couldn't be released because they "might be" evidence or "poisoned fruit"...until the room was cleared out at auction for police profit. The same game is going on here.
actually, AMD is slow but in a stable position. With the market down is a great time to do this.. they are taking the hit in the stocks anyway, when the rest of the market comes around, the bleeding will hopefully be over and they'll be green again.
right up until TSMC screwed up a really big order.. they're pretty much the only game in town for Nvidia and Nvidia got burned bad. AMD has considerably better fab, but is also a competitor so Nvidia wouldn't even ask to use them.
what good is that? Only Intel, IBM and maybe TSMC could even build chips at that level.. AMD already has cross-licenses with Intel and IBM anyway.
On the flip side the foundry is considerably more advanced than AMD is using right now. AMD has not been selling enough chips to fill up their fab. By freeing the fab, it will allow other companies, particularly after the Nvidia chip fiasco, to manufacturer without fear AMD might poach their chip designs. I think that's the motivation. In order to meet Intel and IBM on the fab front, they have to invest in billion dollar factories.
wrong, they weren't sued, Mandrake bought the Brazilian distro Conectiva and sumunged the names Mandrake + Conetiva = Mandriva.
exactly, where's all the free market, no subsidy people now? Corn was priced so low only mega farms could break even. Everybody said subsizing corn prices was wrong.. now the market price is up! Farmers won't need that anymore.. yea capitalism!
Oh, wait, that means it costs more.. bad capitalism?
Apple also has patents on their side. Many of the features ATT has are actually Apple server products, other companies aren't authorized to use those features.
I think iPhone is just fine and the wrong target.. the real target should be all the other horribly disabled phones being sold for full price and crippled not to work with other carriers.
Apple was MOST straightforward about the process from Day One. Prior to this they had sold ZERO cell phones. They chose one company that would give them the IP protection they needed and their customers "Apple's version" of good service. It's not Apple's fault the rest of the market is so awful. AT&T sells lots of other phones, it's only this one Apple phone that is exclusive.
typically the courts are very friendly to "community" efforts, things that are organized but not "monetary". If the trial court decision was a bad as you say, it was set up to be overturned, simply to make a precedent and take the argument off the table for good.
$1 also puts a typical 12 track CD at about the same price as one at Walmart or Target. Except the labels get 70% and don't have to actually make, inventory, and ship CDs, people can buy them exactly when they want them... lables just sit back and cash the checks and bellyache Apple doesn't pay them more.
this has nothing to do with DRM, sorry wrong argument today. Apple actually sends the music non-DRM'd to iTunes and iTunes puts your payment info and applies the DRM. That has nothing to do with this though.
This has to do with Apple getting stuck with extra fees because the Labels don't properly pay performer/writer/musicians. This mandatory royalty is only for "electronic" means... for things like streaming audio. It's not supposed to be for "stores" like Apple's. That's why Apple pays CD track prices to Labels.. this should come from the label's cut, just like it would on a CD. It's all about double-dipping because it's "Step 2. on the internet".
my kids have both and like to play GBA games on the Advance SP more than on the DS... which also covers games way back to game boy color. SP is still a big seller (more were sold than Xbox 360s last year!), and at only $60 there's no reason to duplicate functionality in a new DSi. The Lite could only play GBA games anyway so hard-core poke-crowd still need the SP..which is a frick'n tank!
quite the contrary, are the streets less "free" because we have some places that are stores, some are houses, Some are bars, some are parks, etc. As long as in the public street you obey the least common decency nobody bothers you from place to place and you move more or less freely. The Internet is like the highway system. Once you are on it, you can go where ever you want.
Network speeds are akin to automobiles.. you have to meet a minimum auto requirement to travel on highways... you need different requirements to haul 50 tons of steel or drive really fast. Different tasks cost more, just like carrying greater internet traffic costs more. IP and DNS are akin to property addresses. Other than identifying a particular "neighborhood" you might belong in they don't restrict what you can do with the internet.
First, Ellison doesn't like the Cloud because Amazon, Google, etc. buy off 10 of his best engineers and charge for services making expensive Oracle servers unnecessarily.. kind of like when Oracle forked Red Hat server that was their primary install base. Goes around doesn't it.
Look at the current industry. Microsoft is dominating with Xbox live, Apple with iTunes, Google with their search engine and service, Amazon with their book store and storage technology, Yahoo with web services... this is also the heart of Net Neutrality because telcos have cut off small users and now want rent from the big guys.
That said both Richard Stallman and Laurarance Lessing and Tim Berners-Lee all have a similar vibe going. We have Open Web Standards, Free Software and some Free Culture but connecting it is not free. Somebody else is collecting all the keys. The key feature of the Internet was that it was a network of PEERS.
The very first stratification was in the dial-up days when all of us users could only "read" the pages, not host our content. Only big players can play, little people have to rent from hosting companies. The telcos never let go of that, so for most businesses it's very expensive to get pipe capable of hosting to your business.
The second stratification was the creation of database driven web apps. Again, HTML directories were woefully behind, so programmers wrote programs to store and retrieve the data more easily. Now most data is tied up in databases... Wikipedia is awesome but you can't touch the actual database. You can't directly "tear off" a page as a document. The keeper of the database is the keeper of the knowledge. Some nice people share with APIs but that's only because they're nice, they don't have to make the data free.
Thirdly, the people like Amazon and Google are tying up not just their data but everybody's data. They mine all of it for advertising, they control all of your access. If you leave they still keep your stuff. If they lock you out you might not have it. Consider that the forefront of IP infringement cases are over what YOU can host on external sources, so the tools to create are more and more limited... the tools to host without being "signed" to the publishers are waning.
What would a web look like if we could all host? If when we connected to each other's websites we actually connected to each other. How would we create something like Google but not owned by anybody? How do we really have self publishing that rates good in searching. What does a search tool look like that connects documents, not databases?
IOC is not like the RIAA, they are what ICANN wants to be!
"There is no cryptographic solution to the problem in which the attacker and intended recipient are the same person"
When will they learn?
Um.. that's the entire point of Microsoft Vista! Xbox 360 works flawlessly... of course the owner of the machine is a "user" not an "owner" and the machine is not programmable. If you want real security you treat the end user as hostile.
not a joke at all. Rockefeller made his Billion dollars doing exactly what Microsoft does by buying one gas station and using profits from others to sell gas at far below market cost until the other stations sold or failed. Microsoft's tactics of bundling software are harder to prove as "below cost" so they get away with it. The Standard Oil break up was several times larger (in real economic units) than Microsoft at it's peak.
But if they don't pay, you can't sue them. Those little words "at will" mean that you automatically agree to whatever they do by staying employed. The first time they write a short paycheck, and you don't quit, you agreed... and you can't sue. What fun.
is there really a difference in "corporate" condolences?
this is like the Steve Jobs oops that happened a few weeks ago.
the PowerPC chip is probably the most widely used.. from printers and military boards to computers to Xbox/PS3/Wii to IBM 32/64 way POWER servers.
Perhaps ARM and MIPS have more units though as huge amounts of embedded devices use them.
you have a point, only individuals can file most IP. Perhaps when companies fold that should go back to the creators to be used again, after all the original company is no longer doing it's duty to promote the material.
We have corporate "personhood" last I checked people can't own people, why can companies? Corporations need to be treated like foreign governments, or Native American tribes... that are part of the country but not with the best interest of the people in mind.
I think AMD should buy it... then they can get paid 20 Million a year by Intel!
Transmeta is not public I believe.. they could sell it on Ebay, but the PayPay fees would kill them.
but the release for OSX is flat, Apple has Desktop, Server and Server Unlimited... everybody gets the very best version, no crippleware, and Apple gets extra coin from regular updates that feel really cool.
Wait for a Connexeus .. from Ex Machina... it's way better... and open source!!