Yes, Apple has done that. I remember they copied a few years ago the (justly?) so-called "single good Windows-feature": the function to switch task by pressing cmd+tab (crl + tab on Windows?).
This feature was kind of half-done on Mac OS 9, but of course looks and works great on OS X.
I sincerely hope you never have to worry about your family in an attack like this.
I do not agree with grandparent, but I would like to add that I also hope none of us ever has to worry about their family in an attack like America's attack on Iraq. The slaughtered Iraquis didn't deserve being killed.
That's right. During the Crusades, Constantinople was even plundered a few times by the European Knights. I've heard, this also led to a further decline of Constantinople's power and therefore to its fall.
So, if I change a star's position or destroy it, this might change my future? Interesting! I might just decide blow up a planet or two, next time my horoscope tells me about Saturn's bad influence on my health or something like that...
Windows Media Player. Although supposedly on the eastern side of the Atlantic, Microsoft has been ordered to remove it
But of course, MS hasn't done that. And I think the EU's ruling is not because of WMP's DVD-playing ability but because of the video-playing ability (I think Real complained about that).
The development team of the Sims Online game, for example, was 40% female, while 60% of its players are female.
I fail to see the logic in this statement. 80% of all actors in the porn industry are female, while 90% of its users are male. Still I don't demand more males in the porn industry.
Thank you for this interesting offer. It sounds like a very good service. Unfortunately, you forgot to include your address, so I don't know where I can send my data and the money.
Plus you don't really play stuff form the store, you buy it then play it locally from a directory.
I do frequently use their "preview" which is IMHO one of the best features. I use it as a kind of reference-database.
But then, maybe these clips are also first downloaded then played from the cache...
Show where a natural born American citizen who has not been engaged in terrorism or linked to it has been sent to Guantanamo.
Don't you think this should be a court's task, to determine whether somebody is or is not linked to terrorism and what the punishment should be?
Is it right that an army officer who doesn't even speak the other person's language decides on somebody else's future by saying: "I believe he is connected in terrorism, let's send him to Guantanamo." I know officers. I wouldn't let them decide on anything but the color of their cars.
I believe a fair trial is every person's right, American or not. "The land of the free"... because everybody else is granted no freedom?
Actually, we always have our rights. Violence infringes our rights, it does not cause them not to exist.
You want to say: "Don't worry, in theory you still have you rights." That probably doesn't help those people who spend years in prison in the US and other places who have no possibility to go to court.
If the government is so sure the prisoners in Guantanamo are terrorists, why aren't they brought to trial?
Doesn't the American government trust the American legal system? How is it possible the executive branch can do that? What happened to the
separation of powers?
This post is going to cost a lot of Karma, I know...
No, but they {amateurs} do spark innovation. Is every car being sold painted black?
Yes, amateurs ARE important. But when they start posing a threat for the heavyweights, they try to crush them. And they usually succeed. Software patents is just another weapon for them.
I'll give an example: Have you heard of the Tucker, a car way ahead of its time?
From the website The Tucker Club: Preston Tucker was a car-crazy kid who hung around auto speedways and grew up to create an automobile--the Tucker--that was years ahead of its time.... It was streamlined, futuristic and fast--the car every American dreamed of owning, at a price most people could afford. A man of endless enthusiasm, Tucker publicized his model all over the country to wild acclaim. He sold stock, set up a factory . . . and then the auto industry launched a devastating anti-Tucker campaign.
Maybe I'm feeding the trolls, but I'll try to answer to some of your arguments... it's the software business that is calling for software patents to be granted in the EU
It's mostly the BIG software companies that love patents. Smaller ones or even hobby programmers can't afford patenting their software. So software patents lead to more monopolization.
the US already has software patents and it has the biggest software business in the world
I'm not sure if that's true, but the US also has the biggest economy, so this is not surprising. BTW, bigger companies are more likely to send outsource and offshore their develpment departments to countries like India or China. So software patents play a role in deminishing the American software industry.
there's amature radio enthusiests. There's amature car enthusiests. There's amature plane enthusiests. Have you seen these amateurs selling their stuff in large numbers? Boeing, GM and the like would get really angry. They would sue you to bancruptcy. Then for this type of industry you need to invest a lot of money anyway for plants, raw materials and the like. Software, on the other hand, can, once developed, be reproduced for free. So this is an area where small companies should be able to compete with much bigger ones (and they do).
Yes, we won't have the 3.6 million bullshit little software companies that we have now, but hey, that's a small price to pay for maturing an industry into something actually reliable.
Yeah, like the biggest software company produces the most reliable programs...
I haven't done b/w photography in years, but I remember there were other brands than Kodak. There still must be.
So if something like this happens, a big player quits because he's not interested in the market anymore, a smaller one quickly steps in.
Don't worry, b/w-photography guys.
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but has Apple never copied Microsoft?
Yes, Apple has done that. I remember they copied a few years ago the (justly?) so-called "single good Windows-feature": the function to switch task by pressing cmd+tab (crl + tab on Windows?).
This feature was kind of half-done on Mac OS 9, but of course looks and works great on OS X.
I sincerely hope you never have to worry about your family in an attack like this.
I do not agree with grandparent, but I would like to add that I also hope none of us ever has to worry about their family in an attack like America's attack on Iraq.
The slaughtered Iraquis didn't deserve being killed.
Oh wait, I am Luke.
Uh... my prompt... Luke, I am your father.
It changed the future for those antimatter alien lifeforms that lived on the comet.
Did you feel it, too? As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...
That's right. During the Crusades, Constantinople was even plundered a few times by the European Knights. I've heard, this also led to a further decline of Constantinople's power and therefore to its fall.
Astrology claims to be predictive of the future.
So, if I change a star's position or destroy it, this might change my future?
Interesting! I might just decide blow up a planet or two, next time my horoscope tells me about Saturn's bad influence on my health or something like that...
I don't remember the last time microsoft showed ANY innovation of its own. anyone?
Clippy?
RE4 doesn't really count much, because of the copious use of preendered backgrounds.
No. It's completely 3D.
And it looks amazing. Better than anything I've seen on any other console.
I enjoy playing Nintendo games the most because I think they are the most fun to play while there is almost no blood.
I enjoy playing Resident Evil 4 on my Gamecube.
so WMP doenst have dvd playing ability
Well, as I said, I don't use that OS. I use only Mac OS X (job and at home).
Windows Media Player. Although supposedly on the eastern side of the Atlantic, Microsoft has been ordered to remove it
But of course, MS hasn't done that. And I think the EU's ruling is not because of WMP's DVD-playing ability but because of the video-playing ability (I think Real complained about that).
You still need DVD windows software, which costs another $40.
Or you get VLC (www.videolan.org). Or a player program comes with the OS (I use Mac OS X, there is a player included -- don't know about Windows).
The development team of the Sims Online game, for example, was 40% female, while 60% of its players are female.
I fail to see the logic in this statement.
80% of all actors in the porn industry are female, while 90% of its users are male.
Still I don't demand more males in the porn industry.
Thank you for this interesting offer. It sounds like a very good service.
Unfortunately, you forgot to include your address, so I don't know where I can send my data and the money.
Plus you don't really play stuff form the store, you buy it then play it locally from a directory.
I do frequently use their "preview" which is IMHO one of the best features.
I use it as a kind of reference-database.
But then, maybe these clips are also first downloaded then played from the cache...
Furthermore the bit about playing music in certain categories is very unlike playlists.
But a lot like the iTunes Music Store.
Show where a natural born American citizen who has not been engaged in terrorism or linked to it has been sent to Guantanamo.
Don't you think this should be a court's task, to determine whether somebody is or is not linked to terrorism and what the punishment should be?
Is it right that an army officer who doesn't even speak the other person's language decides on somebody else's future by saying: "I believe he is connected in terrorism, let's send him to Guantanamo." I know officers. I wouldn't let them decide on anything but the color of their cars.
I believe a fair trial is every person's right, American or not.
"The land of the free"... because everybody else is granted no freedom?
Actually, we always have our rights. Violence infringes our rights, it does not cause them not to exist.
You want to say: "Don't worry, in theory you still have you rights."
That probably doesn't help those people who spend years in prison in the US and other places who have no possibility to go to court.
If the government is so sure the prisoners in Guantanamo are terrorists, why aren't they brought to trial?
Doesn't the American government trust the American legal system? How is it possible the executive branch can do that? What happened to the separation of powers?
This post is going to cost a lot of Karma, I know...
No, but they {amateurs} do spark innovation. Is every car being sold painted black?
Yes, amateurs ARE important. But when they start posing a threat for the heavyweights, they try to crush them.
And they usually succeed. Software patents is just another weapon for them.
I'll give an example: Have you heard of the Tucker, a car way ahead of its time?
From the website The Tucker Club: Preston Tucker was a car-crazy kid who hung around auto speedways and grew up to create an automobile--the Tucker--that was years ahead of its time.
No protests in Ho-Chi-Minh-City yet about America's human rights record ?
Maybe I'm feeding the trolls, but I'll try to answer to some of your arguments...
it's the software business that is calling for software patents to be granted in the EU
It's mostly the BIG software companies that love patents. Smaller ones or even hobby programmers can't afford patenting their software.
So software patents lead to more monopolization.
the US already has software patents and it has the biggest software business in the world
I'm not sure if that's true, but the US also has the biggest economy, so this is not surprising. BTW, bigger companies are more likely to send outsource and offshore their develpment departments to countries like India or China. So software patents play a role in deminishing the American software industry.
there's amature radio enthusiests. There's amature car enthusiests. There's amature plane enthusiests.
Have you seen these amateurs selling their stuff in large numbers? Boeing, GM and the like would get really angry. They would sue you to bancruptcy.
Then for this type of industry you need to invest a lot of money anyway for plants, raw materials and the like.
Software, on the other hand, can, once developed, be reproduced for free. So this is an area where small companies should be able to compete with much bigger ones (and they do).
Yes, we won't have the 3.6 million bullshit little software companies that we have now, but hey, that's a small price to pay for maturing an industry into something actually reliable.
Yeah, like the biggest software company produces the most reliable programs...
I haven't done b/w photography in years, but I remember there were other brands than Kodak. There still must be.
So if something like this happens, a big player quits because he's not interested in the market anymore, a smaller one quickly steps in.
Don't worry, b/w-photography guys.
Free as in beer no doubt.
More like in: Buy a sixpack of beer (Tiger), get one tanker full of wine free.
Although why woudl they want anything to do with the UK? Isnt it the USA thats their bete noir?
Maybe they're after James Bond...
Know why Macs could read PC disks but not vice versa? Easy. Apple's HFS filesystem was copyrighted
FAT is copyrighted as well (if only recently). But don't worry, MS offers some great deals for licensing it