Um, except the benchmark is a JS only benchmark, so the performance of the *JPEG* library, or any other frameworks seems unlikely to come into play.
Anyway, regardless of how Safari gets its speed, Safari is faster -- If QT had a faster decoder or whatever i doubt people would say "opera appears faster, but that's just because of the library"
Yes but a big part of the laws involved means that the company *must* be notified -- otherwise a typo could cost a company a lot of money.
So if company gets told that there is some old arbitrary page on their website saying something that is incorrect then they can correct it. Occasionally a company may be compelled to provide a service or product at the advertised price to a customer, but if they have placed notives indicating the error there is a reasonable chance that they would not have a legal responsibility to do that.
Oh, and as far as the fine goes, do a conversion to $US by more-or-less dividing by 2... Conceivably $US3000 might be considered unreasonable
Versus iceWM you mean?
Seriously I believe gnome and KDE offer good and bad features... I just wish i could find a environment that had only bad features... then i could install it on my brothers computer:)
--Oliver
the mplayer people say that there method is extremely simple, so it is possible, however unlikely, that Kiss implemented it in the same way, development logs would easily show this, however if they did just copy it we'd end up seeing it go from no subs, to mplayer formed subs in a single commit or something...
The only way we could know for sure would be to see the CVS/[insert source archive system here] logs to see whether they were developed all at once by KISS (implying they stole) or whether it built up over time...
It all boils down to monopoly power really...
In NZ we have three major net providers
Telecom - Used to be state-owned, still have the largest coverage, capital, etc. They charge $30-40 for 128k cable, and you then pay ISP fees to use it, which despite there being many ISPs is a flat charge of around $30, pretty much everywhere, limited to 10gig international traffic
Orcon - Fairly small (relatively) and serve primarily businesses. They provide DSL that isn't purchased through Telecom, unlike telecom there's is somewhat unlimited, still slow however.
Finally Saturn - NZs only cable company, Wellington, and most of Christchurch are covered, and maybe auckland? they provide all things cable (net, phone, and TV) and with phone+net the total cost is slightly less than DSL, at 256kbps, yay!(note: sarcasm), oh and that's also capped to 10gig
You're not being shafted, in New Zealand our ADSL cost NZ$70 a month, for 10gig of traffic, oh, and thats only 128kbps, or 256kbps cable for the same price, after that its 20cents a meg...
Well from this history: http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/historycdr.htm l
We can see that we've had publicly available burners since prior to 1995...
As for the patent itself it seems to argue that it doesn't require any special mastering program, which it does, if it's been merged into the shell it's still there, and looking at it, it would require a similarly set up computer at the other end... So it's incompatible with a standard CDR... even if its not, the process of squirrelling away the interface should not be patentable (this would be like patenting the layout of buttons on a calculator).. tough IANAL...
I don't see why you, or anyone else for that matter thinks this is unreasonable. MS isn't charging their users anything for using MSN on their client, banner adds inside it cover the costs(ICQ does the same, and so i image does AIM). They are merely charging third party clients such as Trillian for the use of their network. Remember Trillian does cost money, so users have already chosen to pay money to use it. Effectively trillian is running a rival to MSN, except
1) They make money,
2) It doesn't cost them anything.
Now I agree that this hits the open source clients (i use kopete), but that's just an unfortunate side-effect. They are effectively doing what Trillian does, although they don't make any money they are still giving away something that does not belong to them.
--Oliver
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Um, except the benchmark is a JS only benchmark, so the performance of the *JPEG* library, or any other frameworks seems unlikely to come into play.
Anyway, regardless of how Safari gets its speed, Safari is faster -- If QT had a faster decoder or whatever i doubt people would say "opera appears faster, but that's just because of the library"
The big problem with colour management is that professional designs need access to Pantone colours -- and those have to be licensed
Yes but a big part of the laws involved means that the company *must* be notified -- otherwise a typo could cost a company a lot of money.
So if company gets told that there is some old arbitrary page on their website saying something that is incorrect then they can correct it. Occasionally a company may be compelled to provide a service or product at the advertised price to a customer, but if they have placed notives indicating the error there is a reasonable chance that they would not have a legal responsibility to do that.
Oh, and as far as the fine goes, do a conversion to $US by more-or-less dividing by 2... Conceivably $US3000 might be considered unreasonable
Versus iceWM you mean? Seriously I believe gnome and KDE offer good and bad features... I just wish i could find a environment that had only bad features... then i could install it on my brothers computer :)
--Oliver
the mplayer people say that there method is extremely simple, so it is possible, however unlikely, that Kiss implemented it in the same way, development logs would easily show this, however if they did just copy it we'd end up seeing it go from no subs, to mplayer formed subs in a single commit or something...
The only way we could know for sure would be to see the CVS/[insert source archive system here] logs to see whether they were developed all at once by KISS (implying they stole) or whether it built up over time...
You're not being shafted, in New Zealand our ADSL cost NZ$70 a month, for 10gig of traffic, oh, and thats only 128kbps, or 256kbps cable for the same price, after that its 20cents a meg...
NZ$70 is about 35->40 USD
Well from this history: http://www.roxio.com/en/support/cdr/historycdr.htm l
We can see that we've had publicly available burners since prior to 1995...
As for the patent itself it seems to argue that it doesn't require any special mastering program, which it does, if it's been merged into the shell it's still there, and looking at it, it would require a similarly set up computer at the other end... So it's incompatible with a standard CDR... even if its not, the process of squirrelling away the interface should not be patentable (this would be like patenting the layout of buttons on a calculator).. tough IANAL...
So a big foam clue bat would be a LART? coolies... Now to find one New Zealand :)
Cheers for that,
Oliver
Ok, I've heard it a million times, but still do not know exactly what it means, what does 'lart' mean?
I don't see why you, or anyone else for that matter thinks this is unreasonable. MS isn't charging their users anything for using MSN on their client, banner adds inside it cover the costs(ICQ does the same, and so i image does AIM). They are merely charging third party clients such as Trillian for the use of their network. Remember Trillian does cost money, so users have already chosen to pay money to use it. Effectively trillian is running a rival to MSN, except 1) They make money, 2) It doesn't cost them anything. Now I agree that this hits the open source clients (i use kopete), but that's just an unfortunate side-effect. They are effectively doing what Trillian does, although they don't make any money they are still giving away something that does not belong to them. --Oliver