And so it continues... stupid patent laws killing all technological innovation in the U.S. as companies waste more and more of their time on lawsuits. Congress needs to wake up! The rest of the world, unfettered by this idiocy, is increasingly dominating the outside-U.S. market, which is most of it, because it is not saddled with this nonsense.
Since the big telcoms plan to begin this silly business of selling speed to providers, it is time to begin the infrastructure for alternative internet provision. What alternatives can we craft that provide reliable, unbiased internet service to home without their interference? Many ideas come to mind, most of them involving wireless.
Given the overwhelming success of the Wii, Apple will finally see the huge mistake it has made in abandoning the PowerPC platform and return with a massively powerful G6 processor. You heard it here first.
They also neglect to mention that Canadians pay a tax on blank media that is meant to compensate artists for downloads.
Not really. The tax is meant to cover copies made from legitimately obtained originals, as in when your friend loans you his CD or you borrow it from the library. In Canada it has been ruled that the blank media tax covers this and it's legal to copy the CD, whatever the RIAA or whomever may think. I don't think that the download case has been tested.
I agree with the previous poster who pointed out that there is no reason for this to appear in curriculum except private interests. Having them drive curriculum is dangerous and inappropriate.
Notice that there is now only one model of the iMac G5 left on the website?
Where'd the others go?
The switch is a done deal, don't watch for any remaining G4/G5 production.
Foo
Ok, so I've been quiet about this. But I've been a Mac user since day 1, and I'm seriously unhappy.
So we go Intel, and what happens? Typical Intel long list of hardware bugs. Maybe it's my memory, but I don't recall any such lists of PowerPC errors. Ever.
And what exactly is the upside? The new box doesn't do anything I'm interested in any faster than the G4 I'm working on, much less the G5 at work. And we've lost all back-compatibility. My extremely valuable old ClarisDraw, WriteNow and HomePage projects can't be opened at all on Intel because they've abandoned OS 9 compatibility. We can't run Virtual PC at all, losing all my Windows testbeds.
I don't get it. It was a stupid idea to begin with, and it looks stupider every minute. Sorry, Steve, but just because Big Blue didn't think you were the most interesing playmate on the block for a couple of months doesn't justify giving up the biggest advantage you have. What ever happened to "think different?"
I wasn't intending to be funny, actually, I was musing that perhaps that's exactly what he is doing.
More to the point, he may be afraid that if he goes in for more tests that's what *they* will do. If I were in the situation I would be working to make sure that nobody could be stealing this "opportunity" in this way, rather that it become available to everyone without such encumbrances.
The easiest way to do that is to pursue the patent yourself (after all, you should own your own genes, one might think) and donate the patent.
Well, such a tax/levy has been law in Canada for some time now, but it's at least ten times less (C$25 per iPod > 10 Gb).
The upside of this is that the Canadian courts have ruled that the levy actually makes copying music from a source you obtained legally (e.g., a copy loaned to you by a friend who him/herself has it legally) is legal in Canada since you've already paid the copyright fee in the blank media.
By all means, let them run amok and waste money on BS patents. Just make sure that the first time they get challenged they actually go down. If the challenge fails, THEN there's a problem.
Wrong, actually - if they take anyone to court at all there is a problem. In the US court system, s/he who has the most gold wins (virtually always), simply because they can afford the most lawyer time, court time and delaying tactics.
What's really going on here is putting all small developers out of business without ever having to prove anything, simply by having the legal system bankrupt them.
I've found that nothing touches a Tom Bihn lapdog heavy-duty neoprene sleeve inside a Tom Bihn backpack. Simply indestructible, and tight as a drum. Everything custom fits your machine.
Foobar
AppleCare has saved me thousands in cash, and weeks in time. Their definition of what's covered is in practice "anything". Cracked a motherboard by twisting my PB, no problem. Pulled my power supply out by the cord too often, no problem. And so on.
-- Foo
MacOS X uses LF, like Linux and all other Unices, so far as I can tell. Or at least, any file created with the TextEdit and development utilities that come with it seems to be in LF format. And of course anything you create with Vim or such in a Terminal window is.
I suspect any remaining CR text files you might run across come from old MacOS 9 utilities and programs like MPW or such.
Slashdot Mirror
And so it continues ... stupid patent laws killing all technological innovation in the U.S. as companies waste more and more of their time on lawsuits. Congress needs to wake up! The rest of the world, unfettered by this idiocy, is increasingly dominating the outside-U.S. market, which is most of it, because it is not saddled with this nonsense.
Could it be that foreign students pay higher tuitions, so there is an incentive for the schools to accept them in preference to American students?
Since the big telcoms plan to begin this silly business of selling speed to providers, it is time to begin the infrastructure for alternative internet provision. What alternatives can we craft that provide reliable, unbiased internet service to home without their interference? Many ideas come to mind, most of them involving wireless.
Foo
Given the overwhelming success of the Wii, Apple will finally see the huge mistake it has made in abandoning the PowerPC platform and return with a massively powerful G6 processor. You heard it here first.
Foo
Not really. The tax is meant to cover copies made from legitimately obtained originals, as in when your friend loans you his CD or you borrow it from the library. In Canada it has been ruled that the blank media tax covers this and it's legal to copy the CD, whatever the RIAA or whomever may think. I don't think that the download case has been tested.
I agree with the previous poster who pointed out that there is no reason for this to appear in curriculum except private interests. Having them drive curriculum is dangerous and inappropriate.
Foo
Notice that there is now only one model of the iMac G5 left on the website? Where'd the others go? The switch is a done deal, don't watch for any remaining G4/G5 production. Foo
Ok, so I've been quiet about this. But I've been a Mac user since day 1, and I'm seriously unhappy.
So we go Intel, and what happens? Typical Intel long list of hardware bugs. Maybe it's my memory, but I don't recall any such lists of PowerPC errors. Ever.
And what exactly is the upside? The new box doesn't do anything I'm interested in any faster than the G4 I'm working on, much less the G5 at work. And we've lost all back-compatibility. My extremely valuable old ClarisDraw, WriteNow and HomePage projects can't be opened at all on Intel because they've abandoned OS 9 compatibility. We can't run Virtual PC at all, losing all my Windows testbeds.
I don't get it. It was a stupid idea to begin with, and it looks stupider every minute. Sorry, Steve, but just because Big Blue didn't think you were the most interesing playmate on the block for a couple of months doesn't justify giving up the biggest advantage you have. What ever happened to "think different?"
Foo
I wasn't intending to be funny, actually, I was musing that perhaps that's exactly what he is doing.
More to the point, he may be afraid that if he goes in for more tests that's what *they* will do. If I were in the situation I would be working to make sure that nobody could be stealing this "opportunity" in this way, rather that it become available to everyone without such encumbrances.
The easiest way to do that is to pursue the patent yourself (after all, you should own your own genes, one might think) and donate the patent.
He's waiting to patent his genes first.
... on the camel's back, as the US slowly sinks into patent hell while the rest of the world continues to progress unfettered by this nonsense.
foo
The upside of this is that the Canadian courts have ruled that the levy actually makes copying music from a source you obtained legally (e.g., a copy loaned to you by a friend who him/herself has it legally) is legal in Canada since you've already paid the copyright fee in the blank media.
Foo
By all means, let them run amok and waste money on BS patents. Just make sure that the first time they get challenged they actually go down. If the challenge fails, THEN there's a problem.
Wrong, actually - if they take anyone to court at all there is a problem. In the US court system, s/he who has the most gold wins (virtually always), simply because they can afford the most lawyer time, court time and delaying tactics.
What's really going on here is putting all small developers out of business without ever having to prove anything, simply by having the legal system bankrupt them.
Foo
I've found that nothing touches a Tom Bihn lapdog heavy-duty neoprene sleeve inside a Tom Bihn backpack. Simply indestructible, and tight as a drum. Everything custom fits your machine. Foobar
AppleCare has saved me thousands in cash, and weeks in time. Their definition of what's covered is in practice "anything". Cracked a motherboard by twisting my PB, no problem. Pulled my power supply out by the cord too often, no problem. And so on. -- Foo
MacOS X uses LF, like Linux and all other Unices, so far as I can tell. Or at least, any file created with the TextEdit and development utilities that come with it seems to be in LF format. And of course anything you create with Vim or such in a Terminal window is.
I suspect any remaining CR text files you might run across come from old MacOS 9 utilities and programs like MPW or such.
Foo