Disabled people would have a car specially modified to suit them, with the information codes on their licence describing the modifications necessary for them to drive. Someone with one arm would probably use a knob on the steering wheel, so code 40 would probably be used, possibly along with code 78 because they would be incapable of using a manual transmission.
It would be the same if he had a similar question on bluetooth.. bluetooth ?.. not everyone knows or understands what it is or does.. But if your marketing a device that has the technology, then you should, and you should be able to explain why it's good, and why it's on your device.
If they were advertising the fact that their product supported bluetooth, then sure, I'd expect the director of marketing to be able to explain what can be done with that bluetooth support. Just saying 'it's got bluetooth' is an example of very poor marketing.
In Sensia's case, the only reason the word 'Linux' came up was because the CEO spoke out of turn. The correct answer to any questions about the underlying software would be something along the lines of "We don't want to talk about that right now". From what I can tell from the article, there was no real reason for them to admit that it ran anything other than their own proprietary software.
Whether or not the marketing director could have employed better damage control after the CEO opened his mouth is open to debate, but look at it this way: the device is now being talked about on Slashdot. It could conceivably have been a stroke of marketing genius.
In this case, I don't think the stigma is so much attached to the word/trademark 'Linux', more tied to the use of a desktop PC operating system in a consumer device. Let's face it, if they were marketing an internet radio based on Windows, we'd all run a mile.
Private company has to sue you and has to win first. Govt agency does not have to. Unless you are to be jailed, they can issue fines and command your isp without bothering with courts.
The government can hand you all the fines it wants, but if you refuse to pay they eventually have to go through the legal system. It's the same for private companies, who can send you bills, and can offer legal settlements but have to involve the courts if you don't cooperate. Not defending yourself won't get you off the hook in either case.
and command your isp without bothering with courts.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't the whole point of this article that the French government couldn't pass this act until it had some form of judicial oversight written into it?
How is being sued by a private company without your knowledge any better than what is being proposed here? In both cases the actual punishment is handed out by a court, and in both cases it is 'backed by law'.
Private companies work better than governments when you have a choice over which private company you use. Unfortunately you can't choose which private company you would like to be sued by.
However, Apple wants control, proprietary formats give it control.
First of all, there are no patent requirements for distributing AAC content. It is more free than MP3 in this regard.
Second, although the codecs are patent-encumbered, none of these patents are owned by Apple. Some of the patent owners are Apple's competitors in the mobile phone market. I don't see how a proprietary format not owned by Apple gives them any control at all.
True, but maybe Apple thinks it can compete with your camera phone in usability terms. If your phone camera is a pain to use but your iPod camera is easy to use, then you're going to reach for your iPod camera first.
You do need Symbian approval, although they are more relaxed than Apple are. You can't load an application without signing it first. Free certificates are available, but they're tied to the device's IMEI number, you can't automatically generate them, and a message warning that you're running a developer version of your program is shown at install time.
Paid certificates are available, but they're expensive and you have to adhere to a set of testing guidelines.
None of this is as restrictive as Apple's regime, but it's not nearly as open as developing for a PC.
The Welsh have a greater claim to be the natives of England than the English do, given that the Anglo-Saxons invaded from Europe around the 5th century AD and displaced the Brythonic tribes. Hell, even the Romans were in England before the English.
The same is true for Scotland as well. The native Picts, most likely also Brythonic, were well established by the time the Gaels (known to the Romans as the Scotti) arrived from Ireland, but were eventually assimilated into Gaelic society.
Are you allowed to bring in dedicated phone chargers that just happen to use the mini/micro USB port, or are they forbidden too? How about phones that charge using a dedicated charging port? Or are you simply not allowed to charge your phones at work?
If you can prove that your WEP was indeed hacked, then the perpetrators could be convicted under two counts of the Computer Misuse Act rather than one.
On the other hand, do you really think the courts will consider "I have an open wireless network, it must have been somebody else" a valid argument?
I had the same issue once, while trying to install Ubuntu. It hadn't recognised my video card so it had defaulted to 640x480. I couldn't reach the 'Next' button to proceed with the installation.
I eventually found the Alt-Mouse shortcut and dragged the buttons into view, but I really object to the idea that I should have been aware of non-discoverable shortcuts before I'd even started using the OS. Especially as I wasn't necessarily in a position to Google the problem. If an installer program is going to default to 640x480 if it can't find the video card drivers (which, let's face it, isn't unlikely on Linux), then it had better be bloody well usable at that resolution.
Windows doesn't have this problem. Its installation procedure is designed to be used at a low resolution.
No WYSIWYG, and to be quite honest nothing else matters. LaTeX is great for academia and the scientific community, but if you try to suggest that a business abandons MS Word in favour of Kile, you will be laughed out of the room based on the lack of WYSIWYG alone.
That used to work when ISP-provided kit came with no security set up as standard, but I don't think that's the case any more. Unsecured networks are becoming rarer to the point of being non-existent, with the exception of paid-for services such as BTOpenZone and The Cloud, and most have at least WEP, with WPA becoming more common.
Regardless of the weak nature of WEP, it does clear up the moral argument about whether or not it's okay to use it.
I don't understand your bad car analogy, so I will substitute my own bad car analogy.
Subscribing to an unlimited mobile data package and expecting it to come with unlimited SMS is like buying a full set of tyres for your car and expecting them to come with a steering wheel cover.
But what's really ridiculous is that at least some carriers charge separately for "text" and "data". You can get an unlimited data plan on AT&T - but it doesn't include text! wtf? That's like your ISP saying you have unlimited download bandwidth except for.txt files, which will cost you an extra $5 per month.
It's not ridiculous. The method of sending an SMS over a GSM network is completely different to the method of sending IP data. Compare SMS and GPRS.
Life and Liberty are two 'unalienable rights' that the US Declaration of Independence holds to be self evident, yet the US has the death penalty and a prison system.
The majority has the power to take these things away, and exercises it regularly.
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Disabled people would have a car specially modified to suit them, with the information codes on their licence describing the modifications necessary for them to drive. Someone with one arm would probably use a knob on the steering wheel, so code 40 would probably be used, possibly along with code 78 because they would be incapable of using a manual transmission.
If they were advertising the fact that their product supported bluetooth, then sure, I'd expect the director of marketing to be able to explain what can be done with that bluetooth support. Just saying 'it's got bluetooth' is an example of very poor marketing.
In Sensia's case, the only reason the word 'Linux' came up was because the CEO spoke out of turn. The correct answer to any questions about the underlying software would be something along the lines of "We don't want to talk about that right now". From what I can tell from the article, there was no real reason for them to admit that it ran anything other than their own proprietary software.
Whether or not the marketing director could have employed better damage control after the CEO opened his mouth is open to debate, but look at it this way: the device is now being talked about on Slashdot. It could conceivably have been a stroke of marketing genius.
In this case, I don't think the stigma is so much attached to the word/trademark 'Linux', more tied to the use of a desktop PC operating system in a consumer device. Let's face it, if they were marketing an internet radio based on Windows, we'd all run a mile.
Possibly Arabic would have been a better example than Hebrew.
The government can hand you all the fines it wants, but if you refuse to pay they eventually have to go through the legal system. It's the same for private companies, who can send you bills, and can offer legal settlements but have to involve the courts if you don't cooperate. Not defending yourself won't get you off the hook in either case.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but wasn't the whole point of this article that the French government couldn't pass this act until it had some form of judicial oversight written into it?
Why not just swap WPA keys with your neighbours?
How is being sued by a private company without your knowledge any better than what is being proposed here? In both cases the actual punishment is handed out by a court, and in both cases it is 'backed by law'.
Private companies work better than governments when you have a choice over which private company you use. Unfortunately you can't choose which private company you would like to be sued by.
First of all, there are no patent requirements for distributing AAC content. It is more free than MP3 in this regard.
Second, although the codecs are patent-encumbered, none of these patents are owned by Apple. Some of the patent owners are Apple's competitors in the mobile phone market. I don't see how a proprietary format not owned by Apple gives them any control at all.
True, but maybe Apple thinks it can compete with your camera phone in usability terms. If your phone camera is a pain to use but your iPod camera is easy to use, then you're going to reach for your iPod camera first.
You do need Symbian approval, although they are more relaxed than Apple are. You can't load an application without signing it first. Free certificates are available, but they're tied to the device's IMEI number, you can't automatically generate them, and a message warning that you're running a developer version of your program is shown at install time.
Paid certificates are available, but they're expensive and you have to adhere to a set of testing guidelines.
None of this is as restrictive as Apple's regime, but it's not nearly as open as developing for a PC.
The Welsh have a greater claim to be the natives of England than the English do, given that the Anglo-Saxons invaded from Europe around the 5th century AD and displaced the Brythonic tribes. Hell, even the Romans were in England before the English.
The same is true for Scotland as well. The native Picts, most likely also Brythonic, were well established by the time the Gaels (known to the Romans as the Scotti) arrived from Ireland, but were eventually assimilated into Gaelic society.
Are you allowed to bring in dedicated phone chargers that just happen to use the mini/micro USB port, or are they forbidden too? How about phones that charge using a dedicated charging port? Or are you simply not allowed to charge your phones at work?
If you can prove that your WEP was indeed hacked, then the perpetrators could be convicted under two counts of the Computer Misuse Act rather than one.
On the other hand, do you really think the courts will consider "I have an open wireless network, it must have been somebody else" a valid argument?
I had the same issue once, while trying to install Ubuntu. It hadn't recognised my video card so it had defaulted to 640x480. I couldn't reach the 'Next' button to proceed with the installation.
I eventually found the Alt-Mouse shortcut and dragged the buttons into view, but I really object to the idea that I should have been aware of non-discoverable shortcuts before I'd even started using the OS. Especially as I wasn't necessarily in a position to Google the problem. If an installer program is going to default to 640x480 if it can't find the video card drivers (which, let's face it, isn't unlikely on Linux), then it had better be bloody well usable at that resolution.
Windows doesn't have this problem. Its installation procedure is designed to be used at a low resolution.
No WYSIWYG, and to be quite honest nothing else matters. LaTeX is great for academia and the scientific community, but if you try to suggest that a business abandons MS Word in favour of Kile, you will be laughed out of the room based on the lack of WYSIWYG alone.
That used to work when ISP-provided kit came with no security set up as standard, but I don't think that's the case any more. Unsecured networks are becoming rarer to the point of being non-existent, with the exception of paid-for services such as BTOpenZone and The Cloud, and most have at least WEP, with WPA becoming more common.
Regardless of the weak nature of WEP, it does clear up the moral argument about whether or not it's okay to use it.
Glad you asked!
I don't understand your bad car analogy, so I will substitute my own bad car analogy.
Subscribing to an unlimited mobile data package and expecting it to come with unlimited SMS is like buying a full set of tyres for your car and expecting them to come with a steering wheel cover.
It's not ridiculous. The method of sending an SMS over a GSM network is completely different to the method of sending IP data. Compare SMS and GPRS.
You mean buggalo.
Which works out at around 9.57443388 x 10^-7 AU when you actually check the preview.
9.57443388 Ã-- 10^-7 astronomical units.
I'd be interested to know what your preferred solution to this problem would be:
The PM is actually appointed by the Queen. The fact that the Queen always appoints the leader of the largest party is a constitutional convention.
Life and Liberty are two 'unalienable rights' that the US Declaration of Independence holds to be self evident, yet the US has the death penalty and a prison system.
The majority has the power to take these things away, and exercises it regularly.