I thought the US was the only country that thought it could apply its laws to anyone in the world, even its own citizens when they don't reside in the country.
One of the main problems in all of this is human nature.
Climate change is a real problem, but many people are trying to profit off of that problem. There's a lot of money changing hands here, and most of the corporations that will stand to benefit or be destroyed really don't care about the science. They want their money. Everyone on slashdot knows just how much a corporation can be trusted to do the right thing.
Thus, there is an inherent lack of trust among some people who, wrongly, don't think anything is happening. The green movement is so highly politicized that it loses credibility in the eyes of many, since we all know politicians are the most credible people we know.
My analogy for the climate change problem is that of parents telling their little kid to eat their spinach. The parents know the spinach is good for the kid, the kid knows it too, but out of spite for his parents the kid avoids eating the spinach at all costs.
HDD speed matters much more than you probably realize. If you get a SSD, which is a very low latency device, you can do more ops / sec and suddenly that 8GB of ram is unnecessary. Plus with some of the more advanced (sampled) audio instruments, even one mic position can take up to 8 GB of space. For example, I have a sampled instrument that is 8GB for each of the mic positions it offers.
You would not believe the performance boost I got when I put an Intel SSD into my music workstation--you don't even need the ones that have high write speeds. An X-25M drive is a fantastic investment because it can read all my files on the fly. It's awfully expensive (and time consuming) to get 64 GB of ram and then have to wait for your mechanical hard drive to load all that stuff into memory, not to mention the stuttering that happens when you push too many I/Os per second through it.
Cores are obviously nice for tone-generated instruments, but IMHO, a faster CPU with a low-latency hard drive works the best if you're into the really high-end stuff.
You raise a valid point, except for as alluded to in my post, Steve Jobs/Apple does not own the patents in question. Your analogy would be correct if Apple owned the patents.
Now now, they haven't sued anybody about this yet... this could just be inside info about the MPEG LA. It's possible that SJ breaks disclosure agreements as would a normal person. Wikipedia link scroll down to patent licensing.
The police have not searched the contents of any seized computers. Now, since they can interview the person who found the phone, they can determine the actual circumstances behind its disappearance. The police, by finding this guy, may now have a legal outlet to search the computers they seized because they may have found probable cause.
<rant> Not totally related to parent, butI know it is very popular right now to say, "Apple = bad, Google/open source = good," right now on slashdot. This is really getting insane. As a pillar of the open source movement, the EFF has a lot of sway here. However, most everything they release is heavily politicized and slanted. They do that consistently. Most people seem to assume Apple is guilty of something since their commercial views don't align with certain ideologies. If someone feels the above needs a [citation needed] tag, please go to another information source on the Internet. It's not like you have to go outside. Go RTFA from multiple sources to get the best overall view of the situation. I know, I must be new here, but honestly there is a huge problem with "complaining, complaining, complaining!" about apple on slashdot right now, and it's seriously turning me, and many others, off.
Fanboys who I have just offended may now mod me into oblivion. </rant>
A mathematician, an engineer, and a computer scientist are the final candidates for the top tech spot at a major corporation. They are summoned one by one to be interviewed.
The mathematician goes to the interview. The person interviewing him is the CEO of the company. Only one question is asked: "What is 1+1?" The mathematician pulls out a pen and paper, makes a few scribbles, and says "This is proof that 1+1=2!"
The engineer goes to the interview next. The CEO asks him the same question, "What is 1+1?" The engineer promptly grabs a calculator from his pocket, types in 1+1 and presses the equals sign. He shows the result to the CEO: "This calculation proves that 1+1=2!"
The computer scientist is last. He is nervous, but fairly calm. The CEO asks him the same question. The computer scientist pauses, scratches his head for a second, and pulls out his laptop and asks "What do you want it to be?"
I'll 1 up you with my story: As a CS TA, I taught two students who decided that they'd turn in the exact same paper. I don't just mean the exact same code, I mean same md5 signature on the file et al... Turns out one of them had written his name inside the comments at the top!
The CEO of Palm, Jon Rubenstein, was hired away from Apple where had a senior vice president position (before Palm came out with the Pre).
Apple hired away an IBM processor expert, which caused IBM to quickly file a non-compete suit against the person/Apple in New York state. (Non-completes are illegal in California) Apple, thus, had to wait a long time before they got the person they wanted to head what we now know as the A4 chip (which obviously does not compete with IBM's chip offerings)
These are two really high profile examples, I'm sure there are a lot more... If anything, competition between Google and Apple is really heating up (as shown on many a slashdot discussion board), so poaching employees is probably not out of the realm of possibility.
IIRC, tablets run more-or-less normal versions of Windows XP so the admin rights were built into the account to begin with! There was no need to get "root" because it was enabled by default.
Undoubtedly, there will be tons of apple haters in this discussion who are sick of hearing about ipad because it's not open, proprietary, etc. The community understands your arguments. Bashing apple while trying to compare them to microsoft just undermines your credibility and the valid point you are trying to make.
While VDM's strategy is "interesting," they are going to have some problems making this work. If they steer clear of copyright infringement, they are fine.
However, if they are automating the production of these books without checking for copyrighted material, Company A will not be happy when they find their copyrighted material in there. Not to mention that being a "legitimate" business puts a massive litigation target on their back. Since the material is print there is no more DMCA slap on the wrist. In other words, do not be around them when the shit --> fan.
Just imagine how the RIAA or MPAA could exploit this.
I was trying to think of why Apple would seemingly do something so reckless so I visited the icontrolpad website.
Playing devils advocate, there are three issues I see that could derail these developers:
On the top of their site, they clearly indicate that their controller is for jailbroken iPhones. While jailbroken iPhones/iPods are generally considered a good thing by nerds, the courts might not see it the same way.
Since they are using jailbroken iPhones, it is quite possible that they are not paying Apple for the rights to use Apple's proprietary connector.
When they decided to sell the gaming accessory (i.e. profit from it), they opened up a legal can of worms because they need to pay the fee for the connector.
While this move by Apple is deeply troubling morally, legally there may be nothing the icontrolpad devs can do to stop a lawsuit with our current laws.
I wish the dev team the best because their innovation has helped and inspired so many people.
I don't know too many novice (fresh off the boat) C programmers who ever need to worry about memory leak or access problems that wouldn't exist in any other strongly typed language. That's something an intermediate or advanced person does. More powerful features are for people who know the language better. C is simple if you stick to basics.
"If you give me a 640x480 JPEG of the most honest of men, I will find something in it which will hang him"
Personally, I'd like to be hung in one of those new electronic frames that switch the picture every 30 secs, although 640x480 is really pushing the envelope for decent pictures.
The electric industry is quite heavily regulated, though. For example, a company responsible for generation cannot also do distribution, by federal law. Companies actually have to split apart organizationally to make this happen, and the feds get very angry if there's any collusion between operators. So if google does the generation, they will have to pay someone else ( an ISO) to get that electricity to their facilities. Disclosure: IIAPEE (I am a power electronics engineer)
I was a TA at a Major State University teaching sophomores Java. We actually had an incident where the _exact_ same homework was submitted to our WebCT between two people. One student had actually written the program had put his name in the comments. The other was a little... shall we say... lazy?
So we go to correct these homeworks, and the student who had cheated did not bother to change the original student's name in the comments. You could have MD5'd the files and they'd be exactly the same. The prof was nice about it and gave the cheater 0/2 points for the assignment, plus an apology letter to the TA. I would have expelled the little bastard. Then again, I was rather heartless that semester...
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No, people are assholes pretty much anywhere.
Hey, we all know only Mormons go to heaven!
A rather cynical view might be that Google is doing for the TV what Apple did for the phone.
One of the main problems in all of this is human nature.
Climate change is a real problem, but many people are trying to profit off of that problem. There's a lot of money changing hands here, and most of the corporations that will stand to benefit or be destroyed really don't care about the science. They want their money. Everyone on slashdot knows just how much a corporation can be trusted to do the right thing.
Thus, there is an inherent lack of trust among some people who, wrongly, don't think anything is happening. The green movement is so highly politicized that it loses credibility in the eyes of many, since we all know politicians are the most credible people we know.
My analogy for the climate change problem is that of parents telling their little kid to eat their spinach. The parents know the spinach is good for the kid, the kid knows it too, but out of spite for his parents the kid avoids eating the spinach at all costs.
Is it a logical position? No. Is it human? Yes.
HDD speed matters much more than you probably realize. If you get a SSD, which is a very low latency device, you can do more ops / sec and suddenly that 8GB of ram is unnecessary. Plus with some of the more advanced (sampled) audio instruments, even one mic position can take up to 8 GB of space. For example, I have a sampled instrument that is 8GB for each of the mic positions it offers.
You would not believe the performance boost I got when I put an Intel SSD into my music workstation--you don't even need the ones that have high write speeds. An X-25M drive is a fantastic investment because it can read all my files on the fly. It's awfully expensive (and time consuming) to get 64 GB of ram and then have to wait for your mechanical hard drive to load all that stuff into memory, not to mention the stuttering that happens when you push too many I/Os per second through it.
Cores are obviously nice for tone-generated instruments, but IMHO, a faster CPU with a low-latency hard drive works the best if you're into the really high-end stuff.
You raise a valid point, except for as alluded to in my post, Steve Jobs/Apple does not own the patents in question. Your analogy would be correct if Apple owned the patents.
Now now, they haven't sued anybody about this yet... this could just be inside info about the MPEG LA. It's possible that SJ breaks disclosure agreements as would a normal person.
Wikipedia link scroll down to patent licensing.
Did you learn everything about politics and government from Schoolhouse Rock?
Actually, I think that was the Simpsons.
The police have not searched the contents of any seized computers. Now, since they can interview the person who found the phone, they can determine the actual circumstances behind its disappearance. The police, by finding this guy, may now have a legal outlet to search the computers they seized because they may have found probable cause.
<rant>
Not totally related to parent, butI know it is very popular right now to say, "Apple = bad, Google/open source = good," right now on slashdot. This is really getting insane. As a pillar of the open source movement, the EFF has a lot of sway here. However, most everything they release is heavily politicized and slanted. They do that consistently. Most people seem to assume Apple is guilty of something since their commercial views don't align with certain ideologies.
If someone feels the above needs a [citation needed] tag, please go to another information source on the Internet. It's not like you have to go outside. Go RTFA from multiple sources to get the best overall view of the situation. I know, I must be new here, but honestly there is a huge problem with "complaining, complaining, complaining!" about apple on slashdot right now, and it's seriously turning me, and many others, off.
Fanboys who I have just offended may now mod me into oblivion.
</rant>
This just proves that once you get fat, you never go back!
A mathematician, an engineer, and a computer scientist are the final candidates for the top tech spot at a major corporation. They are summoned one by one to be interviewed.
The mathematician goes to the interview. The person interviewing him is the CEO of the company. Only one question is asked: "What is 1+1?"
The mathematician pulls out a pen and paper, makes a few scribbles, and says "This is proof that 1+1=2!"
The engineer goes to the interview next. The CEO asks him the same question, "What is 1+1?"
The engineer promptly grabs a calculator from his pocket, types in 1+1 and presses the equals sign. He shows the result to the CEO: "This calculation proves that 1+1=2!"
The computer scientist is last. He is nervous, but fairly calm. The CEO asks him the same question.
The computer scientist pauses, scratches his head for a second, and pulls out his laptop and asks "What do you want it to be?"
I'll 1 up you with my story:
As a CS TA, I taught two students who decided that they'd turn in the exact same paper. I don't just mean the exact same code, I mean same md5 signature on the file et al... Turns out one of them had written his name inside the comments at the top!
that was definitely stupid++
After a few minutes of googling, I reaffirm my claim:
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/21349/
That's not to say parent was not correct, but that my comment was taken out of context.
These are two really high profile examples, I'm sure there are a lot more... If anything, competition between Google and Apple is really heating up (as shown on many a slashdot discussion board), so poaching employees is probably not out of the realm of possibility.
spasibium / pajalstium ?
IIRC, tablets run more-or-less normal versions of Windows XP so the admin rights were built into the account to begin with! There was no need to get "root" because it was enabled by default.
Undoubtedly, there will be tons of apple haters in this discussion who are sick of hearing about ipad because it's not open, proprietary, etc. The community understands your arguments. Bashing apple while trying to compare them to microsoft just undermines your credibility and the valid point you are trying to make.
While VDM's strategy is "interesting," they are going to have some problems making this work. If they steer clear of copyright infringement, they are fine.
However, if they are automating the production of these books without checking for copyrighted material, Company A will not be happy when they find their copyrighted material in there. Not to mention that being a "legitimate" business puts a massive litigation target on their back. Since the material is print there is no more DMCA slap on the wrist. In other words, do not be around them when the shit --> fan.
Just imagine how the RIAA or MPAA could exploit this.
I was trying to think of why Apple would seemingly do something so reckless so I visited the icontrolpad website.
Playing devils advocate, there are three issues I see that could derail these developers:
While jailbroken iPhones/iPods are generally considered a good thing by nerds, the courts might not see it the same way.
While this move by Apple is deeply troubling morally, legally there may be nothing the icontrolpad devs can do to stop a lawsuit with our current laws.
I wish the dev team the best because their innovation has helped and inspired so many people.
I don't know too many novice (fresh off the boat) C programmers who ever need to worry about memory leak or access problems that wouldn't exist in any other strongly typed language. That's something an intermediate or advanced person does. More powerful features are for people who know the language better. C is simple if you stick to basics.
Personally, I'd like to be hung in one of those new electronic frames that switch the picture every 30 secs, although 640x480 is really pushing the envelope for decent pictures.
The electric industry is quite heavily regulated, though. For example, a company responsible for generation cannot also do distribution, by federal law. Companies actually have to split apart organizationally to make this happen, and the feds get very angry if there's any collusion between operators. So if google does the generation, they will have to pay someone else ( an ISO) to get that electricity to their facilities. Disclosure: IIAPEE (I am a power electronics engineer)
I was a TA at a Major State University teaching sophomores Java. We actually had an incident where the _exact_ same homework was submitted to our WebCT between two people. One student had actually written the program had put his name in the comments. The other was a little... shall we say... lazy?
So we go to correct these homeworks, and the student who had cheated did not bother to change the original student's name in the comments. You could have MD5'd the files and they'd be exactly the same. The prof was nice about it and gave the cheater 0/2 points for the assignment, plus an apology letter to the TA. I would have expelled the little bastard. Then again, I was rather heartless that semester...
Go to google, type "Why" and you'll also get:
"why can't i own a canadian"
I guess in some places that's a pretty legitimate question...
...I have the exact same problem as Woz with my 2007 Camry.
For the sake of us all: Please do not drive and talk on the phone at the same time.