In light of all this, my personal feelings about preliminary injunction motions have changed from "negative" to "neutral", and my view of their tactical suitability has changed from "overly ambitious" to "apparently necessary". Apple needs to get leverage, especially in the United States, but also in other jurisdictions, before it comes under too much pressure due to some companies' FRAND abuse. (Again, without the things that happened during those past eight days, I would also have reacted differently to this week's motion).
If I bought a $250 thermostat, I'd definitely take it with me when I leave the house. Shoot, I did that with my $60 thermostat; the old owner can have the previous 1960's era piece of junk.
Appleton has owned more than 20 airplanes and is known for doing aerobatics. He crashed in July of 2004 while performing maneuvers over the Idaho desert.
In an interview with Appleton after that crash, he said he suffered a few scrapes and scratches.
"I was only in the hospital one night and then I went home and showed up for work Monday morning," said Appleton about the crash. "I've been flying since then and everything's back to normal."
That crash left some wondering if the CEO was taking too many risks, considering he is head of a major corporation.
"My description of myself, whether I'm the CEO of a very competitive industry or whether I happen to fly aerobatics in airplanes, it's all one package. I mean, it's the personality that comes through in my business at my personal life."
Carolyn Holly spoke with Appleton in 2004 about his flying, Appleton said he is very fortunate for the things he has been able to do.
"I'm very fortunate, lucky to be able to experience the kinds of things that I do," Appleton said. "If my life were to end tomorrow, I've had a full life."
Considering the role Perl (and the other software products they use) has in their business, it seems like a very small sum of money.
Had they purchased commercial software from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft etc. to solve this task the price would have been a two-digit million-dollar figure. And probably a bunch of additional millions on top of that, for more iron to run it on.
So they're required to donate more because they are efficient?
But using a project like Perl (as opposed to a commercial software product) means that contributions are more than just a monetary sum. Things like that have already been mentioned like contributing code, fixes, bug reports. I'll also throw in advocacy; they get good pub for themselves with the donation but also a strong example for The Perl Foundation for Perl in the enterprise.
Even on scales of visibility Perl is still in the top 10 and pretty much stays about there for as long as I've checked the Tiobe Index.
Perl is like a shovel. There may be fancy post hole drills pneumatic jackhammers out there that get all the page views at Home Depot. But there will always be the shovel; because it gets the job done simply and have more uses than you think.
Eventually everyone is going to settle. (Steve Jobs may have wanted to drive Android out of existence, but that’s probably not going to happen.) The question is what kind of terms will everyone get in these settlements. The court fights are really just a way of jockeying for position and trying to gain leverage for the great settlement that is yet to come.
In that sense, whatever Apple is spending on legal fees is probably money well spent.
Is getting a search warrant on someone really that time consuming?
More time consuming than not getting one; I'm sure most people reading Slashdot understand the potential for laziness. I don't think you need to fire the officers that used GPS; I'm sure they were told it was ok by a bunch of lawyers in their respective departments and bureaus.
That said, I'm happy to see this ruling from the Supreme Court.
Or at least I hope the iPad 3 comes in a 256GB version, because the first 51 pages of "Life on Earth" weigh in at about 1GB. A fully interactive AND full-length textbook at 19MB/page is going to end up being something like 16GB per book.
What if they deliver the books over the air and you have a library like iTunes Match?
You could have your whole library downloaded to a PC or have a mobile device with which you sync books before you travel outside of internet range and that mobile device wouldn't have to that much larger than they are now (max size 64GB for iPad and iPod Touch).
... get rid of the legal structure in place that makes this type of lawsuit have a good enough chance of prohibiting or delaying a competitors product that it makes good financial sense to proceed?
I wish that money spent on lawyers was spend on engineering, or alternatively, entertaining commercials.
All we need is another MS-specific filesystem to cause compatibility headaches.
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It was the same here. Our car supports E85 and the three tanks of it we tried we got 13% less mileage and paid only 6% less for the fuel. It just didn't make sense. The first fill-up was nice, because the price per tank was lower, but that came crashing down when I had to fill up much earlier than I normally do (based on miles on the tank).
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Compared to you and me, everyone else in the room has the IQ of a carrot.
these folks could "safely" buy and use a TV without us.
Man, I REALLY would like to get my nights and weekends back.
In light of all this, my personal feelings about preliminary injunction motions have changed from "negative" to "neutral", and my view of their tactical suitability has changed from "overly ambitious" to "apparently necessary". Apple needs to get leverage, especially in the United States, but also in other jurisdictions, before it comes under too much pressure due to some companies' FRAND abuse. (Again, without the things that happened during those past eight days, I would also have reacted differently to this week's motion).
Why even bother with industrial grade hard drive whipping?
Perhaps they're into HDSM.
I agree-- the best type of HDSM is industrial grade.
If I bought a $250 thermostat, I'd definitely take it with me when I leave the house. Shoot, I did that with my $60 thermostat; the old owner can have the previous 1960's era piece of junk.
Well done, sir.
Appleton has owned more than 20 airplanes and is known for doing aerobatics. He crashed in July of 2004 while performing maneuvers over the Idaho desert.
In an interview with Appleton after that crash, he said he suffered a few scrapes and scratches.
"I was only in the hospital one night and then I went home and showed up for work Monday morning," said Appleton about the crash. "I've been flying since then and everything's back to normal."
That crash left some wondering if the CEO was taking too many risks, considering he is head of a major corporation.
"My description of myself, whether I'm the CEO of a very competitive industry or whether I happen to fly aerobatics in airplanes, it's all one package. I mean, it's the personality that comes through in my business at my personal life."
Carolyn Holly spoke with Appleton in 2004 about his flying, Appleton said he is very fortunate for the things he has been able to do.
"I'm very fortunate, lucky to be able to experience the kinds of things that I do," Appleton said. "If my life were to end tomorrow, I've had a full life."
And there you were complaining about all the toxic waste that cheap manufacturing and lax environment laws in China.
We could have blue-eyed sightseeing children here in the US, but, OH NO, you had to have cheap iPhones!!
Considering the role Perl (and the other software products they use) has in their business, it seems like a very small sum of money. Had they purchased commercial software from Oracle, IBM, Microsoft etc. to solve this task the price would have been a two-digit million-dollar figure. And probably a bunch of additional millions on top of that, for more iron to run it on.
So they're required to donate more because they are efficient?
But using a project like Perl (as opposed to a commercial software product) means that contributions are more than just a monetary sum. Things like that have already been mentioned like contributing code, fixes, bug reports. I'll also throw in advocacy; they get good pub for themselves with the donation but also a strong example for The Perl Foundation for Perl in the enterprise.
Even on scales of visibility Perl is still in the top 10 and pretty much stays about there for as long as I've checked the Tiobe Index.
Perl is like a shovel. There may be fancy post hole drills pneumatic jackhammers out there that get all the page views at Home Depot. But there will always be the shovel; because it gets the job done simply and have more uses than you think.
"Firefox n released" is not a story.
I wonder, what is his slashdot id?
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"memory savings".
Spending money on a media blitz to make sure that everyone knows how you're watching them is going above and beyond.
Hmmm, now I'm suspicious... wait a minute...
[Disclaimer: I'm a Google engineer.
Ah, now I get it.
From original TFA:
Eventually everyone is going to settle. (Steve Jobs may have wanted to drive Android out of existence, but that’s probably not going to happen.) The question is what kind of terms will everyone get in these settlements. The court fights are really just a way of jockeying for position and trying to gain leverage for the great settlement that is yet to come.
In that sense, whatever Apple is spending on legal fees is probably money well spent.
Alarms always go off when someone tells me that.
Similarly, different kinds of alarms that go off when some one says, "I'm not a slut."
Is getting a search warrant on someone really that time consuming?
More time consuming than not getting one; I'm sure most people reading Slashdot understand the potential for laziness. I don't think you need to fire the officers that used GPS; I'm sure they were told it was ok by a bunch of lawyers in their respective departments and bureaus.
That said, I'm happy to see this ruling from the Supreme Court.
Don't dream and drive; the live you save might be your own.
How can a US court take down a business located in Hong Kong?
Because they conducted business (had servers and accepted payments from) the district of Eastern Virginia, where the case was filed.
The first few pages of the indictment read a lot like some of the business plans I read in the early oughts.
"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
Or at least I hope the iPad 3 comes in a 256GB version, because the first 51 pages of "Life on Earth" weigh in at about 1GB. A fully interactive AND full-length textbook at 19MB/page is going to end up being something like 16GB per book.
What if they deliver the books over the air and you have a library like iTunes Match?
You could have your whole library downloaded to a PC or have a mobile device with which you sync books before you travel outside of internet range and that mobile device wouldn't have to that much larger than they are now (max size 64GB for iPad and iPod Touch).
Not only is this story a dupe, but it was posted by the very same person when TFA originally came out.
The Copyright Nightmare of I Have A Dream
... get rid of the legal structure in place that makes this type of lawsuit have a good enough chance of prohibiting or delaying a competitors product that it makes good financial sense to proceed?
I wish that money spent on lawyers was spend on engineering, or alternatively, entertaining commercials.
All we need is another MS-specific filesystem to cause compatibility headaches.
It was the same here. Our car supports E85 and the three tanks of it we tried we got 13% less mileage and paid only 6% less for the fuel. It just didn't make sense. The first fill-up was nice, because the price per tank was lower, but that came crashing down when I had to fill up much earlier than I normally do (based on miles on the tank).