Six of one, half dozen of the other. Remember Kohlberg's stages of moral development? Not everyone is at the same moral stage. If everyone was at step 5 (Social Contract) or step 6 (Principled Conscience), we wouldn't need to have laws governing IP rights. We wouldn't need laws at all. Now, a commercial enterprise is often composed of multiple individuals. The chances are very low that all of those individuals are at the same moral plane, let alone at the highest. So, we have a legal system that aims first at the lowest level, Obedience and Punishment, which you might think of as being the lowest common denominator.
Further, the OP writes that his personal respect for IP rights is derived from the fact that he is a creator himself, and he wouldn't want to deny to others the livelihood that he himself enjoys. So, if anything, we might guess that the OP is at least at step 5 (Social Contract) and understands the Golden Rule (the do unto others rule, not the one about who owns all the gold).
I've avoided getting into the subject of the moral development of corporations as individual entities as this is beyond the scope of a simple slashdot post. However, even if the management of such an enterprise were all at step 6, they'd still need to govern that enterprise in such a way that takes into account the lowest stage achieved by the other employees, not to mention the moral development of their competitors, if they wanted that enterprise to survive.
FCP was bought from Macromedia when they decided to go "all internet". Macromedia started the project by luring the lead developer of Adobe Premiere away from Adobe with the challange "If you could start completely over, what would you do NOW to make the best video editing software."
The origins of DVDSP (and probably iDVD) is a company called Astarte, from whom Apple bought the tecnology and the development team in 2000. There product was DVDirector. Astarte was the original publisher of Toast, so perhaps that is why you're confused about DVDSP being based on anything from Adaptec.
So, Apple, even why buying into markets, still innovates and puts their DNA in the software that they buy. It becomes an 'Apple' product.
No arguments from me. I was just opposing the OP argument of MS BAD/APPLE GOOD that was based on ignorance of the facts. If one is going to argue MS BAD/APPLE GOOD, then at least use the abundant facts. No need to make shit up and say that Apple doesn't buy companies to enter markets.
Bob Barr would be an interesting choice, not because of his connections to the Christian coalition, but because of his advocacy of civil liberties. In fact, since he's no longer in public office, his kowtowing to the religious right has become minimal.
Why does it always seem that Microsft instead of trully being innovative ( ala apple) they always have to buy themselves into an existing market, then try to bull rush it with thier tremendous capital.
I'm as big an Apple Zealot as any. I drink my koolaid first thing every morning. However, I do prefer a discussion that relies on facts, not misperceptions.
I remember when CDs were $5.99, but they weren't shiny and small, they were bigger and made of black vinyl. We used to call them records, not CDs, but what they have to do with data bases I was never able to fathom.
Forbidding weapons in space is sorta like forbidding criminals from owning/using guns. Without an overwhelming force (*) to dissuade rogue nations from contravening the treaty, it's useless.
Rogue nations? Who's worried about rogue nations? Groups like S.P.E.C.T.R.E. They make Al Kaida look like a bunch of low tech camel jockeys who couldn't pilot a plane into the side of a barn. Er, I mean. . .
I included my adress to them, but no answer. I guess I was ignored. Oh well.
Perhaps you shouldn't have used this paragraph as your introduction:
I REPRESENT MOHAMMED ABACHA, SON OF THE LATE GEN. SANI ABACHA, WHOWAS THE FORMER MILITARY HEAD OF STATE IN NIGERIA. HE DIED IN 1998. SINCEHIS DEATH, THE FAMILY HAS BEEN LOOSING A LOT OF MONEY DUE TO VINDICTIVEGOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
If you want to quickly quit a load of apps or switch application, hit cmd-Tab, and then cycle through the apps with the tab key.
I just wanted to mention that you can quit apps while cycling through them by hitting the "Q" key as you're cmd-tabbing through them. I have a feeling to meant to say this, but you omitted this detail.
Interesting. Since a number of the search criteria are mutually exclusive (if I have selected F-stop as my first criteria, I am unlikely to want to select key signature=F# in the same search) - how does the UI handle this?
You get the equivalent of a 404 as a result. Seriously, have you never used a search engine and had a zero results returned?
Do I always have all choices available as I navigate through search choices, or do earlier choices reduce the later options?
Auto-limiting your search in the way that you describe does not take into consideration file types that use the criteria in ways that you have not foreseen. Why couldn't a file contain metadata as you describe? How is it really mutually exclusive? Sure, your example seems absurd, but it's not really. Imagine a video with a music soundtrack.
I winder if CDROM drives and HDD can benefit from multiple lasers which themselves use a scanner like hexagonal reflector to rapidly scan 5/6 tracks of the cd, and you have about 100 lasers reading, then you can cut down wait time like this?
I'm trying to picture such a device, and I can't get past the question of whether you're mounting multiple lasers on a single shark, or are using multiple sharks.
Microsoft settles with Novell. Result: We don't know yet, but I'm expecting something ugly. Maybe some bizarre legal cross-licensing to prevent non-commercial software from existing?
Thanks! Now if I could get some help untwisting my knickers. ..
But seriously, I take your point. I just thought your comparing unethical acts with war crimes was too extreme. It sounds like the sort of hyperbole that certain tort reformers make. You know, the ones who want to reform the medical system by making it harder to hold HMOs responsible for bad acts.
Darl ties Richard Stallman (wearing a dress and a wig with long blonde braids) to a train track, but Linus Torvalds (wearing the uniform of the Royal Finnish Mounted Police), arrives and frees Stallman just in the nick of time. They race back to town in time to stop Darl from presenting the ill gotten "Deed to Linux" to the town judge.
I'm not sure that the distinction is important to you, but a letter of intent is not the same as a signed contract. The contract was just signed. The previous story was about the letter of intent.
What have they got to lose? They were dead meat before the litigation. There is no need for them to set aside a prudent reserve, because the company has no future.
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Six of one, half dozen of the other. Remember Kohlberg's stages of moral development? Not everyone is at the same moral stage. If everyone was at step 5 (Social Contract) or step 6 (Principled Conscience), we wouldn't need to have laws governing IP rights. We wouldn't need laws at all. Now, a commercial enterprise is often composed of multiple individuals. The chances are very low that all of those individuals are at the same moral plane, let alone at the highest. So, we have a legal system that aims first at the lowest level, Obedience and Punishment, which you might think of as being the lowest common denominator.
Further, the OP writes that his personal respect for IP rights is derived from the fact that he is a creator himself, and he wouldn't want to deny to others the livelihood that he himself enjoys. So, if anything, we might guess that the OP is at least at step 5 (Social Contract) and understands the Golden Rule (the do unto others rule, not the one about who owns all the gold).
I've avoided getting into the subject of the moral development of corporations as individual entities as this is beyond the scope of a simple slashdot post. However, even if the management of such an enterprise were all at step 6, they'd still need to govern that enterprise in such a way that takes into account the lowest stage achieved by the other employees, not to mention the moral development of their competitors, if they wanted that enterprise to survive.
then you're a slut, not a whore. =)
FCP was bought from Macromedia when they decided to go "all internet". Macromedia started the project by luring the lead developer of Adobe Premiere away from Adobe with the challange "If you could start completely over, what would you do NOW to make the best video editing software."
The origins of DVDSP (and probably iDVD) is a company called Astarte, from whom Apple bought the tecnology and the development team in 2000. There product was DVDirector. Astarte was the original publisher of Toast, so perhaps that is why you're confused about DVDSP being based on anything from Adaptec.
So, Apple, even why buying into markets, still innovates and puts their DNA in the software that they buy. It becomes an 'Apple' product.
No arguments from me. I was just opposing the OP argument of MS BAD/APPLE GOOD that was based on ignorance of the facts. If one is going to argue MS BAD/APPLE GOOD, then at least use the abundant facts. No need to make shit up and say that Apple doesn't buy companies to enter markets.
Yeah, Rogan also did a smashing job at the USPTO.
Bob Barr would be an interesting choice, not because of his connections to the Christian coalition, but because of his advocacy of civil liberties. In fact, since he's no longer in public office, his kowtowing to the religious right has become minimal.
But you're right. nagana happen.
Rei + Wesson cooking oil + John Ashcroft = HOT!
Let me know when the pay-per-view is happening. =)
Why does it always seem that Microsft instead of trully being innovative ( ala apple) they always have to buy themselves into an existing market, then try to bull rush it with thier tremendous capital.
Apple has never bought its way into an existing markets ? (I'm sure there are other examples.)
I'm as big an Apple Zealot as any. I drink my koolaid first thing every morning. However, I do prefer a discussion that relies on facts, not misperceptions.
I remember when CDs were $5.99, but they weren't shiny and small, they were bigger and made of black vinyl. We used to call them records, not CDs, but what they have to do with data bases I was never able to fathom.
Crap. fucked up the link.
so much for my political humor.
Maybe you should move to a country that is moving towards a completely free market globalized economy.
The good news is that there are rumors that Ashcroft will get the sack.
The bad news is Rudy G. aka Skeletor.
Hold your horses, man! They still haven't figured out how to get sharks into space.
Forbidding weapons in space is sorta like forbidding criminals from owning/using guns. Without an overwhelming force (*) to dissuade rogue nations from contravening the treaty, it's useless.
Rogue nations? Who's worried about rogue nations? Groups like S.P.E.C.T.R.E. They make Al Kaida look like a bunch of low tech camel jockeys who couldn't pilot a plane into the side of a barn. Er, I mean. . .
Perhaps you shouldn't have used this paragraph as your introduction:
=)
If you want to quickly quit a load of apps or switch application, hit cmd-Tab, and then cycle through the apps with the tab key.
I just wanted to mention that you can quit apps while cycling through them by hitting the "Q" key as you're cmd-tabbing through them. I have a feeling to meant to say this, but you omitted this detail.
You don't read Apple press releases until you've had your morning koolaid, er, coffee? =)
Interesting. Since a number of the search criteria are mutually exclusive (if I have selected F-stop as my first criteria, I am unlikely to want to select key signature=F# in the same search) - how does the UI handle this?
You get the equivalent of a 404 as a result. Seriously, have you never used a search engine and had a zero results returned?
Do I always have all choices available as I navigate through search choices, or do earlier choices reduce the later options?
Auto-limiting your search in the way that you describe does not take into consideration file types that use the criteria in ways that you have not foreseen. Why couldn't a file contain metadata as you describe? How is it really mutually exclusive? Sure, your example seems absurd, but it's not really. Imagine a video with a music soundtrack.
I winder if CDROM drives and HDD can benefit from multiple lasers which themselves use a scanner like hexagonal reflector to rapidly scan 5/6 tracks of the cd, and you have about 100 lasers reading, then you can cut down wait time like this?
I'm trying to picture such a device, and I can't get past the question of whether you're mounting multiple lasers on a single shark, or are using multiple sharks.
Microsoft settles with Novell. Result: We don't know yet, but I'm expecting something ugly. Maybe some bizarre legal cross-licensing to prevent non-commercial software from existing?
And let's not forget the recent resignation of Chris Stone from Novell. Maybe it's just a coincidence.
Now before you get your panties in a bunch
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Thanks! Now if I could get some help untwisting my knickers. .
But seriously, I take your point. I just thought your comparing unethical acts with war crimes was too extreme. It sounds like the sort of hyperbole that certain tort reformers make. You know, the ones who want to reform the medical system by making it harder to hold HMOs responsible for bad acts.
"I thought there was a bug in the program, but it turned out to be a weevil infestation of the install disc.
And Uranus is shitting itself.
Because of the Penis-Uranus conjunction?
Damn, there goes my karma.
Spoilers!!
Darl ties Richard Stallman (wearing a dress and a wig with long blonde braids) to a train track, but Linus Torvalds (wearing the uniform of the Royal Finnish Mounted Police), arrives and frees Stallman just in the nick of time. They race back to town in time to stop Darl from presenting the ill gotten "Deed to Linux" to the town judge.
I'm not sure that the distinction is important to you, but a letter of intent is not the same as a signed contract. The contract was just signed. The previous story was about the letter of intent.
What have they got to lose? They were dead meat before the litigation. There is no need for them to set aside a prudent reserve, because the company has no future.
Mind you, American's have changed a great many words like Realise to Realize for the sake of correct pronunciation.
Could you give us some more divers examples.