The point was that operating the the WiFi without permission doesn't mean he's not an ISP, it just means he's an ISP operating in violation of his contract.
Bullshit. When you buy a copy of Windows, the store is offering you a product (which necessarily includes the right to use it), you accept the offer by paying, and you receive the valuable consideration of ownership of the software. At this point, the software is your property, to do with however you see fit within the bounds of the law (which necessarily includes use, because that's the stated purpose of the product). At no time is an agreement with Microsoft ever necessary, and the act of clicking the "I agree" button in the software has no more significance than the act of opening the box -- it's just a step required to assemble the product.
Mac users can run Vista Home Basic legally all they want, you know. It just has to be the host OS, with OS X as the virtualized client -- not the other way around.
We already lost when we started thinking of ourselves as "consumers" instead of "citizens" or "people." Whether Google bought DoubleClick or not, that wouldn't change.
No we don't, actually, because copyright (despite the name) is not a "right." It's a privilege invented for the purpose of "promoting progress," nothing more.
Have you got a better solution other than "my right trumps everybody else's"?
How about "everyone's rights trump the privileges of a select few?" Sounds good enough to me!
Do you really think that there's this enormous market of people buying replacements of DVDs that they've already bought but lost or broke?
Or buying a second copy on iTunes because they can't play the DVD on their iPod?
I mean, I'm sure these things happen, but I can't imagine that it's a significant percentage of the market.
Even a single person doing one of these things is a failure of Fair Use, and is therefore unacceptable.
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There are downsides to Linux, but this is not one of them.
No kidding; in fact, Linux is better then Windows in this regard! Windows Update only works with Microsoft stuff, but every Linux distro's package manager works with all the software any non-expert user* could possibly have.
(*non-expert users shouldn't be -- and shouldn't need to be -- installing software outside of the distro's repository.)
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And then you're stuck with a dialog that won't go away. Where's the "I NEVER want to reboot, so SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" button?!
In terms of portability, the "brains" would be both the heaviest and bulkiest device by a long shot...
Exactly, which is why you shouldn't have to hold that part all the times and instead leave it in your pocket.
how often would most people not need a reasonably display...
Pretty damn often, because almost nobody has a reasonable display as it is! They're all using cellphones or PDAs, neither of which have "reasonable" displays (although the PDA screens are less unreasonable).
The whole point of PDAs is to be portable enough to be carried everywhere all the time.
No, the "whole point" is to be that portable while still being usable and useful. And PDAs fail miserably at it (I should know; I own one)!
practicality (do we really want the issue of "I didn't bring my phone because it clashed with my outfit)
That's an argument in favor of my design, because you could wear it under your clothes (since you never need to take it out).
Does anybody else remember the conductive LEGOs introduced with the 9V system?
Uh, I don't know about yours, but my 9V LEGOs (such as in the monorail) weren't electrically conductive themselves; they just used regular plastic blocks with metal bits embedded in them. For example, see the pictures on this site.
First of all, Scotty didn't expect Plexicorp to instantly make him a bunch of transparent aluminum; he exchanged the formula for sheets of plain old plexiglas.
Second, according to Wikipedia (although un-cited), the formula shown was actually that of Lexan, so it wouldn't have been electrically conductive anyway.
In Windows and Mac OS, you can configure everything from the one single place. With Linux, you can only configure GNOME-related stuff in the GNOME control panel, KDE-related stuff in the KDE control panel, other stuff only by digging through/etc, the kernel by using menuconfig or xconfig, etc. From the perspective of a Windows or Mac user, it's rather haphazard.
I just couldn't figure out why anyone would want to do it.
If it was a real joystick (as opposed to those tiny useless thumb sticks that console controllers have nowadays), it would actually be rather similar to aiming a pistol (depending on whether it was configured for absolute or relative positioning).
Battery life. In a "converged" device, you might use all your power playing a movie or something and then lose the functionality of your phone too. With this, if the screen's battery dies the rest of the system still works.
Portability. Don't need the screen (or is the little alphanumeric screen on the "calculator watch" enough)? Leave it at home, and save some weight.
Flexibility. You can pick from a PDA-size (3x4 inch), ebook size (6x8), or full size (9x12) screen, or you could even use a head-mounted display. And you could mix-and-match the "brick" too.
Ergonomics. As the other reply mentioned, the "brick" isn't necessarily a rectangular prism. Maybe it's shaped to fit the small of your back, or maybe it's long, thin, and segmented so that you wear it like you would a belt. Or maybe you need a lot of computational power and storage space (like a Tablet PC), requiring the "brick" to be heavy. Would you still want it attached to the screen (requiring you to hold perhaps a 4 lb. device in one hand* for long periods of time), or would you rather hold just the screen by itself, with weight measured in ounces?
(* 4 lbs doesn't sound like a lot, I know, but remember that you'd need to hold it horizontally, putting the center of gravity out away from your hand. Try holding your laptop in such a way, and see how quickly your arm gets tired.)
An actual ebook reader might have been just as well, but I didn't... want two devices in my pocket.
The original post specifically wanted a device for reading, so he wouldn't have a PDA also. Besides, a cellphone can replace all the functions of a PDA that you don't want a big screen for.
...because the screen is always too small (in terms of both physical size and resolution). Instead, if I wanted a device to be used for reading, I'd get an ebook reader instead. They're bigger and the new ones have "electronic ink" displays, which are (much) easier on the eyes for reading, and give much better battery life because they only draw power when updating the image.
There is no technical reason why a phone shouldn't be a perfectly good music player.
Yes there is: it has the wrong interface.
There's no reason for a PDA not to include phone capabilities.
Ditto.
The hardware is basically the same stuff.
Except for the interface.
Now, here's what really ought to happen: divide up the hardware by interface instead of by function. Stop putting storage and transceivers (e.g. cellular, wifi) in all the devices; instead put that stuff on a brick (without a display) that I can leave in my pocket, and then give me a dumb terminal-like touchscreen (that's as thinner than a PDA), a headset, and maybe a calculator watch-like device for when the touchscreen is unnecessary. Then hook it all together with Bluetooth or wires or something. That's how "convergence" should be!
It didn't get the weird phrasing, i.e. "what is the sum of" instead of "add" or "+." Figuring out the former is a much more difficult natural language processing problem.
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The point was that operating the the WiFi without permission doesn't mean he's not an ISP, it just means he's an ISP operating in violation of his contract.
Bullshit. When you buy a copy of Windows, the store is offering you a product (which necessarily includes the right to use it), you accept the offer by paying, and you receive the valuable consideration of ownership of the software. At this point, the software is your property, to do with however you see fit within the bounds of the law (which necessarily includes use, because that's the stated purpose of the product). At no time is an agreement with Microsoft ever necessary, and the act of clicking the "I agree" button in the software has no more significance than the act of opening the box -- it's just a step required to assemble the product.
Mac users can run Vista Home Basic legally all they want, you know. It just has to be the host OS, with OS X as the virtualized client -- not the other way around.
Also note that in this case -- that is, if you use Windows as the host OS, the (relatively) cheap versions of Vista are perfectly legal to use, too.
I've heard good things about Amarok; once KDE is available for native Windows and Mac OS, I'll hopefully have no more need of iTunes.
We already lost when we started thinking of ourselves as "consumers" instead of "citizens" or "people." Whether Google bought DoubleClick or not, that wouldn't change.
Wanna bet?
No we don't, actually, because copyright (despite the name) is not a "right." It's a privilege invented for the purpose of "promoting progress," nothing more.
How about "everyone's rights trump the privileges of a select few?" Sounds good enough to me!
Even a single person doing one of these things is a failure of Fair Use, and is therefore unacceptable.
No kidding; in fact, Linux is better then Windows in this regard! Windows Update only works with Microsoft stuff, but every Linux distro's package manager works with all the software any non-expert user* could possibly have.
(*non-expert users shouldn't be -- and shouldn't need to be -- installing software outside of the distro's repository.)
And then you're stuck with a dialog that won't go away. Where's the "I NEVER want to reboot, so SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" button?!
Exactly, which is why you shouldn't have to hold that part all the times and instead leave it in your pocket.
Pretty damn often, because almost nobody has a reasonable display as it is! They're all using cellphones or PDAs, neither of which have "reasonable" displays (although the PDA screens are less unreasonable).
No, the "whole point" is to be that portable while still being usable and useful. And PDAs fail miserably at it (I should know; I own one)!
That's an argument in favor of my design, because you could wear it under your clothes (since you never need to take it out).
Likewise, the end result after that mixing is properly called "asphalt concrete," not just "asphalt."
Uh, I don't know about yours, but my 9V LEGOs (such as in the monorail) weren't electrically conductive themselves; they just used regular plastic blocks with metal bits embedded in them. For example, see the pictures on this site.
First of all, Scotty didn't expect Plexicorp to instantly make him a bunch of transparent aluminum; he exchanged the formula for sheets of plain old plexiglas.
Second, according to Wikipedia (although un-cited), the formula shown was actually that of Lexan, so it wouldn't have been electrically conductive anyway.
In Windows and Mac OS, you can configure everything from the one single place. With Linux, you can only configure GNOME-related stuff in the GNOME control panel, KDE-related stuff in the KDE control panel, other stuff only by digging through /etc, the kernel by using menuconfig or xconfig, etc. From the perspective of a Windows or Mac user, it's rather haphazard.
[Team] Fortress Forever is already taken.
If it was a real joystick (as opposed to those tiny useless thumb sticks that console controllers have nowadays), it would actually be rather similar to aiming a pistol (depending on whether it was configured for absolute or relative positioning).
(* 4 lbs doesn't sound like a lot, I know, but remember that you'd need to hold it horizontally, putting the center of gravity out away from your hand. Try holding your laptop in such a way, and see how quickly your arm gets tired.)
The original post specifically wanted a device for reading, so he wouldn't have a PDA also. Besides, a cellphone can replace all the functions of a PDA that you don't want a big screen for.
...because the screen is always too small (in terms of both physical size and resolution). Instead, if I wanted a device to be used for reading, I'd get an ebook reader instead. They're bigger and the new ones have "electronic ink" displays, which are (much) easier on the eyes for reading, and give much better battery life because they only draw power when updating the image.
Yep.
Yes there is: it has the wrong interface.
Ditto.
Except for the interface.
Now, here's what really ought to happen: divide up the hardware by interface instead of by function. Stop putting storage and transceivers (e.g. cellular, wifi) in all the devices; instead put that stuff on a brick (without a display) that I can leave in my pocket, and then give me a dumb terminal-like touchscreen (that's as thinner than a PDA), a headset, and maybe a calculator watch-like device for when the touchscreen is unnecessary. Then hook it all together with Bluetooth or wires or something. That's how "convergence" should be!
It didn't get the weird phrasing, i.e. "what is the sum of" instead of "add" or "+." Figuring out the former is a much more difficult natural language processing problem.
Well, your first question fooled it (probably due to the unusual phrasing), but Google can already answer your second one.
One that was brainwashed by growing up using Ti calculators in school.