True, but these people aren't going to be buying an operating system. They are just going to use what's ont he computer.
Will computer manufacturers be selling PCs with NO media player? Not likely, they'd be flooded with people what to know why there computer don't work like others.
I just doubt there is going to be much competition added by this move.
Because the US is not likely to sell them to the highest black market bidder. N. Korea is, likewise Iran.
We also aren't going to be nuking canada or mexico anytime soon, but Iran may just lob a nuke at Isreal as soon as they get the ablity. Yes, it would be stupid, but they may do it anyway.
They usually love this kind of stuff. Most areas have one or more stations that will confront the asshats with media exposure. They usually fold like a bad hand.
You do realize that (at least according to them) that there's stuff in that code which is licensed from third parties and they can't (legally) just open it all up.
Nvidia gets around it by doing a binary driver with a bit of open sourced glue between it and the kernel. I don't know what ATI does. (I've owned one ATi product, and that taught me about buying Ati) But either way they are putting some work in it already. The parent was just hoping for MORE.
How about taking a deep breath and trying not to be such a idiot.
Total crap is more accurate. I haven't used it yet without some type of malfunction. Based on this pile, I'm going to recommending nvidia to anyone who asks about gfx cards until ATI hires some programmers.
They could sell it to a company that actually produces something. NTP does nothing, they just barter in rights.
Actually, you're onto something there. Why should the IP system allow for the full rights to an invention or book or whatever to be sold? Someone can make license agreements to whoever without transferring ownership of the IP, so that the hold on the invention/book/song exsits only as long as it's creator does.
That one change to IP law would allow people who create/do things to continue to have an incentive, while working against firms like NTP that contribute nothing to the market (except for maybe the lawyer market).
I dunno, I did get an ipod out of those guys. Of course, I created a temp email just for that. Will probably get junk snail mail, but that gets immdeiately chucked anyway.
But then your employer or whatever IP bought out your patents will eventually sue me because they have the patent on compression on a digital computer. Sure a patent could be written that was specfic enough to just cover your method, but it won't be.
Software can and should be protected by copyright rather than patent. Perhaps if it's something truely novel, then I can see getting a patent for it. But that's not how the system is being used. Companies are patenting simple ideas rather than novel implementations.
With some patented hydraulic invention, I am still free to come up with a better way of doing the same thing.
With these software patents, I'm prohibited from making anything that accomplishes X, even if I have a novel method, because company Y has a patent on software that does that.
I think he was talking about THIS mac. I wonder if an used G4 tower might be a better deal than this, though. The ebay prices seemed a bit inflated last time I looked.
I could really care less which word processor I'm using as long as the file compatibilty is there. I spend most of my Office time in Access and Excel, in that order.
Very interesting. I wonder, since it is likely that many people with wireless APs wouldn't actually care if thier neighbors used their connection or not. Could someone reasonably make that assumption that if the system give them an address, it's ok?
For a while, my laptop would always prefer a nearby unsecured site to my secure AP (I didn't have the password entered in the right place), so when I would start up using that other network until I changed it to mine. If I were less adept at this stuff, I may very well have just assumed that it all was fine because it was working.
I don't know, I'm not a expert, but AFIAK the difference between public and private is not security but intent. For example, leaving the front door to your house unlocked or open does not make it public because everyone knows that that is still private property regardless of the security or lack thereof. Tresspassing would still apply.
But what if a public place like a library leaves the door wide open (by accident), would trespassing be in effect then? (I'm talking trespass, since the legal def of "hacking" is usually computer trespass)
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Will computer manufacturers be selling PCs with NO media player? Not likely, they'd be flooded with people what to know why there computer don't work like others.
I just doubt there is going to be much competition added by this move.If it were cheaper, than you might have something.
It's a cool mod, but I don't see any advantage to it that you couldn't get adding a handle to a SFF PC.
Check out the Tapwave product, a palm with a real graphics chip and a gaming oriented design. That's what theyre looking to dominate.
We also aren't going to be nuking canada or mexico anytime soon, but Iran may just lob a nuke at Isreal as soon as they get the ablity. Yes, it would be stupid, but they may do it anyway.
They usually love this kind of stuff. Most areas have one or more stations that will confront the asshats with media exposure. They usually fold like a bad hand.
How's that different than any other software?
This is what happens when you hinge the whole economy on the stock market.
It's not all that different at all. The original ones were a different class, but the current BBs are as much a PDA as an average Palm/PPC.
Nvidia gets around it by doing a binary driver with a bit of open sourced glue between it and the kernel. I don't know what ATI does. (I've owned one ATi product, and that taught me about buying Ati) But either way they are putting some work in it already. The parent was just hoping for MORE.
How about taking a deep breath and trying not to be such a idiot.Not really, the parent was using wikipedia as an sole authoritative source. He responded well enough to that.
Total crap is more accurate. I haven't used it yet without some type of malfunction. Based on this pile, I'm going to recommending nvidia to anyone who asks about gfx cards until ATI hires some programmers.
Actually, you're onto something there. Why should the IP system allow for the full rights to an invention or book or whatever to be sold? Someone can make license agreements to whoever without transferring ownership of the IP, so that the hold on the invention/book/song exsits only as long as it's creator does.
That one change to IP law would allow people who create/do things to continue to have an incentive, while working against firms like NTP that contribute nothing to the market (except for maybe the lawyer market).Except he was replanting HIS seeds which came from HIS plants on HIS land that were contanimated ny a neighbor.
That is just nasty.
I dunno, I did get an ipod out of those guys. Of course, I created a temp email just for that. Will probably get junk snail mail, but that gets immdeiately chucked anyway.
But then your employer or whatever IP bought out your patents will eventually sue me because they have the patent on compression on a digital computer. Sure a patent could be written that was specfic enough to just cover your method, but it won't be.
Actually, it could be a great idea for project colloraboration. As long as it included some sort of version tracking, that is.
With some patented hydraulic invention, I am still free to come up with a better way of doing the same thing.
With these software patents, I'm prohibited from making anything that accomplishes X, even if I have a novel method, because company Y has a patent on software that does that.I think he was talking about THIS mac. I wonder if an used G4 tower might be a better deal than this, though. The ebay prices seemed a bit inflated last time I looked.
Since he is likely to be doing this while he could otherwise be getting paid, it probably is.
How long have they had to port it now?
For a while, my laptop would always prefer a nearby unsecured site to my secure AP (I didn't have the password entered in the right place), so when I would start up using that other network until I changed it to mine. If I were less adept at this stuff, I may very well have just assumed that it all was fine because it was working.
ELaborate.
But what if a public place like a library leaves the door wide open (by accident), would trespassing be in effect then? (I'm talking trespass, since the legal def of "hacking" is usually computer trespass)
"Theft of service" may be another leagl route.