Whatever else people will say about this guy, he did not get what he deserved. Everything after and including his arrest was fair and deserved, but the five weeks of being held as a material witness were complete bullshit. The officials abused the statute to hold him indefinitely and complete their case research. If it hadn't received the media attention it did, they probably would have held him longer before finally arresting him.
What if you find yourself out of a job and unable to find another because your employer sees that you carry a gene for heart disease and doesn't want to pay for your inflated health insurance premiums? What then?
You're right, of course. But I was responding only to your response to Reed Morgan's statement:
Your JOB as a US citizen is to select a representative who will adequately represent your views. It is essential that you not turn off from politics.
I described how to to minimally fulfill one's civic responsiblity. In the end, he's right: it is your job to exercise your right to vote and select a representative.
Actually, you just supported the argument for more people to do this. The case you paraphrased from Fight Club, incidentally, was itself taken from Ford in real life. Yeah, scary.
Back to the point, consider the equation the expected number of complaints, A, multiplied by the average cost of each complaint, B. A * B = X. If X is greater than the computer manufacturer's (not Microsoft's) profit from force bundling Windows, then it's in the computer manufacturer's best interests to stop the practice. Currently A is near zero. But since B is probably high (in administrative and legal costs), any increase in A exerts B times the pressure on the computer manufacturer to stop force bundling Windows.
Of course, the above equation applies assuming a constant OEM price of Windows, which depends on the terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement and how closely Microsoft adheres to them.
I say targeted because we have not yet selected a licensing model and placed the code in the public domain (we are working on some specific functional targets).
Repeat after me: placing IP into the public domain precludes any sort of licensing agreement.
Public domain means you have no claim of ownership.
Just a friendly note, the instrument second from the left is a violin, not a cello. You can tell by its chin rest (the round black thing on its lower left), which a cello doesn't need since it's played between the legs. Violas (the bastard step-cousins of violins) have chin rests as well, but have fatter bodies than violins.
You're technically correct, but last I heard here, the FCC seriously restricted its requirements for at-cost line-sharing for data.
What this means is that line owners don't have to lease use of their lines at cost unless the other company also provides voice services, so DSL-only outfits can be charged the proverbial "whatever the market will bear." Although this regulation may have little effect on existing DSL companies (and there's no guarantee of even that), it will negatively affect future competition.
Differences in population is probably a big factor, but I bet the dominant one is the US's government-granted monopolies on both telecommunication and coaxial cable infrastructures.
You're partly right. Various forms of poker have varying degrees of people reading. No-limit Texas hold 'em is almost entirely a people game, but limit Omaha hold 'em (for example) can be played very profitably playing primarily your cards. In general, pot- and no-limit games are predominantly people games, but in limit games you can get away with less finesse and more strict math. It's much less important to read your opponent correctly when you have to call, say, 10% of the pot to see his cards than when you have to call 2000% (or more!) of the pot.
Oh wow, you mean that the most recent Release Candidate was actually the released version? That's pretty amazing, since developers usually add in a ton of new, untested code to the final RC they consider release-worthy.
I mean come on, what did you think Release Candidate meant?
You make a fair comment, but this is Mozilla's new stable build, and the last one distributed as a monolithic application bundle. The stories about the RC's were mostly free advertising for last-minute stress testers, because this stable build has to last until they completely separate the innards into separate applications.
That's not all.. On the Fast User Switching page, their final point is this:
Because we can
Mac OS X animates transitions from one user to another. The current desktop becomes a texture placed on a 3D cube that rotates out of view while the incoming account desktop rotates into view on another side of the cube.
I'm glad they decided to flaunt the Quartz engine this way. And they're really doing it just because it's cool.
What are you implying, that he'll die before he's eligible to collect? Every citizen of the United States of America -- and I assume he is one -- receives Social Security.
The Apple vs. Microsoft case is actually poor evidence in this situation. The legal question in that case was not whether a "look and feel" could be protected as intellectual property; that was actually assumed to be true. The question instead was whether Microsoft's license of Apple's "look and feel" for Windows 1.0 carried over into Windows 2.0. Apple contended that Windows 2.0 was such a different beast from Windows 1.0 that the original license didn't apply. Microsoft claimed that since 2.0 shared the same name as 1.0, it was clearly just a continuation of Windows. Unfortunately for Apple, the original licensing agreement for Windows 1.0 was extremely liberal, and Microsoft prevailed.
A better precedent for your argument is the canonical Lotus vs. Borland case, in which case it was ruled that a menu system was not artistic expression protected by copyright. Note that the first trial judge ruled against Borland, saying words like "Cut" and "Paste" could be changed to, e.g., "Snip" and "Dupe." Had his ruling stood, we'd have had to learn a new menu system for every software company, raising the barrier of entry for new software companies who would have had to invent new words and keyboard shortcuts for "File/Open" = Ctrl-O, and innovation would be even more stifled than it already is. Can you imagine shopping for cars if each company had a different mapping for left pedal = break, right pedal = gas?
Let's say that I post a "Company X sucks" rant on my web site... Company X sends a response, that according to this law would be required to be posted on my site. Company X's response is in the form of an extremely large file. Company X then has an employee post an anonymous article to Slashdot ( First use of annoying new low in EU! Take a look _here_[annoyingly large file, hosted on my server]). My hosting company kindly then sends me a bill for the bandwidth useage, and I quietly go bankrupt...
Or let's say that you kindly RTFA and, in particular, this part: "It may be considered sufficient to publish (the reply) or make available a link to it" (emphasis mine).
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I agree. I was going to pick up the 10.2 edition of Mac OS X: the Missing Manual in May after reading some glowing reviews, but I didn't because I intend to [purchase|get for free] Panther when it's released. Granted the book most certainly won't be irrelevant to 10.3, but it will be outdated and replaced shortly after with the 10.3 edition of Mac OS: the Missing Manual. Probably shortly before 10.4 is set to release.
Granted it was probably mostly marketing bluster, but Steve Jobs did claim that Apple is encoding the original master recordings when they're available.
Imagine the fallout if people found out Apple was using, say, IIS on 2000 Server. It would make the sales pitch for their server solutions a little tougher.
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What if you care only about integer operations?
Whatever else people will say about this guy, he did not get what he deserved. Everything after and including his arrest was fair and deserved, but the five weeks of being held as a material witness were complete bullshit. The officials abused the statute to hold him indefinitely and complete their case research. If it hadn't received the media attention it did, they probably would have held him longer before finally arresting him.
What if you find yourself out of a job and unable to find another because your employer sees that you carry a gene for heart disease and doesn't want to pay for your inflated health insurance premiums? What then?
I described how to to minimally fulfill one's civic responsiblity. In the end, he's right: it is your job to exercise your right to vote and select a representative.
You then can return to your business and ignore politics for the next four years, since a voter can exercise no power between elections anyway.
or the HIV virus if you want to be exact
Actually, to be really exact, it's just HIV. The 'V' is for virus.
I bet you enter your PIN number at ATM machines, too.
Actually, you just supported the argument for more people to do this. The case you paraphrased from Fight Club, incidentally, was itself taken from Ford in real life. Yeah, scary.
Back to the point, consider the equation the expected number of complaints, A, multiplied by the average cost of each complaint, B. A * B = X. If X is greater than the computer manufacturer's (not Microsoft's) profit from force bundling Windows, then it's in the computer manufacturer's best interests to stop the practice. Currently A is near zero. But since B is probably high (in administrative and legal costs), any increase in A exerts B times the pressure on the computer manufacturer to stop force bundling Windows.
Of course, the above equation applies assuming a constant OEM price of Windows, which depends on the terms of Microsoft's antitrust settlement and how closely Microsoft adheres to them.
Right, because that's worked so well with the metric system.
Repeat after me: placing IP into the public domain precludes any sort of licensing agreement.
Public domain means you have no claim of ownership.
Buy a +/-R[W] and you're good to go.
Just a friendly note, the instrument second from the left is a violin, not a cello. You can tell by its chin rest (the round black thing on its lower left), which a cello doesn't need since it's played between the legs. Violas (the bastard step-cousins of violins) have chin rests as well, but have fatter bodies than violins.
What this means is that line owners don't have to lease use of their lines at cost unless the other company also provides voice services, so DSL-only outfits can be charged the proverbial "whatever the market will bear." Although this regulation may have little effect on existing DSL companies (and there's no guarantee of even that), it will negatively affect future competition.
Differences in population is probably a big factor, but I bet the dominant one is the US's government-granted monopolies on both telecommunication and coaxial cable infrastructures.
You're partly right. Various forms of poker have varying degrees of people reading. No-limit Texas hold 'em is almost entirely a people game, but limit Omaha hold 'em (for example) can be played very profitably playing primarily your cards. In general, pot- and no-limit games are predominantly people games, but in limit games you can get away with less finesse and more strict math. It's much less important to read your opponent correctly when you have to call, say, 10% of the pot to see his cards than when you have to call 2000% (or more!) of the pot.
I mean come on, what did you think Release Candidate meant?
You make a fair comment, but this is Mozilla's new stable build, and the last one distributed as a monolithic application bundle. The stories about the RC's were mostly free advertising for last-minute stress testers, because this stable build has to last until they completely separate the innards into separate applications.
I'm glad they decided to flaunt the Quartz engine this way. And they're really doing it just because it's cool.
What are you implying, that he'll die before he's eligible to collect? Every citizen of the United States of America -- and I assume he is one -- receives Social Security.
A better precedent for your argument is the canonical Lotus vs. Borland case, in which case it was ruled that a menu system was not artistic expression protected by copyright. Note that the first trial judge ruled against Borland, saying words like "Cut" and "Paste" could be changed to, e.g., "Snip" and "Dupe." Had his ruling stood, we'd have had to learn a new menu system for every software company, raising the barrier of entry for new software companies who would have had to invent new words and keyboard shortcuts for "File/Open" = Ctrl-O, and innovation would be even more stifled than it already is. Can you imagine shopping for cars if each company had a different mapping for left pedal = break, right pedal = gas?
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Or let's say that you kindly RTFA and, in particular, this part: "It may be considered sufficient to publish (the reply) or make available a link to it" (emphasis mine).
Oh hell, maybe I should just get the book now.
Granted it was probably mostly marketing bluster, but Steve Jobs did claim that Apple is encoding the original master recordings when they're available.
Imagine the fallout if people found out Apple was using, say, IIS on 2000 Server. It would make the sales pitch for their server solutions a little tougher.
Mac OS X is absolutely not a "well-camoflaged" Linux distribution. Mac OS X is Unix. It's essentially FreeBSD with a Mach microkernel.
But yes, being Unix, Mac OS X does use CUPS.