I'm not going to weigh in on the infringement versus theft thing, but I will say this. With as many millions of times as this horse has been beat to death here on/., this comment should not be modded to +5 Insightful. It should be very Redundant by now--not to mention Off topic. Come on, we're talking about a Mac emulator, not the RIAA! Grow up! Save the mod points for someone who can actually tell us something about this Cherry OS.
They're doing this because Donna Payne from Payne Consulting Group gave a talk at Microsoft in which she downloaded some Word files from their website and showed them the network shares and tracked changes that showed up in the metadata of the document.
I don't think that would be hard for them to get around. If it were a document that they were going to have to distribute outside the company, they would just take that Word doc, select all, copy, open a new doc, and paste. That would have no history or metadata included in it, and then it would be safe to distribute. That example you mentioned was just because someone had gotten hold of a document that they considered internal and therefore hadn't "cleaned" the included history from it.
I was looking for the appropriate place to post this comment after reading the article, and I think it applies well to this section of your comment.
I don't want a $1500 system that feels slower than a $1200 system. So all you Mac users, please help. Is there a significant/noticible difference between a Powerbook which costs $1599 or $1799 and a similarily priced Windows laptop?
Yes, apparently--a slower processor, less memory, crappier video card, and a mouse without a secondary button or scroll wheel! When he was first talking about buying the machine for this experiment, I cringed at hearing the $3,000 price tag, but I thought, "OK, he said he's buying basically top of the line so he can really focus on what the OS can do without hardware limitations." But then he went on to mention how it needed a better video card and more memory to perform well. WTF??!! For THREE FRICKETY THOUSAND smackers, it'd better perform well out of the box! Geez, I can stand a 20% price increase because of Mac's ease of use, but that's awful!
According to the Scottsdale police report, the Stonegate resident who granted access to a suspect in August noticed a charge to an online store on his American Express card.
My first thought on this was, "Ever hear of a thing called a wife? That's the first source that would come to my mind for unknown charges on my credit cards." The "granted access" part is out of context in this quote though. It's referring to him allowing someone past a security gate in the community--rather than referring to computer access.
Oh yeah, and I got a quote for these people from Gone in Sixty Seconds:
Donny : [shuts car off] Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Shit, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black ass out the pool!
Ponder how you might feel if you were a Regular Joe using your WiFi equipment. You read the confusing literature and try your best to secure your WiFi network. But you're not exactly sure if you go it right. Now you find out that there are people out there lurking around in your neighborhood whose sole purpose is to look for unsecure networks and... and you don't know what, but you're not exactly excited to find out what these wardrivers are going to do once they've gained access.
So you...[REPEAT AFTER ME] get technical help to secure it. You DO NOT complain to the police about a "problem" stemming from your laziness. Seriously--I don't complain to automakers that they need to do something to make their cars more simple because I don't know how to put a new transmission in. There are people I can pay to do it who already know how. Specialization is one of the things that makes a society more efficient. Some people know computers, so that others who don't, can hire them to do stuff for them. Other people--plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, etc. know something in depth so the rest of us don't have to.
One Audi dealer offered $10,000 to anyone who could make the car take off while he had his foot on the brake. There were no takers. Every car made has better brakes that overpower the engine. The engine will die. The car will stop.
So? Totally different thing. If you look up the coefficient of friction for a material, it has two values--static friction(non-moving) and kinetic friction (sliding). The static friction value is always higher, so it would be easier to use the brakes to keep a car from beginning to move than to slow it down once it is already going at speed.
I've had that twilight anesthesia when I had a broken wrist. It was stuck in a bent position and the doctor had to sort of "break" it loose so he could set it in the correct position to put the cast on. It was an interesting experience. Things get kind of fuzzy and dizzy and you don't really know or care much about what's going on around you, but you don't really go all the way out.
I hadn't heard of the crawling pill yet. I had just heard about the Given Imaging pill that just gets pushed along by your normal intestinal movement while filming and transmiting video.
And don't worry about the link--even though we are discussing items emerging from the GI tract, this is a goatse-free post.
OK, here's my problem. Yahoo mail. When I compose a message, I noticed that with IE, it had a link for "Color and Graphics" as opposed to my currently selected "Plain". When I use Firefox or Mozilla, that option is missing. I checked, and it delivers different pages to IE vs. Mozilla with that option not being delivered in the Mozilla version. I thought I would try the User Agent Switcher to try the Colors option in Firefox. It got that page, but when I clicked that link to switch to "Color and Graphics", the page was all screwed up. Does anyone know what it's trying to render that is so screwed up there? Is it IE being able to "backdoor" something from the OS that other browsers don't have access to or what?
I haven't watched all the way through all of them yet, but I have found a couple of minor sound changes that are on the DVD set that were not on the regular Special Edition.
A New Hope: In the scene where Luke and Leia are running down the Death Star hallway and get to the dead-end bridge, there is a famous sound effect mistake/joke. There are stormtroopers shooting at them while Luke is trying to get his grappling hook ready to swing across. In only that scene, the blaster Luke and Leia are using to shoot back is making *bang* sounds like a.45 magnum or something. On this DVD release, it has been changed to the normal laser sound.
Empire Strikes Back: In previous editions, the same scream sound effect was used for the Emperor falling down the shaft on the Death Star as when Luke fell down the shaft in Cloud City. In this new edition, Luke falls silently--no scream of any kind. I have not watched the emperor section of ROTJ yet to see if the Emperor still yells; my guess would be he probably does.
By repeating the survey in the future, we may be able to detect, for example, whether wildlife-friendly gardening and the new national agri-environment schemes are helping to
raise numbers of this crucial component of our wildlife.
You too seem to enjoy the tactics of the demagogue. Here, you are putting words into my mouth and using me as a straw man to advance your agenda. Why can't you put forth you agenda without resorting to
intellectual dishonesty? I'm posting this anonymously because I don't want to waste points teaching you about debating ethics and intellectual honesty.
You said that the moment of birth is when it becomes a baby. Birth is when the baby goes from being inside the mother to outside the mother--a change in location. I don't think I'm putting anything in your mouth by defining the term you used. My question to you is why can't you defend what you believe instead of throwing the same $50 psychology phrase at any response people give you?
Seriously that decision made no sense. Someone made the remark earlier that they had to scrap the old system because it was held together with spit and baling wire or whatever. That still doesn't make sense because they could very easily scrap the old HARDWARE and replace it with Shiny new Sun Blade XXXX servers or something and still use UNIX systems to run it. Why would you switch to entirely new SOFTWARE on Windows?
If anything will stop them in my opinion, it's that the PC hardware vendors will hold off on implementing their DRM plans, knowing how much consumers hate them.
Yeah, since most servers will need to run Linux, Dell, IBM, etc. will still be selling un-trusted computers as servers with Linux installed. As you may have noticed, there is some overlap in what is a "desktop" PC and what is a "server" PC. Sometimes there's hardly any price difference at all, depending on the relative power of each. I don't think the OEMs will stop selling Linux servers, so if that's what you want, that's what you can buy.
It's not a baby until it's born. Calling a fetus or embryo a baby in this sort of discussion is using emotionally loaded language to win your argument, and is usually a sign that you can't make your argument based on logic or reason.
And you are using your personal opinion to arbitrarily create a definition (baby = after birth) which supports your opinion. Since you seem to think that the physical location of the fetus (inside the womb or one foot away outside the womb) determines whether it is a person or not, how about the pregnancy that goes a week overdue? Logically, this should be a baby already, but the mother's body has just not decided to push it out yet. I think of it in terms of a continuum. I think it's fairly obvious that a fetus at its due date is a baby--it just needs to get out. What about the day before that?...and the day before that?... Trace back day by day to the day of conception. At what point did the switch suddenly happen? Before conception, however, there was no life/fetus/whatever, so there is no debate. I think "reproductive choice" is the choice to have sex or not or to use birth control or not. Once the pregnancy happens, a life has begun.
How about this? Think of a seed that is put in the ground and watered. At what point does it become a "plant" instead of a "seed"? You would apparently say that it is when it shows above the dirt. So the day before that it's not a "plant"? What about two seeds that are planted next to each other at the same time, but one is planted 1 inch deeper than the other? One becomes a plant first because there's a little less dirt over it?
I'm turning off my Karma bonus on this because I just wanted to respond to you, rather than try to make myself heard to everyone. Sorry if this was off the main topic, but it's worth it here.
Um, not only did you not RTFA, but you don't seem to realize what the term, "price fixing" means.
You don't seem to understand how price fixing can work. If you have 6 companies in the same business, and two or three of the major ones collude to agree to raise their prices, that doesn't mean all of the 6 companies are involved. When those prices get raised, the others not involved will raise prices too because that's what "the market" is doing. Infineon's settlement indicates they were meeting with someone, but no indication yet of who.
If you were to actually pay closer attention to TFA, You'd have noticed the related articles linked at the bottom. More specifically this
I read ALL TFAs about this. It was already known that all the manufacturers are being investigated by the DOJ. That is what the Register article is referring to. I was clarifying that in this Infineon settlement, none of the other companies are named or involved in the settlement.
None of the other manufacturers were involved in, or even named in this settlement. It was just Infineon. The summary isn't outright false, but it's sure misleading.
The fact is simply that for some reason, Open Office was not included in the covenant (either because Microsoft insisted on this for some reason, because Sun didn't care enough for some reason or a combination of the two).
The "reason" is fairly simple. Sun doesn't own OpenOffice.org. Therefore, they have no right to make any decisions for them or sign any contracts on their behalf. OpenOffice.org originally came from Star Office at the point at which it was released open source, but OOo was completely independent from that point on, and has developed on its own.
They would have an argument if they were overcharging on real CDs. However, a digital download costs the same to send to Germany or the UK, so why the discrepancy? It's profiteering isn't it?
The UK is on an island. Of course it's going to cost more for them to import the files across the ocean/channel to the local Apple servers. Remember, as the RIAA has told us, a download is the same as a physical CD.
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I'm not going to weigh in on the infringement versus theft thing, but I will say this. With as many millions of times as this horse has been beat to death here on /., this comment should not be modded to +5 Insightful. It should be very Redundant by now--not to mention Off topic. Come on, we're talking about a Mac emulator, not the RIAA! Grow up! Save the mod points for someone who can actually tell us something about this Cherry OS.
Oh yeah, and I got a quote for these people from Gone in Sixty Seconds:
Donny : [shuts car off] Don't touch nothing! You can't negotiate turns. You can't signal properly. You can't maintain speed. You can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey. Shit, I can't swim, I know I can't. So you know what I do? I stay my black ass out the pool!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress and head to the bathroom several times.
I've had that twilight anesthesia when I had a broken wrist. It was stuck in a bent position and the doctor had to sort of "break" it loose so he could set it in the correct position to put the cast on. It was an interesting experience. Things get kind of fuzzy and dizzy and you don't really know or care much about what's going on around you, but you don't really go all the way out.
I hadn't heard of the crawling pill yet. I had just heard about the Given Imaging pill that just gets pushed along by your normal intestinal movement while filming and transmiting video.
And don't worry about the link--even though we are discussing items emerging from the GI tract, this is a goatse-free post.
OK, here's my problem. Yahoo mail. When I compose a message, I noticed that with IE, it had a link for "Color and Graphics" as opposed to my currently selected "Plain". When I use Firefox or Mozilla, that option is missing. I checked, and it delivers different pages to IE vs. Mozilla with that option not being delivered in the Mozilla version. I thought I would try the User Agent Switcher to try the Colors option in Firefox. It got that page, but when I clicked that link to switch to "Color and Graphics", the page was all screwed up. Does anyone know what it's trying to render that is so screwed up there? Is it IE being able to "backdoor" something from the OS that other browsers don't have access to or what?
I haven't watched all the way through all of them yet, but I have found a couple of minor sound changes that are on the DVD set that were not on the regular Special Edition.
.45 magnum or something. On this DVD release, it has been changed to the normal laser sound.
A New Hope: In the scene where Luke and Leia are running down the Death Star hallway and get to the dead-end bridge, there is a famous sound effect mistake/joke. There are stormtroopers shooting at them while Luke is trying to get his grappling hook ready to swing across. In only that scene, the blaster Luke and Leia are using to shoot back is making *bang* sounds like a
Empire Strikes Back: In previous editions, the same scream sound effect was used for the Emperor falling down the shaft on the Death Star as when Luke fell down the shaft in Cloud City. In this new edition, Luke falls silently--no scream of any kind. I have not watched the emperor section of ROTJ yet to see if the Emperor still yells; my guess would be he probably does.
Seriously that decision made no sense. Someone made the remark earlier that they had to scrap the old system because it was held together with spit and baling wire or whatever. That still doesn't make sense because they could very easily scrap the old HARDWARE and replace it with Shiny new Sun Blade XXXX servers or something and still use UNIX systems to run it. Why would you switch to entirely new SOFTWARE on Windows?
I think of it in terms of a continuum. I think it's fairly obvious that a fetus at its due date is a baby--it just needs to get out. What about the day before that?
How about this? Think of a seed that is put in the ground and watered. At what point does it become a "plant" instead of a "seed"? You would apparently say that it is when it shows above the dirt. So the day before that it's not a "plant"? What about two seeds that are planted next to each other at the same time, but one is planted 1 inch deeper than the other? One becomes a plant first because there's a little less dirt over it?
I'm turning off my Karma bonus on this because I just wanted to respond to you, rather than try to make myself heard to everyone. Sorry if this was off the main topic, but it's worth it here.
None of the other manufacturers were involved in, or even named in this settlement. It was just Infineon. The summary isn't outright false, but it's sure misleading.