This doesn't seem like the most efficient distribution mechanism
That's because its not a distribution method, its a free press generation mechanism. And its working even beyond Apple's and His Holiness' wildest dreams.
I actually went and RTFA, and as usual BSA (Bullshit Statistics Alliance) never states just how they get those figures. I'm surprised these people don't run for office, they'd fit right in.
I hope they succeed at making news by merging, because they sure as hell can't report it. Using the words "journalism" and "CNN" in the same sentence has got to be the oxymoron of the year. And CBS isn't that much better any more.
Another good example is the bonuses for keeping labor costs down at many stores and restaurants. If the manager keeps labor costs under a certain figure, he gets a bonus, even if the business ends up understaffed. This is why most businesses, especially chain restaurants, seem to be perpetually understaffed.
'We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.'
'We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces functionality that we do not think you need, we do not want you to have, and hinders our ability to make money off of you in our official app store.'
You of course have the right to determine whether or not you wear a seat belt in your own car or in another car you are riding in. But you have no right to determine whether or not I wear a seat belt in my own car (and I don't and won't). If you would like to start making my car payments and insurance payments, I'll be more than happy to let you make seat belt decisions for me.
Instead of threatening the dude for writing the Greasemonkey script, they should maybe be thinking about why people want to use this script in the first place. If a major portion of your website users find part of your site to be that effing annoying, then fixing that portion of your website to be less annoying is a more important issue than the existence of a Greasemonkey script. Facebook needs to go shopping at the Clue Factory Outlet.
I also agree with others in this thread who have pointed out the Streisand Effect. I never heard of the script, but you can bet your donkey that I'll be installing it as soon as I get done typing this reply. I like Facebook and all, but a lot of that crap has to go.
if everyone is so afraid of their computer memory being used to the fullest, why do these people install so much of it?
I've got 8GB of ram in the machine I'm on at the moment, and I want the OS and applications to use it to the fullest and most efficient extent possible at all times. I didn't install a 64-bit OS and 8GB of ram so that I can see 6GB free at all times.
For what its worth, I've had the same thing happen on my own domain. As recently as 6 months ago I was averaging about 1500 spams a month, and now its down to maybe 200 a month. I'm certainly not complaining, but I'd love to know why it dropped.
Whether Nintendo is right or wrong, all of the heartbreak could have been prevented in advance of all that work if the makers of the movie had done one simple thing first...ask permission. Of course, I'm also smart enough to know why they didn't do that...they knew they probably wouldn't get it.
"Rebel EFI will not be expressly excluded from the terms of the injunction. It should be clear, however, that this ruling is without prejudice to Psystar bringing a new motion before the undersigned that includes real details about Rebel EFI, and opening itself up to formal discovery thereon. This would serve the purpose--akin to a post-injunction motion vetting a 'design-around' in a patent action--of potentially vetting (or not vetting) a product like Rebel EFI under this order's decree.
"Moreover, Psystar may raise in such a motion any defenses it believes should apply to the factual circumstances of its new product, such as the 17 U.S.C. 117 defense raised in its opposition and at oral argument. Whether such a defense would be successful on the merits, or face preclusion or other hurdles, this order cannot predict. What is certain, however, is that until such a motion is brought, Psystar will be selling Rebel EFI at its peril, and risks finding itself held in contempt if its new venture falls within the scope of the injunction."
So the judge already has Psystar in the crosshairs if it continues to sell Rebel_EFI as it currently stands.
What makes this one "different" is that the organization who owns the equipment is a government entity, not a private business.
If this were a case involving John's Private Company Inc, there would be no case here...everyone up to and including SCOTUS has ruled "he who owns the equipment or account makes the rules and can look at their use and content freely".
But to my knowledge they've never before ruled on how/if that applies to divisions of government.
Not in the least. Microsoft did not tell you that you cannot use your modded Xbox, nor did they do anything to it that prevents you from using it. All they did was said you can't use it on servers that they own. And there are rulings all the way up to SCOTUS that says he who owns the servers controls who is allowed to use them.
No, Bush wasn't right. He used the US Constitution as toilet paper, and Cheney was worse.
But anyone who thought Obama was going to revoke anything Bush had done was only kidding themselves. Its always easier to just keep a bad power that your predecessor gained for the office...Obama figures the Bush administration already absorbed the damage and the heat, so why should he get rid of a nifty new super power?
Once we started down this slippery slope, there's no way to go back up.
...I say I don't give a flying fuck. I paid for legitimate disks of both Leopard and Snow Leopard. I've even still got the receipts for them. They've got my money. If I want to use the DVDs in my toaster I will, and His Holiness Steve Jobs & Company can make like a squirrel and hug my nuts.
Normally, I don't respond to people who have to hide behind being anonymous, but in this case I'll make an exception.
Actually, my tiel is fully flighted (no clipped feathers) and has the run of half the house or more. And while I'm sure you're going to give me some half-assed uninformed PETA sponsored song and dance about how they live better in the wild, I'll merely point out that cockatiels well cared for in captivity live *FAR* longer than they do in the wild.
I find it interesting that these stories never seem to talk about the cost of retraining in that switch from Windows to Linux in the work place. The authors must be those same people that keep writing about how software companies should replace boxed product with downloading because bandwidth is free.
I'm not saying that many companies wouldn't benefit financially from the switch. Many would. But there are a lot that wouldn't. Anyone who thinks the Microsoft license and the cost of the hardware are the only expenses has no business being a decision-maker in their company's IT.
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This doesn't seem like the most efficient distribution mechanism
That's because its not a distribution method, its a free press generation mechanism. And its working even beyond Apple's and His Holiness' wildest dreams.
I actually went and RTFA, and as usual BSA (Bullshit Statistics Alliance) never states just how they get those figures. I'm surprised these people don't run for office, they'd fit right in.
I hope they succeed at making news by merging, because they sure as hell can't report it. Using the words "journalism" and "CNN" in the same sentence has got to be the oxymoron of the year. And CBS isn't that much better any more.
Another good example is the bonuses for keeping labor costs down at many stores and restaurants. If the manager keeps labor costs under a certain figure, he gets a bonus, even if the business ends up understaffed. This is why most businesses, especially chain restaurants, seem to be perpetually understaffed.
I was going to ask the same thing...how is he limited to 5? I have 20-something machines, all running free, on one account.
>>Have you ever tried to edit AVCHD in Premiere?
Actually I do it almost daily and don't have a problem.
'We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.'
'We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces functionality that we do not think you need, we do not want you to have, and hinders our ability to make money off of you in our official app store.'
There, fixed it for you.
Look at the bright side. At least Slashdot is not posting stories about Tiger Woods and Sandra Bullock.
You of course have the right to determine whether or not you wear a seat belt in your own car or in another car you are riding in. But you have no right to determine whether or not I wear a seat belt in my own car (and I don't and won't). If you would like to start making my car payments and insurance payments, I'll be more than happy to let you make seat belt decisions for me.
Instead of threatening the dude for writing the Greasemonkey script, they should maybe be thinking about why people want to use this script in the first place. If a major portion of your website users find part of your site to be that effing annoying, then fixing that portion of your website to be less annoying is a more important issue than the existence of a Greasemonkey script. Facebook needs to go shopping at the Clue Factory Outlet.
I also agree with others in this thread who have pointed out the Streisand Effect. I never heard of the script, but you can bet your donkey that I'll be installing it as soon as I get done typing this reply. I like Facebook and all, but a lot of that crap has to go.
if everyone is so afraid of their computer memory being used to the fullest, why do these people install so much of it?
I've got 8GB of ram in the machine I'm on at the moment, and I want the OS and applications to use it to the fullest and most efficient extent possible at all times. I didn't install a 64-bit OS and 8GB of ram so that I can see 6GB free at all times.
Maybe I'm not home, and maybe I have announced that on twitter. But my pit bull is always home and he doesn't use twitter.
For what its worth, I've had the same thing happen on my own domain. As recently as 6 months ago I was averaging about 1500 spams a month, and now its down to maybe 200 a month. I'm certainly not complaining, but I'd love to know why it dropped.
The fact that none of the current living "heirs" is a direct descendant of the author is further proof of how screwed up our system is.
But I can understand why they fight so hard. If they didn't have Holmes, they'd have to all get real jobs and work for a living.
Whether Nintendo is right or wrong, all of the heartbreak could have been prevented in advance of all that work if the makers of the movie had done one simple thing first...ask permission. Of course, I'm also smart enough to know why they didn't do that...they knew they probably wouldn't get it.
From the ruling:
"Rebel EFI will not be expressly excluded from the terms of the injunction. It should be clear, however, that this ruling is without prejudice to Psystar bringing a new motion before the undersigned that includes real details about Rebel EFI, and opening itself up to formal discovery thereon. This would serve the purpose--akin to a post-injunction motion vetting a 'design-around' in a patent action--of potentially vetting (or not vetting) a product like Rebel EFI under this order's decree.
"Moreover, Psystar may raise in such a motion any defenses it believes should apply to the factual circumstances of its new product, such as the 17 U.S.C. 117 defense raised in its opposition and at oral argument. Whether such a defense would be successful on the merits, or face preclusion or other hurdles, this order cannot predict. What is certain, however, is that until such a motion is brought, Psystar will be selling Rebel EFI at its peril, and risks finding itself held in contempt if its new venture falls within the scope of the injunction."
So the judge already has Psystar in the crosshairs if it continues to sell Rebel_EFI as it currently stands.
What makes this one "different" is that the organization who owns the equipment is a government entity, not a private business.
If this were a case involving John's Private Company Inc, there would be no case here...everyone up to and including SCOTUS has ruled "he who owns the equipment or account makes the rules and can look at their use and content freely".
But to my knowledge they've never before ruled on how/if that applies to divisions of government.
Should Microsoft worry?
Not in the least. Microsoft did not tell you that you cannot use your modded Xbox, nor did they do anything to it that prevents you from using it. All they did was said you can't use it on servers that they own. And there are rulings all the way up to SCOTUS that says he who owns the servers controls who is allowed to use them.
No, Bush wasn't right. He used the US Constitution as toilet paper, and Cheney was worse.
But anyone who thought Obama was going to revoke anything Bush had done was only kidding themselves. Its always easier to just keep a bad power that your predecessor gained for the office...Obama figures the Bush administration already absorbed the damage and the heat, so why should he get rid of a nifty new super power?
Once we started down this slippery slope, there's no way to go back up.
...I say I don't give a flying fuck. I paid for legitimate disks of both Leopard and Snow Leopard. I've even still got the receipts for them. They've got my money. If I want to use the DVDs in my toaster I will, and His Holiness Steve Jobs & Company can make like a squirrel and hug my nuts.
Yeah. They should add it to the hundreds of billions already spent on killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Funny how we can always find hundreds of billions for war, but nothing for science.
You left out The Evil One, known as Darth Gates.
Normally, I don't respond to people who have to hide behind being anonymous, but in this case I'll make an exception.
Actually, my tiel is fully flighted (no clipped feathers) and has the run of half the house or more. And while I'm sure you're going to give me some half-assed uninformed PETA sponsored song and dance about how they live better in the wild, I'll merely point out that cockatiels well cared for in captivity live *FAR* longer than they do in the wild.
My suggestion is they can fuck off. I care more about my dogs (and cats, cockatiel, and tank of fish) than I do the rest of humanity.
And no, this isn't sarcasm.
I find it interesting that these stories never seem to talk about the cost of retraining in that switch from Windows to Linux in the work place. The authors must be those same people that keep writing about how software companies should replace boxed product with downloading because bandwidth is free.
I'm not saying that many companies wouldn't benefit financially from the switch. Many would. But there are a lot that wouldn't. Anyone who thinks the Microsoft license and the cost of the hardware are the only expenses has no business being a decision-maker in their company's IT.