Just because you admit you copied someone, it doesn't mean the someone will let you continue doing it.
I'm not saying that I know whether Apple is right or wrong in doing this, but whether they freely acknowledge that someone else created the Aqua look doesn't change anything
Sometimes I just wonder if we would be able to save 50million/. users 30s each typing out 'partners', and a few dozen writing posts like the above and moderators' time in giving them points, if the editors who approve the posts could spend 30s changing the link themselves? Hell, they always have time to tag on a witty comment after the post anyway!
OK, so many of you here have been saying you'd like to pay, you don't really want to rip off your fav. artists. Now here's your chance. It'd be interesting to have a poll say 2mths after the fee is introduced to see how many of you here really DO pay. Or will you have a new reason you don't want to pay?
but I trust them insofar as I know that if they ever abused that trust with anyone, they'd lose business faster than a fried chicken
outlet selling a rat.
Well, did you read their TOS? They explicitly reserve the right to give out your information to 3rd parties. So maybe they're truthful about it unlike some other sites, but I don't trust a site that feels the need to know so much personal information about you, and also want to give it away to strangers.
Fans DO cool the cpu and warm your room. Given that computers run in summer in for several months each year, I don't think that's a good thing.
---
Re:I'm Sure the Chinese Will Love This....
on
Norway Bans Spam
·
· Score: 1
Hrm. You have some good points, but I would hope that people would be able to differentiate between commercial email (selling things) and political emails. Of course, this still leaves out things like 'forward this email to 20 ppl and MS will send you $200' type chain mails.
Some good points, but
DVDRAM is part of the DVD spec, DVDRW is not. Both have been out for at least 3-4 years, but prices for units are still way too high. I mean, look at the way manufacturers are still pushing faster CDRW drives to the public. There doesn't seem to be any plans to make a writable DVD unit cheap enough to be standard equipment.
Seeing the new multi-layer CDRWs they're trying to introduce to the market, I think we face a very real chance that DVDRAM/RW will only ever be used by studios and such.
The average web'master' can't even write HTML nowadays, or that's what you'd think looking at websites owned by large corps. If they can't even put alt text in images, how can we expect them to author in keyboard navigation?
One professional developer once said to me something along the lines of "it's a GUI, you're supposed to use a mouse". Gee I hate developers without RSI...
Why do we need flash anyway? Am I going to be convinced to buy your product because you made me DL a few MB of flashing bright colors and animations?
They are not 'charging for the right to link them', but charging for the right to link to their articles.
At the moment we have sites that don't allow linking by using changing urls like www.site.com/00,1002450,303,5029,3025.html where the stupid number changes every week or something. Other sites have meta commands that stop search engines indexing them.
All that has changed is that you can pay them to keep their stupid URL constant for however long if you want to link to them.
I think this is more like a burglar knocking on your door asking you if it's unlocked, then knocking on your windows and asking you if any of them are unlocked.
You can choose not to answer the question. (drop the packets)
Given how affordable and common DVD RAM is in the marketplace, or for that matter just DVD, I wonder how many decades it will be before we have access to THIS tech.
So what happened to that holographic storage that was supposed to be coming 'any day now'
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not saying that I know whether Apple is right or wrong in doing this, but whether they freely acknowledge that someone else created the Aqua look doesn't change anything
---
No, we're not missing anything. They don't mention thicknesses, and there are only 8 bits to the byte.
square inch != cubed inch.
300Gb = 37.5GB
---
ROM carts are superior to CDs. They chose those for N64 because they have quick access and don't need to be loaded into memory each time you use it.
The other makers chose CDs for lower manufacturing costs (which they didn't pass on to YOU).
N64 failed because it was over a year late compared to the PS and Saturn.
Maybe you think all the ROMs in your PC is aging tech too now?
---
Sometimes I just wonder if we would be able to save 50million /. users 30s each typing out 'partners', and a few dozen writing posts like the above and moderators' time in giving them points, if the editors who approve the posts could spend 30s changing the link themselves? Hell, they always have time to tag on a witty comment after the post anyway!
---
OK, so many of you here have been saying you'd like to pay, you don't really want to rip off your fav. artists. Now here's your chance. It'd be interesting to have a poll say 2mths after the fee is introduced to see how many of you here really DO pay. Or will you have a new reason you don't want to pay?
---
Well, did you read their TOS? They explicitly reserve the right to give out your information to 3rd parties. So maybe they're truthful about it unlike some other sites, but I don't trust a site that feels the need to know so much personal information about you, and also want to give it away to strangers.
---
Fans DO cool the cpu and warm your room. Given that computers run in summer in for several months each year, I don't think that's a good thing.
---
Hrm. You have some good points, but I would hope that people would be able to differentiate between commercial email (selling things) and political emails. Of course, this still leaves out things like 'forward this email to 20 ppl and MS will send you $200' type chain mails.
---
VA on behalf of the shareholders (owners) of VA, doesn't that sorta mean that you're suing someone on behalf of themselves?
---
Your points
4) Just because it's tape doesn't mean it's not digital. random access, etc are not what makes a media 'digital'.
5) Sure, but both copies will still only play on YOUR HDTV set. That's the whole point. The actual HDTV set is encrypted, you can't share tapes.
6) Because average Joe Consumer still has no way to record HDTV signals on any other media.
---
Some good points, but
DVDRAM is part of the DVD spec, DVDRW is not. Both have been out for at least 3-4 years, but prices for units are still way too high. I mean, look at the way manufacturers are still pushing faster CDRW drives to the public. There doesn't seem to be any plans to make a writable DVD unit cheap enough to be standard equipment.
Seeing the new multi-layer CDRWs they're trying to introduce to the market, I think we face a very real chance that DVDRAM/RW will only ever be used by studios and such.
---
Like Office2k, corps and the like will get non-annoying versions that don't require this registration process. Thus, it will not stop non compliance.
This thing seems to be targeted at retail versions only, probably aimed at mum and dad who used to borrow the disc from a friend
IT savvy ppl will of course go and copy a corp version...
---
We already have that. We call it a scanner.
---
that DVDRAM and DVDRW will never ever become cheap and commonplace?
---
Yeah, that or you could just uninstalled it via the normal control panel...
---
The average web'master' can't even write HTML nowadays, or that's what you'd think looking at websites owned by large corps. If they can't even put alt text in images, how can we expect them to author in keyboard navigation?
One professional developer once said to me something along the lines of "it's a GUI, you're supposed to use a mouse". Gee I hate developers without RSI...
Why do we need flash anyway? Am I going to be convinced to buy your product because you made me DL a few MB of flashing bright colors and animations?
---
"Linux is better than Windows"
"Linux is better than Macs"
"Oh cool, I can create a graphical startup, just like in Windows!"
huh?
---
would I be circumventing the said color blindness gene, which is patented? Then could they make it illegal to use the cure?
---
unless they have a pacemaker or are on a life support machine.
---
They are not 'charging for the right to link them', but charging for the right to link to their articles.
At the moment we have sites that don't allow linking by using changing urls like www.site.com/00,1002450,303,5029,3025.html where the stupid number changes every week or something. Other sites have meta commands that stop search engines indexing them.
All that has changed is that you can pay them to keep their stupid URL constant for however long if you want to link to them.
---
I think this is more like a burglar knocking on your door asking you if it's unlocked, then knocking on your windows and asking you if any of them are unlocked.
You can choose not to answer the question. (drop the packets)
---
What is 22yards in metres?
---
Given how affordable and common DVD RAM is in the marketplace, or for that matter just DVD, I wonder how many decades it will be before we have access to THIS tech.
So what happened to that holographic storage that was supposed to be coming 'any day now'
---
sue the US Patent office next
---
Why write off your investment when you have a say whether the deal goes thru?
---