Since CmdrTahoe can not be bothered, I would like to use this chance to wish all slashdotter's a great Valentine's Day! Slack off work and go spend some quality time with your significant other or go ask someone out!!!
Otherwise it's stupid and discriminatory to fry a small potato, especially since any competitor can offer the same music catalog as iTunes (and if not, that's recording company's fault, not Apple's), while Windows competitors can not offer the same selection of apps as MS.
Care to provide reference to a law that creates such an obligation? I am pretty sure that they are only obligated to be honest with shareholders. Bill Gates could make some money for Microsoft by having sex with the highest bidder in a country where that's legal (say France). Yet nobody sued him for abstaining. Are you saying corporate executables are obligated to screw everyone else but are immune from getting screwed themselves?
Think of it this way. Would you consider it ok to decode/decrypt every feed coming down? There's lots of communication stuff up there, and lots of private data coming back down.
And whom did I force to send all those private radiowaves my way, in a format I can decode? Just because something is convenient for a particular person or company doesn't mean everyone else should be banned from using commonly available technology in their own private space.
I bet if every second of Michael's "work" hours were videotaped, he would too be caught playing games, making personal phone calls or staring at his scantly clad secretaty. We need new Republican scandals badly...
Surely Betty only has to pay what she thought was the cost of a new roof though? How is she supposed to know if she was never presented with and sign a contract?
Come on, muslims are not protesting that Mohammed has a bomb attached to his head. If they thought their prophet wouldn't approve of suicide bombers, they would protest rather than cheer after Sept 11. They are just not happy the cartoon showed Mohammed's face. Similarly, Bible Belt Christians would embrace your proposed cartoon. Their god destroyed a couple of cities for sexual deviations and apparently recently flooded New Orleans for practicing voodoo.
(Any) Religion: 1. Thou shall not kill 2. ??? 3. Death penalty, holy war, withholding genetic treatments and AIDS prevention knowledge
Well, I don't see anyone jailing the Danish cartoonists. Their leader affirmed the freedom of press while responding to his muslim counterparts. Bill Clinton and even Bush have a right to their own opinions as long as they don't force them on me. With a heavy heart I have to say so do the people of Iraq and China as long as they don't commit any violence outside their borders and allow free emigration. Otherwise how can I hope to someday live in a liberal place that will be patently offensive to any capitalists, communists or christians?
Me, I kind of like those cartoons. The one about running out of virgins is hilarious. Here is a link for slashdotters whose local media doesn't have balls.
I don't think the current violence has anything to do with an obscure newspaper page published 6 months ago. (Many) muslims just hate westerners and naturally find mascots to express their rage.
Eclipse is a monstrosity designed to do everything for everyone. I don't want to deal with a million project types, runtime types, views, debug targets or having to move all my source code to IDE's directory structure rather than where I actually want it to be. Just give me a tool that ONLY shows me options I need for Palm development. Besides, the new resource editor is a joke compared to CodeWarrior's Constructor, new "Simulator" doesn't actually emulate ARM hardware and the thing doesn't work on Mac.
I'm talking about the 8 megabyte barrier built into the palm pilot, not the 64K limit.
How come my Treo 650 shows 24MB free and I am pretty sure 68K-based CLIE handhelds had 16MB of RAM? In both cases, the memory can be accessed as regular database records rather than filesystem API. SD cards are anyway too slow to be accessed as regular RAM.
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Huh? Bank switching? Palm has a flat memory space. You can unprotect all the databases with MemSemaphoreReserve(true), do your dids and do MemSemaphoreRelease(true). The only catch is that blocking system calls like sockets or waiting for user events do not work while the semaphore is locked. If you need memory blocks > 64K, just use FtrNew.
While the OS is kind of primitive, writing, testing and publishing a small program for the original 68K devices used to be much easier than for WinCE or QTopia PDAs that existed at the same time. There is a nearly-perfect hardware emulator, Metrowerks supports C++ exceptions unlike embedded VC++ and on-device debugger is perfectly usable even over the serial port. It's too bad they decided to go with the hideous Eclipse/cygwin based thingy for native ARM development.
If the company doesn't get patents, it is acting against the interests of its shareholders,
How am I supposed to know what are the interests of my shareholders? If they are anything like general population, most of them download music from Kazaa, so presumably they don't like IP laws. If not, they can sell the stock or vote during shareholder's meeting. All I have to do is be honest by mentioning risks of lawsuits in my prospectus.
The expression of the opinion was in a newspaper, a very public forum. I don't care if they claimed they weren't an official spokesperson or not, they made a very public statement.
Are you implying that anyone with a job can not talk to a newspaper about a controversial personal opinion? Some free country! Read the article, it never mentions her ex-employer (and hey, she is seriously cute!).
In this particular case, she also made the comment "If there are laws I believe are wrong, I will break them." I'm sure this goes over well in a LAW firm that has serious concerns like attourney-client privledge.
She it talking about holding down Shift key while inserting a music CD. Sure you want to do a business with a lawyer who installs root kits on his PC?
Exactly. If he had gone to work for a doggie spa, then expressed opinions that pampering pooches was a tremendous waste of time and money, would we be upset that the owner fired him?
Absolutely, as long as his (actually her - read the article) job in the doggie spa was rank and file and the expression of opinion happened at off-work time and without claiming to be the official spokesperson for the company. Is everyone writting proprietary software for living now going to be fired for praising open source on slashdot? Are teachers going to be sacked for private, out-of-classroom belief in creationism or whatever?
Yeah, just like Microsoft probably loses money on OEM Windows licenses and doesn't make any if Dell users buy non-Microsoft software. So why aren't the PCs locked down? Oh wait, maybe allowing 3rd party software generates more interest in the platform and eventually results in more users getting MS software and OS upgrades.
It's not like that robotic hand actually has to manipulate anything. That way, the program would be actually usable by any deaf person with a notebook that has a microphone.
I guess this obvious troll got his/her dream of being modded up. What gives him away is the 50 year "fair-term" copyright limit. 5 years would be more like it. This is about right for a singer or a software company to produce something new and improved. How does absence of one particular law equate to an anarchy anyway? China and Russia saw a technological boom precisely because there were/are no enforceable copyrights and patents and the whole population could quickly get access to all the modern technology.
What the hell, I am an Apple user and I will gladly spend a few hundred bucks on a product I find well designed and useful. I might buy this one if I have enough occasions to watch video. I don't see anything offensive about the parent comment, someone needs to get a life.
Are you allowed to practice any religion you want without punitive recourse?
My (non)religious views allow abortion, gay/group marriage, assisted suicide and stem cell therapy. I hear some folks are being prosecuted or assaulted for trying to do these things.
Are you executed for being in possession of mind-altering drugs?
Killing someone is not the only way to destroy a life. A lengthy prison term and/or prison rape will do.
Can you freely travel to most parts of the world?
Sure, that's because most parts of the world, including China, make it easier to get a visa than US.
Can you read any publication in print or the web without gettign thrown in prison?
Dude, what's the big deal if he copied those big screen TVs without altering the originals in any way? If he truly couldn't afford them, the store doesn't lose anything and potentially gains mindshare - the guy will likely buy the sequels later when he has more money.
You must mean "niload ad site entries into my/machines directory":-) Anyway, I already use an adblocking stylesheet, I guess it's time for some updates.
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I did actually and now I am going out with her. Don't be such a cynic, especially today :-)
Since CmdrTahoe can not be bothered, I would like to use this chance to wish all slashdotter's a great Valentine's Day! Slack off work and go spend some quality time with your significant other or go ask someone out!!!
Otherwise it's stupid and discriminatory to fry a small potato, especially since any competitor can offer the same music catalog as iTunes (and if not, that's recording company's fault, not Apple's), while Windows competitors can not offer the same selection of apps as MS.
Legally corporate executives are obligated...
Care to provide reference to a law that creates such an obligation? I am pretty sure that they are only obligated to be honest with shareholders. Bill Gates could make some money for Microsoft by having sex with the highest bidder in a country where that's legal (say France). Yet nobody sued him for abstaining. Are you saying corporate executables are obligated to screw everyone else but are immune from getting screwed themselves?
Think of it this way. Would you consider it ok to decode/decrypt every feed coming down? There's lots of communication stuff up there, and lots of private data coming back down.
And whom did I force to send all those private radiowaves my way, in a format I can decode? Just because something is convenient for a particular person or company doesn't mean everyone else should be banned from using commonly available technology in their own private space.
I bet if every second of Michael's "work" hours were videotaped, he would too be caught playing games, making personal phone calls or staring at his scantly clad secretaty. We need new Republican scandals badly...
Surely Betty only has to pay what she thought was the cost of a new roof though? How is she supposed to know if she was never presented with and sign a contract?
Come on, muslims are not protesting that Mohammed has a bomb attached to his head. If they thought their prophet wouldn't approve of suicide bombers, they would protest rather than cheer after Sept 11. They are just not happy the cartoon showed Mohammed's face. Similarly, Bible Belt Christians would embrace your proposed cartoon. Their god destroyed a couple of cities for sexual deviations and apparently recently flooded New Orleans for practicing voodoo.
(Any) Religion:
1. Thou shall not kill
2. ???
3. Death penalty, holy war, withholding genetic treatments and AIDS prevention knowledge
Well, I don't see anyone jailing the Danish cartoonists. Their leader affirmed the freedom of press while responding to his muslim counterparts. Bill Clinton and even Bush have a right to their own opinions as long as they don't force them on me. With a heavy heart I have to say so do the people of Iraq and China as long as they don't commit any violence outside their borders and allow free emigration. Otherwise how can I hope to someday live in a liberal place that will be patently offensive to any capitalists, communists or christians?
Me, I kind of like those cartoons. The one about running out of virgins is hilarious. Here is a link for slashdotters whose local media doesn't have balls.
I don't think the current violence has anything to do with an obscure newspaper page published 6 months ago. (Many) muslims just hate westerners and naturally find mascots to express their rage.
Eclipse is a monstrosity designed to do everything for everyone. I don't want to deal with a million project types, runtime types, views, debug targets or having to move all my source code to IDE's directory structure rather than where I actually want it to be. Just give me a tool that ONLY shows me options I need for Palm development. Besides, the new resource editor is a joke compared to CodeWarrior's Constructor, new "Simulator" doesn't actually emulate ARM hardware and the thing doesn't work on Mac.
I'm talking about the 8 megabyte barrier built into the palm pilot, not the 64K limit.
How come my Treo 650 shows 24MB free and I am pretty sure 68K-based CLIE handhelds had 16MB of RAM? In both cases, the memory can be accessed as regular database records rather than filesystem API. SD cards are anyway too slow to be accessed as regular RAM.
Huh? Bank switching? Palm has a flat memory space. You can unprotect all the databases with MemSemaphoreReserve(true), do your dids and do MemSemaphoreRelease(true). The only catch is that blocking system calls like sockets or waiting for user events do not work while the semaphore is locked. If you need memory blocks > 64K, just use FtrNew.
While the OS is kind of primitive, writing, testing and publishing a small program for the original 68K devices used to be much easier than for WinCE or QTopia PDAs that existed at the same time. There is a nearly-perfect hardware emulator, Metrowerks supports C++ exceptions unlike embedded VC++ and on-device debugger is perfectly usable even over the serial port. It's too bad they decided to go with the hideous Eclipse/cygwin based thingy for native ARM development.
It does suggest that she is unethical (I believe A but will do work for anti-A if it makes me $$$).
And you expect lawyers to do anything else??
If I don't want my code to be used in DRMed products or nuclear weapons, I certainly have a right to say so. If you don't like that, write your own!
If the company doesn't get patents, it is acting against the interests of its shareholders,
How am I supposed to know what are the interests of my shareholders? If they are anything like general population, most of them download music from Kazaa, so presumably they don't like IP laws. If not, they can sell the stock or vote during shareholder's meeting. All I have to do is be honest by mentioning risks of lawsuits in my prospectus.
The expression of the opinion was in a newspaper, a very public forum. I don't care if they claimed they weren't an official spokesperson or not, they made a very public statement.
Are you implying that anyone with a job can not talk to a newspaper about a controversial personal opinion? Some free country! Read the article, it never mentions her ex-employer (and hey, she is seriously cute!).
In this particular case, she also made the comment "If there are laws I believe are wrong, I will break them." I'm sure this goes over well in a LAW firm that has serious concerns like attourney-client privledge.
She it talking about holding down Shift key while inserting a music CD. Sure you want to do a business with a lawyer who installs root kits on his PC?
Exactly. If he had gone to work for a doggie spa, then expressed opinions that pampering pooches was a tremendous waste of time and money, would we be upset that the owner fired him?
Absolutely, as long as his (actually her - read the article) job in the doggie spa was rank and file and the expression of opinion happened at off-work time and without claiming to be the official spokesperson for the company. Is everyone writting proprietary software for living now going to be fired for praising open source on slashdot? Are teachers going to be sacked for private, out-of-classroom belief in creationism or whatever?
Yeah, just like Microsoft probably loses money on OEM Windows licenses and doesn't make any if Dell users buy non-Microsoft software. So why aren't the PCs locked down? Oh wait, maybe allowing 3rd party software generates more interest in the platform and eventually results in more users getting MS software and OS upgrades.
However, after I caught one of the students cheating with another
Did you catch her on camera??? I want the URL!
It's not like that robotic hand actually has to manipulate anything. That way, the program would be actually usable by any deaf person with a notebook that has a microphone.
I guess this obvious troll got his/her dream of being modded up. What gives him away is the 50 year "fair-term" copyright limit. 5 years would be more like it. This is about right for a singer or a software company to produce something new and improved. How does absence of one particular law equate to an anarchy anyway? China and Russia saw a technological boom precisely because there were/are no enforceable copyrights and patents and the whole population could quickly get access to all the modern technology.
What the hell, I am an Apple user and I will gladly spend a few hundred bucks on a product I find well designed and useful. I might buy this one if I have enough occasions to watch video. I don't see anything offensive about the parent comment, someone needs to get a life.
Can you publish politically dissenting views?
Not if you want to keep your job
Can you openly criticize the government?
nope
Are you allowed to practice any religion you want without punitive recourse?
My (non)religious views allow abortion, gay/group marriage, assisted suicide and stem cell therapy. I hear some folks are being prosecuted or assaulted for trying to do these things.
Are you executed for being in possession of mind-altering drugs?
Killing someone is not the only way to destroy a life. A lengthy prison term and/or prison rape will do.
Can you freely travel to most parts of the world?
Sure, that's because most parts of the world, including China, make it easier to get a visa than US.
Can you read any publication in print or the web without gettign thrown in prison?
You got to be kidding!
Dude, what's the big deal if he copied those big screen TVs without altering the originals in any way? If he truly couldn't afford them, the store doesn't lose anything and potentially gains mindshare - the guy will likely buy the sequels later when he has more money.
You must mean "niload ad site entries into my /machines directory" :-) Anyway, I already use an adblocking stylesheet, I guess it's time for some updates.