...but how much hard work did he actually do on this thing?
Doesn't matter. The post clearly shows (if accurate) that Arrington owns a piece of the intellectual property that make up the CrunchPad. Its as if a bunch of different people got together to make a pizza chain with one guy coming up with the name, logo, mascot, and business plan, and the other guys deciding to ace that first guy out yet retaining all of that first guy's input. Its a blatant rip-off of Arrington, no matter how much work he did. If you own a piece, you own a piece. That fact isn't up for debate. I bet you'd be pissed off too if this happened to you; even if you spent all the development time sitting on your couch channel surfing.
This can only work so long (and that may be centuries), but eventually better & more accurate observations will displace Einstein's lofty (and most well-deserved) place in Scientific Knowledge. The man was brilliant, but he wasn't omniscient in his understanding of natural law. Eventually an observation he couldn't have had access to will present itself to humanity and knock the old man's findings on its ass.
But you're not being forced to pay anything, you're choosing to.
Sure, and if I don't want to pay pull price for bread I can eat cake, too. The facts are non-windows pre-packed machines are few and far between, believe me, I keep an eye out. After years of looking for and finding exactly what I wanted in a notebook (small and light; no light drive, Linux (Or no windows, I'll take either), and full-power cpu, no celerons) I found a notebook that fit the bill better and cheaper than the one I picked, except it had windows on it. So I bit the bullet and bought the thing. Hoping for a EULA I could document and deny, I was presented with a pre-configured rig that gave me no chance to go through the EULA. Really pissed off at this tactic, I bit the bullet and proceeded to wipe the drive and install the software *I* wanted.
It seems to me that if I want a notebook I have to buy crap with it I don't want and have no use for. THAT is wrong, don't give me this "choice" crap.
Intention or not it should be illegal. If I refuse a product or service, I should not be compelled to pay for it anyway. Being forced to bay for something I don't want is simply wrong. Another excellent case for geeks like me who don't mind putting in the time to build their own rig, which I have always done. Of course, if I want a laptop, that strategy blows and I'm forced to pay the Microsoft tax anyway. I just pisses me off having to pay that money.
Now that's interesting. I'm from a fairly average place filled with average people and I've never had to make the distinction obvious. Are you from a Blue state, or Europe?
No, its fine. You can still install GIMP if you want it. Everyone going on about what a bad move this is. Ridiculous. GIMP is a huge blob of software that I very rarely use. Why don't I use it often? Because the UI is NOT intuitive, its all over the place, and doesn't conform AT ALL to the SDI UI model that has proven to be the best UI model out right now (SDI: Firefox, IE. Tabs are ok, 16 different windows keep me searching for what I want, very bad design.) As a UI designer (as one of my hats) GIMP's design is very poor in my opinion, it stinks of being an afterthought of an application. For raster editors that have a superior UI in my opinion look at Carbon 14 or Inkscape, both Linux apps. However, for my money, although not a raster-based editor, take a look at LViewPro. This windows app has the best user interface ever. I spent very little time learning how to use it. Not something I can say about GIMP.
The email trail even includes a query from a redhat developer asking why its such an issue. Incredible. I was going to quote some of that thread but the entire exchange is pretty funny, odd, and scary. Remind me to continue to not use RH, at least as a server.
Anyone who is watching tpb saga and rubbing their hands in glee thinking "Those pesky file sharers are on the run now!" need to have their heads examined. Shut tpb down completely. Won't change a thing.
I know bribery is accepted practice in the US but here in the EU it is still frowned upon. I'm sure it is frowned upon, (except in Spain, apparently, see third link), but the EU is hardly the place for a square deal:
And I could go on. I don't know where you're dreaming up this bizarre notions about the US (I assume you are another US-hating EU idiot, so I won't question it) but bribery is not an accepted practice, politicians are caught up bribery scandals here all the time; the latest being this Jefferson guy: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AD01Z20091114, as he was just sentenced to 13 years I would hardly call what he did "accepted". You just sort of make up what life is like here based on your own twisted notions of hell and slums and what life must be like wherever you AREN'T, don't you? The moral is, don't write checks with your mouth your EU can't cash.
$1M seems like a low figure for most large online concerns, they probably make that in a day, or a week, probably. But $1B is a lot for one individual. I find it hard to believe that anyone would be willing to subtract $1B from their net worth for a doomed plan. Even if Cuban makes every beneficiary sign a draconian, binding as steel, I-get-your-first-born-if-you-break-this contract, losing 1000 of their best customers isn't going to break Google. They must have many more than 1000 customers in that bracket.
They did "Man up", as it were. Yes, we are all pleasantly surprised. Inspired, I just halted my download of Windows 7, vowing then and there to pay full price.
Wrong. It comes from a number of posts about how terrible the US is and how wonderful Europe is, with no real substantive reasons other than we're a bunch of assholes. Your post was simply asinine, my sense of humor has nothing to do with it.
"Or maybe it's just your currency is worthless ?" Of course a pissed-off Brit steps up to deflate the room of any hint of fun, and remind everyone how much Europe hates the US, even though neither article or comments addressed any such topic and the tone of the entire conversation was light and fun for just a little bit. Go find another crusade, fool.
"Assume the IEA whisleblower is correct, and that peak oil is approaching far faster than we've been led to believe. Hell, we might even be on the downturn already!"
OR; we can assume the opposite, as no one really knows where peak oil is. Peak oil is calculated by observing the production bell curve of past and existing well production. It may be an excellent measure of peak oil. But, it may be retardedly bad. I'm not advocating that we ignore the possibility that we are close to pumping the last of the oil out of the ground. But I'm always wary of anyone who makes claims, especially people with an agenda that isn't always obvious. Grinding the current engine of civilization to a halt and re-tooling to use renewable energy is a laudable goal, but it will cost millions of lives. Not money, but lives. Make no mistake. Doing a sudden about-face will not only be a hassle, it will actually be dangerous. I'm not entirely convinced that people who are leading the outcry to make this about-face are concerned with this simple fact.
I was going to say, when I first saw the headline I read it as 7 meters (as it actually is) and thought "How is this news?" Then I thought "Well, maybe its 7 miles, if so, how did astronomers miss it until well after it would be too late?" Then I read the article; 7 meters. Ok, I'm not saying its inconsequential, but c'mon... headline news its not. If it hit the atmosphere around here somewhere, that would indeed be cool though.
"The problem with techies, they need to learn to think like a businessman. We control the information, get it together techies!" Even worse, I'm quite sure he thoroughly believes that its not for him to take the steps (step) necessary to make robots.txt effective; ie, adding the necessary information to block google from your domain. I'll bet you any amount that he feels its up to indexers like Google to know stray into his informational turf, boundaries imagined or otherwise.
If you're in Gnome development you'll see Pennington's name all over a dozen forums and readmes and all kinds of crap. He's a powerhouse behind GTKMM, the graphic apis, the list just goes on for ever. Even so, I'm not paying USD700 for a netbook. I just paid $330 for a very decent model with an 11.6" lcd (and Atom proc, of course.) That will do me just fine.
Yep, what he said; Ubuntu has a server version. As a long time user of OpenBSD for server duty however, I think you could do worse, unless you absolutely have no time or patience for using shells and cmd line utils. In which case you probably shouldn't be an IT professional (or a windows schlub).
And for cases where national security is concerned, probably more a likely attack vector than any other. So the likely defense is some kind of boot-time check of the loader's integrity, which is just as possible. For example, a utility to do this on a USB fob. Then of course the you have to remember to take your fob with you...
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...but how much hard work did he actually do on this thing?
Doesn't matter. The post clearly shows (if accurate) that Arrington owns a piece of the intellectual property that make up the CrunchPad. Its as if a bunch of different people got together to make a pizza chain with one guy coming up with the name, logo, mascot, and business plan, and the other guys deciding to ace that first guy out yet retaining all of that first guy's input. Its a blatant rip-off of Arrington, no matter how much work he did. If you own a piece, you own a piece. That fact isn't up for debate. I bet you'd be pissed off too if this happened to you; even if you spent all the development time sitting on your couch channel surfing.
This can only work so long (and that may be centuries), but eventually better & more accurate observations will displace Einstein's lofty (and most well-deserved) place in Scientific Knowledge. The man was brilliant, but he wasn't omniscient in his understanding of natural law. Eventually an observation he couldn't have had access to will present itself to humanity and knock the old man's findings on its ass.
But you're not being forced to pay anything, you're choosing to.
Sure, and if I don't want to pay pull price for bread I can eat cake, too. The facts are non-windows pre-packed machines are few and far between, believe me, I keep an eye out. After years of looking for and finding exactly what I wanted in a notebook (small and light; no light drive, Linux (Or no windows, I'll take either), and full-power cpu, no celerons) I found a notebook that fit the bill better and cheaper than the one I picked, except it had windows on it. So I bit the bullet and bought the thing. Hoping for a EULA I could document and deny, I was presented with a pre-configured rig that gave me no chance to go through the EULA. Really pissed off at this tactic, I bit the bullet and proceeded to wipe the drive and install the software *I* wanted.
It seems to me that if I want a notebook I have to buy crap with it I don't want and have no use for. THAT is wrong, don't give me this "choice" crap.
Intention or not it should be illegal. If I refuse a product or service, I should not be compelled to pay for it anyway. Being forced to bay for something I don't want is simply wrong. Another excellent case for geeks like me who don't mind putting in the time to build their own rig, which I have always done. Of course, if I want a laptop, that strategy blows and I'm forced to pay the Microsoft tax anyway. I just pisses me off having to pay that money.
Now that's interesting. I'm from a fairly average place filled with average people and I've never had to make the distinction obvious. Are you from a Blue state, or Europe?
Did I mention the Chinese Gvmt? You're seeing things.
10 years from now the average Chinese is going to say "Socialist values? Heck, we dumped that nonsense a few years ago."
No, its fine. You can still install GIMP if you want it. Everyone going on about what a bad move this is. Ridiculous. GIMP is a huge blob of software that I very rarely use. Why don't I use it often? Because the UI is NOT intuitive, its all over the place, and doesn't conform AT ALL to the SDI UI model that has proven to be the best UI model out right now (SDI: Firefox, IE. Tabs are ok, 16 different windows keep me searching for what I want, very bad design.) As a UI designer (as one of my hats) GIMP's design is very poor in my opinion, it stinks of being an afterthought of an application. For raster editors that have a superior UI in my opinion look at Carbon 14 or Inkscape, both Linux apps. However, for my money, although not a raster-based editor, take a look at LViewPro. This windows app has the best user interface ever. I spent very little time learning how to use it. Not something I can say about GIMP.
The email trail even includes a query from a redhat developer asking why its such an issue. Incredible. I was going to quote some of that thread but the entire exchange is pretty funny, odd, and scary. Remind me to continue to not use RH, at least as a server.
Perfect illustration of why the Nigerian 419 scam works so well.
Anyone who is watching tpb saga and rubbing their hands in glee thinking "Those pesky file sharers are on the run now!" need to have their heads examined. Shut tpb down completely. Won't change a thing.
I know bribery is accepted practice in the US but here in the EU it is still frowned upon.
I'm sure it is frowned upon, (except in Spain, apparently, see third link), but the EU is hardly the place for a square deal:
And I could go on. I don't know where you're dreaming up this bizarre notions about the US (I assume you are another US-hating EU idiot, so I won't question it) but bribery is not an accepted practice, politicians are caught up bribery scandals here all the time; the latest being this Jefferson guy: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AD01Z20091114, as he was just sentenced to 13 years I would hardly call what he did "accepted". You just sort of make up what life is like here based on your own twisted notions of hell and slums and what life must be like wherever you AREN'T, don't you? The moral is, don't write checks with your mouth your EU can't cash.
$1M seems like a low figure for most large online concerns, they probably make that in a day, or a week, probably. But $1B is a lot for one individual. I find it hard to believe that anyone would be willing to subtract $1B from their net worth for a doomed plan. Even if Cuban makes every beneficiary sign a draconian, binding as steel, I-get-your-first-born-if-you-break-this contract, losing 1000 of their best customers isn't going to break Google. They must have many more than 1000 customers in that bracket.
They did "Man up", as it were. Yes, we are all pleasantly surprised. Inspired, I just halted my download of Windows 7, vowing then and there to pay full price.
Wrong. It comes from a number of posts about how terrible the US is and how wonderful Europe is, with no real substantive reasons other than we're a bunch of assholes. Your post was simply asinine, my sense of humor has nothing to do with it.
Who wrote this piece? English must be their second language...
"Or maybe it's just your currency is worthless ?"
Of course a pissed-off Brit steps up to deflate the room of any hint of fun, and remind everyone how much Europe hates the US, even though neither article or comments addressed any such topic and the tone of the entire conversation was light and fun for just a little bit. Go find another crusade, fool.
"Assume the IEA whisleblower is correct, and that peak oil is approaching far faster than we've been led to believe. Hell, we might even be on the downturn already!"
OR; we can assume the opposite, as no one really knows where peak oil is. Peak oil is calculated by observing the production bell curve of past and existing well production. It may be an excellent measure of peak oil. But, it may be retardedly bad. I'm not advocating that we ignore the possibility that we are close to pumping the last of the oil out of the ground. But I'm always wary of anyone who makes claims, especially people with an agenda that isn't always obvious. Grinding the current engine of civilization to a halt and re-tooling to use renewable energy is a laudable goal, but it will cost millions of lives. Not money, but lives. Make no mistake. Doing a sudden about-face will not only be a hassle, it will actually be dangerous. I'm not entirely convinced that people who are leading the outcry to make this about-face are concerned with this simple fact.
I was going to say, when I first saw the headline I read it as 7 meters (as it actually is) and thought "How is this news?" Then I thought "Well, maybe its 7 miles, if so, how did astronomers miss it until well after it would be too late?" Then I read the article; 7 meters. Ok, I'm not saying its inconsequential, but c'mon... headline news its not. If it hit the atmosphere around here somewhere, that would indeed be cool though.
"The problem with techies, they need to learn to think like a businessman. We control the information, get it together techies!"
Even worse, I'm quite sure he thoroughly believes that its not for him to take the steps (step) necessary to make robots.txt effective; ie, adding the necessary information to block google from your domain. I'll bet you any amount that he feels its up to indexers like Google to know stray into his informational turf, boundaries imagined or otherwise.
Due to a process I invented I call "Pseudo-Digital Misanthropy" I now claim ownership of slashdot. You all owe me back user fees.
@click2005: "Another Price Increase"
Yep. A pack of gangsters just created some technology. Great.
If you're in Gnome development you'll see Pennington's name all over a dozen forums and readmes and all kinds of crap. He's a powerhouse behind GTKMM, the graphic apis, the list just goes on for ever. Even so, I'm not paying USD700 for a netbook. I just paid $330 for a very decent model with an 11.6" lcd (and Atom proc, of course.) That will do me just fine.
Yep, what he said; Ubuntu has a server version. As a long time user of OpenBSD for server duty however, I think you could do worse, unless you absolutely have no time or patience for using shells and cmd line utils. In which case you probably shouldn't be an IT professional (or a windows schlub).
And for cases where national security is concerned, probably more a likely attack vector than any other. So the likely defense is some kind of boot-time check of the loader's integrity, which is just as possible. For example, a utility to do this on a USB fob. Then of course the you have to remember to take your fob with you...