A worryingly narrow starting point, as it do not allow any re-examination of the concepts within the term "intellectual property". Seems similar to how the mission statement of the Norwegian group tasked with updating the nations copyright law, specifically leaving out any chance of the group to re-examine the reasons behind the laws existence. This is the kind of deification of old thoughts that worries me these days. We are unwilling to go back and have a long hard look at the words of the founders of modern society, and evaluate their continued validity (or lack there of). As such, we are no better then the people that run their lives by a holy text that has stayed unchanged for a millennium or more.
Dunno. There is a company that has already demoed Dalvik (the Android Java VM) running on Maemo/Meego.
Not that i am sure Android could handle the utilitarian screen of a dialpad equipped featurephone (most of the apps would likely not scale down that far).
The Nokia release of Meego is more a version of their earlier Maemo with some changes to be Meego-"compatible" (not that this is any different from Intel basically rebranding their netbook Moblin to Meego and tossing some Qt libs in there for good measure).
I suspect that unless someone at Nokia have gone axe crazy, this "new" one will be based on that again but have a interface and feature set more suitable for low end phones.
"(since when do you need a license to use something you bought?!)"
Since copyright got extended to industrially stamped audio recordings, at least. It is one of those dirty little topics that they do not want to talk about, that what your getting for your money is a time unlimited license to enjoy the recording in the format it is sold to you.
I think he may be referring to using drive imaging to quickly provide preinstalled OSX (pretty much what HP, Dell and the rest do to have preinstalled Windows. And i suspect Foxconn also do so for the computers the produce for Apple).
Had they instead shipped the system with no OS installed, or installed each from the boxed copy they packed alongside (and bought legally from Apple), then Apple may have had a harder time showing breach of copyright.
Anyways, all this will be a moot point now that Apple will primarily sell new versions via the in-OS store. That way you can no longer get a boxed copy, and so need to get the hardware at some point. bye bye hackintosh...
No such requirement. The Chromebooks are built to leverage the HTML5 web storage API so that say something like Gmail or Google Docs is usable offline (tho for the latter that support is so far read only, likely because of issues with tracking concurrent edits and such).
Err, HP seemed the have the same issue as Apple regarding getting a proper presentation of their Touchpad. And i suspect Google may have the same problems getting Chromebooks properly demoed. And i think a whole lot of "older" customers store shop more then web shop, especially if the price tag is more then a couple of dollars/pounds/whatever.
The last one appears to almost never happen. One just end up with a house of cards in the form of quick fixes until the whole system is scrapped and a new one erected (likely because some manager got a nice dinner out of a silver tongued sales rep).
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curiouser and curiouser...
Funny thing is, Adam Curtis makes the claim that it was in part one of The Trap.
http://www.archive.org/details/AdamCurtis_TheTrap
When Apple do it, they where inspired. When anyone else do it, they stole the idea from Apple...
Careful, "Yes Prime Minister" was specifically written to promote the Thacher politics of its time.
If only the NRA and its ilk showed the sensibility of your gunsmith...
A worryingly narrow starting point, as it do not allow any re-examination of the concepts within the term "intellectual property". Seems similar to how the mission statement of the Norwegian group tasked with updating the nations copyright law, specifically leaving out any chance of the group to re-examine the reasons behind the laws existence. This is the kind of deification of old thoughts that worries me these days. We are unwilling to go back and have a long hard look at the words of the founders of modern society, and evaluate their continued validity (or lack there of). As such, we are no better then the people that run their lives by a holy text that has stayed unchanged for a millennium or more.
I made none of those claims.
As for economics being wrong:
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2011/08/04/behavioral-finance-lecture-01-debunking-revealed-preference/
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2011/08/12/behavioral-finance-lecture-01-debunking-demand-and-supply-analysis/
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2011/08/17/behavioral-finance-lecture-03-debunking-capm-and-conventional-behavioral-finance/
Seems i need more coffee, as i do not follow...
And what makes you think they are not employing similar tactics to inflate damage estimates for file sharing cases?
Depends on how one define smartphone.
Their P series of phones started in 2002 with the P800.
much of economic theory is about as disconnected from real life as the bible is...
the tivolization issue...
Dunno. There is a company that has already demoed Dalvik (the Android Java VM) running on Maemo/Meego.
Not that i am sure Android could handle the utilitarian screen of a dialpad equipped featurephone (most of the apps would likely not scale down that far).
Hell, Google even went with a BSD libc to avoid the GPL3 issues of using GNU libc.
The Nokia release of Meego is more a version of their earlier Maemo with some changes to be Meego-"compatible" (not that this is any different from Intel basically rebranding their netbook Moblin to Meego and tossing some Qt libs in there for good measure).
I suspect that unless someone at Nokia have gone axe crazy, this "new" one will be based on that again but have a interface and feature set more suitable for low end phones.
"(since when do you need a license to use something you bought?!)"
Since copyright got extended to industrially stamped audio recordings, at least. It is one of those dirty little topics that they do not want to talk about, that what your getting for your money is a time unlimited license to enjoy the recording in the format it is sold to you.
I think he may be referring to using drive imaging to quickly provide preinstalled OSX (pretty much what HP, Dell and the rest do to have preinstalled Windows. And i suspect Foxconn also do so for the computers the produce for Apple).
Had they instead shipped the system with no OS installed, or installed each from the boxed copy they packed alongside (and bought legally from Apple), then Apple may have had a harder time showing breach of copyright.
Anyways, all this will be a moot point now that Apple will primarily sell new versions via the in-OS store. That way you can no longer get a boxed copy, and so need to get the hardware at some point. bye bye hackintosh...
Well color me surprised, i could have sworn the mobile radio was not optional. That puts things in a whole new light.
There is a mobile radio in there.
No such requirement. The Chromebooks are built to leverage the HTML5 web storage API so that say something like Gmail or Google Docs is usable offline (tho for the latter that support is so far read only, likely because of issues with tracking concurrent edits and such).
Did said ultraportable come with a mobile radio built in?
Sadly those radios have nasty premium nailed too them, dropping them from something can reduce the cost by $100.
Err, HP seemed the have the same issue as Apple regarding getting a proper presentation of their Touchpad. And i suspect Google may have the same problems getting Chromebooks properly demoed. And i think a whole lot of "older" customers store shop more then web shop, especially if the price tag is more then a couple of dollars/pounds/whatever.
A civil war can be generalized to a political disagreement that results in the use of military force.
The last one appears to almost never happen. One just end up with a house of cards in the form of quick fixes until the whole system is scrapped and a new one erected (likely because some manager got a nice dinner out of a silver tongued sales rep).
From the keyboard of Charlie Stross:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/06/how_i_got_here_in_the_end_part_7.html