The problem is I don't believe it was an honest mistake, so I'd rather they didn't lie in the first place.
All this has taught BoingBoing is that they can lie, get the publicity, then admit they lied and get more publicity. As to evidence: I'd point to the fact that they had no evidence whatsoever to back-up their claim and yet they made it any way. The onus isn't on me.
Well I'll give you the US model: rip-off IP like mad while you are developing and then when you have something you want to protect force the world to adopt draconian laws to your benefit.
Don't see how anyone in the US can whine about this when they pioneered that development model.
Doesn't use WiFi, it uses the mobile 'phone network, but you don't have to sign-up and you pay nothing for access. You can browse the web, subscribe to blogs, access wikipedia and it has a built in copy of the US OED. And the battery lasts for days with the 'phone connection turned on and weeks with it turned off.
Oh and you can download and read books on it as well. (Quite a few classics on Amazon are free. As in beer.);)
"New Labour" really hates dissent so they like to make sure that there can be no appeal against the decisions they make by, for example, creating or supporting Quangos like the IWF to carry out their dirty work whilst avoiding the responsibility or the statutory over-sight that would be required if HM Government did this officially.
Personally I don't see it stopping until the IWF get sued.
Oh yeah with a Macbook it's much more complicated, here's what you do. You buy the part cheap on eBay or ifixit, you download the service manual for free and spend 20 minutes replacing the part. Or, if you're not savvy, you pay someone to do it for you - and it's relatively cheap.
Better to remain silent and thought a fool than speak and confirm it.
...is with the bleeding heart liberals, like the poster of this story, who have forced schools to escalate matters in a formal manner.
Pre-lunacy the school could and would have dealt with it internally: confiscated the 'phone and caned the disobedient child. But now because of bleeding-heart liberals they can't do that so they are left with the only option of escalation.
No half-way decent school can afford to let one stroppy badly behaved child get away with that kind of behaviour. If you're looking for someone to blame: look at the "me me me" generation brat and her crappy parents.
Not only do we taxpayers get to carry on subsidising the world's poor and keeping their leaders in designer shoes, now as customers of the drugs companies, we get to subsidise their medicines as well.
I give to charities, domestic and foreign, because I've decided they are deserving of my money. It is not the job of Government to do so on my behalf.
They're crafted with a very specific aim in mind: freedom. The LGPL is a compromise. It's just not congruent with your aims, which appear to be far more "stupid and arbitrary" then either the GPL or the LGPL.
I shouldn't be prevented by the State from killing people, like you, that I disagree with. Or annoy me whilst I'm driving. Or take too long paying when I'm in the queue behind them. Or look funny at me. Or if I'm simply having a bad day.
It's about time out-moded Christian morality, that prevents me from torturing people like you for an exptended period of time and then murdering you, stopped influencing our laws.
The real problem is that too many people, and I expect this includes you, are too stupid to get my point.
Personally I think every country should be run as a Meritocracy. Only the higher-rate tax payers, ie people like me, who make a nett contribution to the country should be allowed the vote.
I'd be prepared to consider allowing basic rate tax payers (i.e. the poor) the vote if they had a degree in a useful subject (eg not Social Science nor Drama nor Political Science nor Marketing nor any other non-subject).
Won't happen. For three reasons:
1) to make an example of Psystar. Their infringement cant be seen to have succeeded.
2) They are a two-bit operation which Apple would never want to deal with.
3) Apple is a hardware company. Why would they want to support a competitor?
Actually no they arent. The copies they have purchased are UPGRADES. You only get a full copy when you buy a Mac.
There's also the DMCA to consider. I bet Psystar are in for a world of hurt.
If you'd said "Most of that is design." Yep you could be right.
If you'd said "Most of that is because they don't produce cheap and nasty products" you could be right.
Personally think it's because they are prepared to make the investment to do the job right (or at least markedly better than their competitors) and charge for it.
But
Yep because it was a bunch of really dumb people that developed the atomic bomb and another bunch of really dumb people who dropped it, twice, on two large cities.
Dumb people are incapable of doing anything more than local damage. It takes smart people to fuck things up on a large scale.
If you're going to be picky then try and get your facts straight. Mac is short for Macintosh, which is the name of a series of computers made by Apple. Apple is the name of the computer company.
...to be in the same position that Microsoft are today.
So I assume the article must be arguing for Apple to keep the iPhone closed? (No I didn't bother rtfa, the summary made it sound crap and this is slashdot).
No the real solution is for the parents to SMACK their ill behaved, stroppy, "you owe me" kids.
If you don't like being educated at the tax payer's expense then fuck off and get a job.
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The "Catholic far Right"? Damn I'd heard it was the gay alien flying pigs that were behind it all!!!!!!!1111one!!!!eleven!!!111!
That was probably the most paranoid posting I've ever read and I read a lot of Slashdot!
Seriously, did you forget to take your lithium this morning?
So you agree with 90% of what I said (you only quibble over whether to call what they did lying or ... well you don't even propose an alternative).
That makes you 90% of an "hysterical Apple fanboi" then.
The 10% you're missing is obviously the bit with the taste and the cash and the intellect.
The problem is I don't believe it was an honest mistake, so I'd rather they didn't lie in the first place.
All this has taught BoingBoing is that they can lie, get the publicity, then admit they lied and get more publicity. As to evidence: I'd point to the fact that they had no evidence whatsoever to back-up their claim and yet they made it any way. The onus isn't on me.
Is the real story.
/. for lying, and then a second time for admitting they lied.
What disappoints me is that Boing Boing get on the front page of
The real story is Boing Boing is an unreliable site: who'd have thought that on the interwebs there would be dishonest sites *shock* *horror*!
Well I'll give you the US model: rip-off IP like mad while you are developing and then when you have something you want to protect force the world to adopt draconian laws to your benefit.
Don't see how anyone in the US can whine about this when they pioneered that development model.
Doesn't use WiFi, it uses the mobile 'phone network, but you don't have to sign-up and you pay nothing for access. You can browse the web, subscribe to blogs, access wikipedia and it has a built in copy of the US OED. And the battery lasts for days with the 'phone connection turned on and weeks with it turned off.
;)
Oh and you can download and read books on it as well. (Quite a few classics on Amazon are free. As in beer.)
"New Labour" really hates dissent so they like to make sure that there can be no appeal against the decisions they make by, for example, creating or supporting Quangos like the IWF to carry out their dirty work whilst avoiding the responsibility or the statutory over-sight that would be required if HM Government did this officially.
Personally I don't see it stopping until the IWF get sued.
Oh yeah with a Macbook it's much more complicated, here's what you do. You buy the part cheap on eBay or ifixit, you download the service manual for free and spend 20 minutes replacing the part. Or, if you're not savvy, you pay someone to do it for you - and it's relatively cheap.
Better to remain silent and thought a fool than speak and confirm it.
You press and hold the power button.
There's never been a need to remove the battery on a Macbook in order to reset it.
And the only time I've had to was whilst I'd Bootcamped into Windows...
...is with the bleeding heart liberals, like the poster of this story, who have forced schools to escalate matters in a formal manner.
Pre-lunacy the school could and would have dealt with it internally: confiscated the 'phone and caned the disobedient child. But now because of bleeding-heart liberals they can't do that so they are left with the only option of escalation.
No half-way decent school can afford to let one stroppy badly behaved child get away with that kind of behaviour. If you're looking for someone to blame: look at the "me me me" generation brat and her crappy parents.
The on consistent thing about Obama is he is great at doing U-turns. Saw it during his campaign so it's no surprise to see it now.
And, in this particular case, did you really expect anything else after his DoJ appointments?
Obama is in the *IAAs' pockets.
Not only do we taxpayers get to carry on subsidising the world's poor and keeping their leaders in designer shoes, now as customers of the drugs companies, we get to subsidise their medicines as well.
I give to charities, domestic and foreign, because I've decided they are deserving of my money. It is not the job of Government to do so on my behalf.
I think you're wrong.
The kind of people not prepared to pay for a premium 'phone are unlikely to be prepared to pay for apps.
If you haven't worked out how to do that for yourself yet then this isn't the site for you.
They're crafted with a very specific aim in mind: freedom. The LGPL is a compromise. It's just not congruent with your aims, which appear to be far more "stupid and arbitrary" then either the GPL or the LGPL.
I shouldn't be prevented by the State from killing people, like you, that I disagree with. Or annoy me whilst I'm driving. Or take too long paying when I'm in the queue behind them. Or look funny at me. Or if I'm simply having a bad day.
It's about time out-moded Christian morality, that prevents me from torturing people like you for an exptended period of time and then murdering you, stopped influencing our laws.
The real problem is that too many people, and I expect this includes you, are too stupid to get my point.
Personally I think every country should be run as a Meritocracy. Only the higher-rate tax payers, ie people like me, who make a nett contribution to the country should be allowed the vote.
I'd be prepared to consider allowing basic rate tax payers (i.e. the poor) the vote if they had a degree in a useful subject (eg not Social Science nor Drama nor Political Science nor Marketing nor any other non-subject).
Won't happen. For three reasons: 1) to make an example of Psystar. Their infringement cant be seen to have succeeded. 2) They are a two-bit operation which Apple would never want to deal with. 3) Apple is a hardware company. Why would they want to support a competitor?
Actually no they arent. The copies they have purchased are UPGRADES. You only get a full copy when you buy a Mac. There's also the DMCA to consider. I bet Psystar are in for a world of hurt.
Before the iPod you had clunky difficult to use mp3 players with sod all storage that were a pain in the arse to use and an even bigger pain to synch.
Apple fixed all of those problems with the iPod.
The iPod was (and still is) *much*, as in orders of magnitude, better than the competition.
Most of that is marketing
Is just bollocks.
Yep because it was a bunch of really dumb people that developed the atomic bomb and another bunch of really dumb people who dropped it, twice, on two large cities. Dumb people are incapable of doing anything more than local damage. It takes smart people to fuck things up on a large scale.
If you're going to be picky then try and get your facts straight. Mac is short for Macintosh, which is the name of a series of computers made by Apple. Apple is the name of the computer company.
...to be in the same position that Microsoft are today. So I assume the article must be arguing for Apple to keep the iPhone closed? (No I didn't bother rtfa, the summary made it sound crap and this is slashdot).
No the real solution is for the parents to SMACK their ill behaved, stroppy, "you owe me" kids. If you don't like being educated at the tax payer's expense then fuck off and get a job.
Exactly. The letter sent by the Helios guy was just a rant: it had no chance, in fact it didnt even really try, to persuade the teacher.