If Pystar can win on OSX, the same argument could, in principle, be made for other operating systems.
Correct. One could simply pay the market price for an operating system or other software, and use it in any manner one wants without regard for terms of the associated license.
One could, for example, use a GNU/Linux operating system as the basis for a set-top box, and ignore the terms of the GPL license as irrelevant, as they have already paid the going rate for the software.
When your pretty graph goes back "millions" of years, then you might have a point, but 400k out of 3.5 billion years, this is about as useful as grabbing a handful of random people from a barney the dinosaur concert and using them to stereotype the other 6.5 billion people on the planet.
Oh, snap! That's your problem right there. That graph just goes back too diddly-darn far. Why, the earth is only 6,000 years old. All this talk of millions or billions of years is just crazy talk.
You're not going to get anywhere with your fact-based agendas.
Screenshots are all raster data. Bitmaps. Pixels. And yes, raster data can be embedded in PDF files.
Rasterization of each app's vector drawing operations occurs primarily within the application. through the app's Quartz drawing context. (OpenGL may be used there, so if someone wants to get really pedantic, the actual generation of pixels might be happening in the GL driver and GPU.)
This is getting pretty far off topic. (Welcome to/.)
NeXTSTEP 4.0 Alpha; sometimes mis-called Beta on web sites.
The software featured tabs across the screen bottom for various window types. (We cribbed these for Mac OS 8.5 after the merger, as the tabbed window feature.) The Documents tab was a window which presented icons of documents, each of which could be a preview of the actual document, badged to indicate the associated application.
This implementation nicely meets all the claims, but predates the patent application by 5 years. I won't bother going through all the details, but Cygnus is boned. Software patent litigation as a business model is so last decade...
Hmmm... I wonder who would have the most to gain by undermining Apple
No, no. The ultimate target isn't Apple. The ultimate target is anyone who tries to apply restrictions on their software via copyright and license.
It's all about legal acquisition without obligations. For example, Evil, Inc might want to acquire software that happens to fall under this license: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html It might be neat to take all that stuff, tweak it to run a settop box/game system/file server/toaster and not have to worry about those pesky restrictions like making source code available.
Not that anyone would actually do something like that...
Apple has failed to deliver a fully compostable computer built solely with clean straw and dung from goats on a macrobiotic diet. This is particularly disappointing when one realizes that other companies have been delivering dung-based computing technology for years.
This is all part of DisplayPort, the display connection. Like HDMI, the digital display connection for HDTV gear, DisplayPort includes an end-to-end encryption mechanism. (Take a look at HDMI/HDCP.)
The end-to-end secure data path is something the HD content providers insist on.
In which your character must decide whether or not to take a bath, with or without the aid of servants!
Ah, truly thrilling gameplay at it's very best. The quest to find double-walled pails with lids; the confrontations with kitchen staff; and certainly not least, the challenge of racing from the kitchens to the bath before the water cools, while minimizing delays from Guardsmen checking to make sure there were no knives hidden in the water.
Does this mean that someday soon, I may see speeds in excess of 768K/384K [1] to my very own home? You know, what AT&T calls "High Speed Internet?" Oh, frabjous joy!
1. Actual speeds based on DSL synch rate, may vary, and are not guaranteed. Many factors affect speed. Service and speed not available in all areas.
What you really want to ask is why someone, just because they hold the copyright on some software, can dictate terms of use to someone else, or pursue legal action against someone who has obtained the software but is now using it in a manner not granted by license.
Suppose the DHS decides it wants a permanent archive of who was where, when?
Well, they'll just have to buy the data from the state DMV like everyone else.
For audit purposes the DMV or equivalent agency computers in most states log queries. Queries may include information from the querying system.
In the case of license plate recognition systems, a private agency such as AutoVu http://www.autovu.com/index.cfm?&lang=EN_CA may be involved as well, and will likely have more detailed records. While not public records, I suspect that for a modest gratuity an underpaid employee could be found who wouldn't mind printing out a bit of the database.
I think it's interesting that companies I can find doing the monitoring gruntwork, AutoVu and Declan NET, are Canadian. Canada has "The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" (PIPEDA) to protect Canadians from this sort of information collection. Perhaps it doesn't cover data processing originating and destined for foreign lands?
So. the Free Software Foundation is now the official sponsor of DOS prankings and such asshattery? Way to go, guys. Tie up a nice service that Apple provides to its customers with a stream of bozos all asking the same questions, all outside the scope of knowledge of the help desk people you are pestering.
You have surely found an inspired way to win friends and influence people. For a followup, you can spam all/. accounts with messages asking for contributions.
Be sure to let us know how the NHTSA tests go for this vehicle.
If the vehicle needs to be modified to pass the tests, what sort of milage do you expect to see? I suspect it would wind up with an EPA rating around 60 MPG.
Greetings, Oh Anonymous Coward. I know you. You were an embarrassment to the manager that hired you. That stunt you pulled where you collected pay for months without showing up, while nobody could find you, was terrible. You finally stayed away long enough for job abandonment to be applied, fortunately.
While Apple has paid lower salaries, what Apple HR refers to as 'competitive', a weighted range below the industry mid-point, they also gave out stock options. An engineer at Apple who had amassed options with exercise in the low teens or better per share might find themselves pretty well off on paper with the stock price now at $181/share. The last of these nice options vest over this year.
Other benefits such as medical are also 'competitive', or poor to mediocre. Things that you might have read about, such as the old sabbatical program, are long gone.
This now turns into an entirely different problem for Apple, as the senior technical people discover that they can exercise those options, and even after covering the taxes can invest the proceeds in a fairly conservative manner and easily replace their salary. The ability to pop on that T-shirt saying "F#@k You I Am Fully Vested" does wonders for one's BS tolerance level. Some folks might not tolerate being put on maintenance duty, code cleanup ("Please alter the tabs and indentation of the following 310 source code files") , or being given a series of problem reports that 'Function F() is 1.1% slower in Leopard than in Tiger. Fix as your top priority item and send Bertrand daily status!" (This gets old after a few hundred repetitions.)
It remains to be seen as to how much of Apple's more experienced workforce might depart in the near future, and what impact this will have on the business and those who remain behind.
There's always more room for improvement. One could, for example, impose a beneficial energy pattern by the proper attachment of P.W.B. Electret Ring Ties so as to establish a full Stage Five dominant energy pattern within 'space geometry'. One must take great care to apply the same pattern to electrical power interconnects as well as the audio interconnects. A P.W.B Morphic Message Foil can be applied to the Ethernet cable and the listener's forehead to ensure proper synchronization of digital cognisance.
What career prospects are there? What can a "superstar" programmer expect to be doing in 10 years at your company?
Maintenance programming for all the stuff he/she wrote in the first 5-6 years, because, after all, who understands it better than the original author?
Most companies, for better or worse, tend to put programmers on the same lifecycle as the products/projects the programmers are hired to work on. The star programmers are hired in to design a better widget, and once they are all fired up on the design, they lead on the implementation. Some of the really cool stuff doesn't make it into the 1.0 version, so, since they understand both the 1.0 version and the concepts of the really cool stuff, they stick around to do the really cool stuff for version 2.0. Marketing and some other dependent projects need some additional changes beyond the 2.0 version, and of course nobody understands this better than the original programmers, so they are given incentives to stick around and do the 3.0 version.
This is called the programmer life-cycle. The programmer life-cycle is comprised of phases that directly affect and predict productivity, rather than the activities of the product life-cycle.
The sequence of phases is: euphoric, productive, irreplaceable, resentful, bored, and unproductive. Overall productivity is characterized by an initial six month period of intense interest, at which time productivity rates are often an order of magnitude higher than the oft-quoted 500 LOC/month average. After a short period of volatility, the programmer then enters a prolonged phase of steadily dwindling interest, resulting in productivity rates that mimic the average.
The sequence of phases can be successfully reset by departing from the current employer, to embark on a new project, career, or lifestyle.
"The system could also "automatically detect frustration or stress in the user" and "offer and provide assistance accordingly"." Smith! 6079 Smith W.! Yes, you! Bend lower, please! You can do better than that. You're not trying. Lower, please! That's better, comrade.
This is really a tempest in a teapot. The federal government's interpretation of what constitutes your right to privacy and how they will act to protect it while keeping the country safe is all detailed in the Continuity Annexes of National Security Presidential Directive 51. See item 23 in particular.
The window server, or more accurately, the dynamic linker running as part of the window server process launch, doesn't care to have it's threads suspended and resumed to find new code injected into the server.
That's naughty.
Look near the error in/var/log/system.log for mention of something called 'aped'. That's the culprit.
Slashdot Mirror
If Pystar can win on OSX, the same argument could, in principle, be made for other operating systems.
Correct. One could simply pay the market price for an operating system or other software, and use it in any manner one wants without regard for terms of the associated license.
One could, for example, use a GNU/Linux operating system as the basis for a set-top box, and ignore the terms of the GPL license as irrelevant, as they have already paid the going rate for the software.
When your pretty graph goes back "millions" of years, then you might have a point, but 400k out of 3.5 billion years, this is about as useful as grabbing a handful of random people from a barney the dinosaur concert and using them to stereotype the other 6.5 billion people on the planet.
Oh, snap! That's your problem right there. That graph just goes back too diddly-darn far. Why, the earth is only 6,000 years old. All this talk of millions or billions of years is just crazy talk.
You're not going to get anywhere with your fact-based agendas.
znu is right. bonch is wrong.
Screenshots are all raster data. Bitmaps. Pixels. And yes, raster data can be embedded in PDF files.
Rasterization of each app's vector drawing operations occurs primarily within the application. through the app's Quartz drawing context. (OpenGL may be used there, so if someone wants to get really pedantic, the actual generation of pixels might be happening in the GL driver and GPU.)
This is getting pretty far off topic. (Welcome to /.)
NeXTSTEP 4.0 Alpha; sometimes mis-called Beta on web sites.
The software featured tabs across the screen bottom for various window types. (We cribbed these for Mac OS 8.5 after the merger, as the tabbed window feature.) The Documents tab was a window which presented icons of documents, each of which could be a preview of the actual document, badged to indicate the associated application.
This implementation nicely meets all the claims, but predates the patent application by 5 years. I won't bother going through all the details, but Cygnus is boned. Software patent litigation as a business model is so last decade...
Hmmm... I wonder who would have the most to gain by undermining Apple
No, no. The ultimate target isn't Apple. The ultimate target is anyone who tries to apply restrictions on their software via copyright and license.
It's all about legal acquisition without obligations. For example, Evil, Inc might want to acquire software that happens to fall under this license: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html It might be neat to take all that stuff, tweak it to run a settop box/game system/file server/toaster and not have to worry about those pesky restrictions like making source code available.
Not that anyone would actually do something like that...
Apple has failed to deliver a fully compostable computer built solely with clean straw and dung from goats on a macrobiotic diet. This is particularly disappointing when one realizes that other companies have been delivering dung-based computing technology for years.
I haz a prior art. What I do wif it?
This is all part of DisplayPort, the display connection. Like HDMI, the digital display connection for HDTV gear, DisplayPort includes an end-to-end encryption mechanism. (Take a look at HDMI/HDCP.)
The end-to-end secure data path is something the HD content providers insist on.
In which your character must decide whether or not to take a bath, with or without the aid of servants!
Ah, truly thrilling gameplay at it's very best. The quest to find double-walled pails with lids; the confrontations with kitchen staff; and certainly not least, the challenge of racing from the kitchens to the bath before the water cools, while minimizing delays from Guardsmen checking to make sure there were no knives hidden in the water.
I can hardly wait. No, strike that. Yes, I can.
Does this mean that someday soon, I may see speeds in excess of 768K/384K [1] to my very own home? You know, what AT&T calls "High Speed Internet?" Oh, frabjous joy!
1. Actual speeds based on DSL synch rate, may vary, and are not guaranteed. Many factors affect speed. Service and speed not available in all areas.
The Corporate Astrologer indicated that this would be an auspicious time to shift spending and investment from basic science to litigation activities.
Actually, it's the software, not the hardware.
What you really want to ask is why someone, just because they hold the copyright on some software, can dictate terms of use to someone else, or pursue legal action against someone who has obtained the software but is now using it in a manner not granted by license.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/13/1857241/
Choose carefully. Choose wisely.
Suppose the DHS decides it wants a permanent archive of who was where, when?
Well, they'll just have to buy the data from the state DMV like everyone else.
For audit purposes the DMV or equivalent agency computers in most states log queries. Queries may include information from the querying system.
In the case of license plate recognition systems, a private agency such as AutoVu http://www.autovu.com/index.cfm?&lang=EN_CA may be involved as well, and will likely have more detailed records. While not public records, I suspect that for a modest gratuity an underpaid employee could be found who wouldn't mind printing out a bit of the database.
I think it's interesting that companies I can find doing the monitoring gruntwork, AutoVu and Declan NET, are Canadian. Canada has "The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" (PIPEDA) to protect Canadians from this sort of information collection. Perhaps it doesn't cover data processing originating and destined for foreign lands?
So. the Free Software Foundation is now the official sponsor of DOS prankings and such asshattery? Way to go, guys. Tie up a nice service that Apple provides to its customers with a stream of bozos all asking the same questions, all outside the scope of knowledge of the help desk people you are pestering.
You have surely found an inspired way to win friends and influence people. For a followup, you can spam all /. accounts with messages asking for contributions.
Defective by design, indeed.
Be sure to let us know how the NHTSA tests go for this vehicle.
If the vehicle needs to be modified to pass the tests, what sort of milage do you expect to see? I suspect it would wind up with an EPA rating around 60 MPG.
Greetings, Oh Anonymous Coward. I know you. You were an embarrassment to the manager that hired you. That stunt you pulled where you collected pay for months without showing up, while nobody could find you, was terrible. You finally stayed away long enough for job abandonment to be applied, fortunately.
While Apple has paid lower salaries, what Apple HR refers to as 'competitive', a weighted range below the industry mid-point, they also gave out stock options. An engineer at Apple who had amassed options with exercise in the low teens or better per share might find themselves pretty well off on paper with the stock price now at $181/share. The last of these nice options vest over this year.
Other benefits such as medical are also 'competitive', or poor to mediocre. Things that you might have read about, such as the old sabbatical program, are long gone.
This now turns into an entirely different problem for Apple, as the senior technical people discover that they can exercise those options, and even after covering the taxes can invest the proceeds in a fairly conservative manner and easily replace their salary. The ability to pop on that T-shirt saying "F#@k You I Am Fully Vested" does wonders for one's BS tolerance level. Some folks might not tolerate being put on maintenance duty, code cleanup ("Please alter the tabs and indentation of the following 310 source code files") , or being given a series of problem reports that 'Function F() is 1.1% slower in Leopard than in Tiger. Fix as your top priority item and send Bertrand daily status!" (This gets old after a few hundred repetitions.)
It remains to be seen as to how much of Apple's more experienced workforce might depart in the near future, and what impact this will have on the business and those who remain behind.
There's always more room for improvement. One could, for example, impose a beneficial energy pattern by the proper attachment of P.W.B. Electret Ring Ties so as to establish a full Stage Five dominant energy pattern within 'space geometry'. One must take great care to apply the same pattern to electrical power interconnects as well as the audio interconnects. A P.W.B Morphic Message Foil can be applied to the Ethernet cable and the listener's forehead to ensure proper synchronization of digital cognisance.
http://www.belt.demon.co.uk/product/product.html
(I only wish this stuff weren't real. I dread being dragged into any conversation with a True Believer audiophile.)
Can't argue with the iPod Touch having "style" or "class", but... who cares?
/. readers...
Hmmm... Venn diagram modeling set of people desiring "style or class". Intersect with the set of
The Empty Set!
Yaay! Now we can protest when politicians pursue religious OR fact-based agendas.
Maintenance programming for all the stuff he/she wrote in the first 5-6 years, because, after all, who understands it better than the original author?
Most companies, for better or worse, tend to put programmers on the same lifecycle as the products/projects the programmers are hired to work on. The star programmers are hired in to design a better widget, and once they are all fired up on the design, they lead on the implementation. Some of the really cool stuff doesn't make it into the 1.0 version, so, since they understand both the 1.0 version and the concepts of the really cool stuff, they stick around to do the really cool stuff for version 2.0. Marketing and some other dependent projects need some additional changes beyond the 2.0 version, and of course nobody understands this better than the original programmers, so they are given incentives to stick around and do the 3.0 version.
This is called the programmer life-cycle. The programmer life-cycle is comprised of phases that directly affect and predict productivity, rather than the activities of the product life-cycle.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=986710.986720
The sequence of phases can be successfully reset by departing from the current employer, to embark on a new project, career, or lifestyle.
I would like to introduce you to two new products:
Credentials-B-Gone
Revenue-B-Gone
This is really a tempest in a teapot. The federal government's interpretation of what constitutes your right to privacy and how they will act to protect it while keeping the country safe is all detailed in the Continuity Annexes of National Security Presidential Directive 51. See item 23 in particular.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html>
The window server, or more accurately, the dynamic linker running as part of the window server process launch, doesn't care to have it's threads suspended and resumed to find new code injected into the server.
/var/log/system.log for mention of something called 'aped'. That's the culprit.
That's naughty.
Look near the error in
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857