It may very well be Nick's problem if Apple can demonstrate to the court that he knew he was receiving trade secrets through improper means (e.g., asking someone to break an NDA). The fact that he specifically asked for people to pass on anonymously things that "they weren't supposed to hear" could certainly go a long way in demonstrating this.
Google "trade secret third party liability" for more info...
Well, while I don't agree with them being quite so agressive, the suit claims they have sent letters already warning him against disclosing their trade secrets, so it's gone past the "talking about it" stage.
That said, I don't see why a rumor site publishing information so soon before the product release date would cause that much damage to revenue. Seems like a fine line between protecting your trade secrets and squashing fans of your products who are desperate to know what the Next Big Thing will be.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't know of any law that protects journalists from revealing sources - it's traditionally been more a result of integrity (and wanting to ensure that future sources will confide in you and not your competition) that a journalist protects the source of the information they publish. Also, the article says they're suing for "unspecified damages" in addition to the C&D and revealing his sources.
There's also the issue of trade secrets, which means it's not merely an issue of free speech/free press. As far as I understand, if the court thinks Nick actively encouraged people to divulge trade secrets he might be in some trouble. Of course, I'd prefer someone with some real legal expertise would chime in and correct me if I've got it wrong.
You can get a stylish PC case. You can put an OS on your PC that works, and provided that you know what you're doing and configure it like you should, it will be just as functional as your Mac-based system...
I think you touched on an important point: provided that you know what you're doing and configure it. It's not that OSX is stylish and functional, it's that it's stylish and functional without having to mess with it. You can make other products work, but they don't come out of the box with the same level of functionality and polish that Apple (usually) provides.
It was a panel truck, so not huge, but certainly a lot larger and heavier than the Sentra I was driving. Probably not a good idea to have let one of those barrel into me, regardless of whose fault it would have been.
I once had a truck driver and his passenger bouncing a red laser into my eye off of my rear view mirror as I was driving down the road!! Unfortunately they didn't have a "how's my driving" sticker and their tag was so crud-encrusted I couldn't make out the number. I would've loved to have been able to tell the FHP exactly who to go nail though - it's very scary when you're driving along, minding your own business, and all of a sudden are literally seeing red. Lucky for me, the afterimage only lasted a couple seconds and there was no (apparent) lasting damage.
Bah! Those all had graphics. Sit them down in front of a Commodore 64 with a copy of Zork on a 5.25" floppy. Nine times out of ten, you'd go into a dark room and get eaten by a grue, but that 10th time when you figure out how to get one step farther before going into a dark room and getting eaten by a grue? That really made those hours and hours all worth it!
Wouldn't a moon-based launch only be about 1/6th more doable? Still, I think you're right - travel through the solar system would be easier if we could establish a safe, reliable moon base first. Though, I don't know if the savings from launching from the moon outweigh the cost of building an assembly and launch complex on the moon in the first place.
If your imagination is so poor that it's so difficult for you to come up with a story that can entertain a 3-year-old, you probably should die childless.
As an off-topic tip, have you tried printing to a pdf instead of saving the page? I don't know if it meets your requirements (do you need to still be able to get to the HTML or images?) but it might be worth looking into.
Back on topic, I agree with your comment about Camino's cookie management. I'd love for Safari to have a better method of management than what it's currently got.
The plasma coils can handle the strain just fine. The real problem is all the stress on the primary EPS manifold. But by adjusting the phase discriminators to a setting of 0.29 you can funnel the extra energy through the secondary transducers and out the lateral sensor array in a stream of coherent anti-gravitons, thus disrupting the energy field that's slowing the probe and allowing it to continue unhindered. And you call yourselves engineers...
If only we had the technology to use this as a front-end to some kind of housecleaning robots. You could get thousands upon thousands of teenagers to pay you to do your housework! Why people enjoy monotony when it's disguised as a game, I don't understand. Maybe because it's optional monotony...
That's funny, I don't remember being required to buy anything with my last iPod firmware upgrade. And please, do tell, how is this next firmware update going to "cripple" my iPod? Oh, I get it - you're trying to make it sound like I'm being treated poorly as a customer because someone isn't giving away free new features.
If Apple "just gave away anything useful" then Apple wouldn't be in business anymore, and I wouldn't be able to have any of Apple's useful products. I think that, for the most part, Apple does a decent job balancing support for existing users and charging for the latest and greatest new features. Problem is, there's a rather vocal percentage of the/. crowd seems to feel the need to attack anything they percieve as popular or mainstream. You like your player better? Fine, I honestly could care less. I didn't buy an iPod to impress you, I bought one because it matched the feature set I was shopping for. Try to keep in mind that your preferred feature set isn't the same as everyone else's, and if you're really that happy with your iRiver then quit being so smug and enjoy your music.
...ten years on windows is still the easiest most intuitive and compatible. although I've only ever tried fed linux as an alternative...
Hooray for unsubstantiated claims! If you've only ever tried one alternative, how do you know Windows is still the easiest most intuitive and compatible OS? It could be that it's easiest to use for you because you've been using it and not another product. Or it could be that it's actually not the easiest to use, you just haven't tried enough alternatives to know.
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It may very well be Nick's problem if Apple can demonstrate to the court that he knew he was receiving trade secrets through improper means (e.g., asking someone to break an NDA). The fact that he specifically asked for people to pass on anonymously things that "they weren't supposed to hear" could certainly go a long way in demonstrating this.
Google "trade secret third party liability" for more info...
Well, while I don't agree with them being quite so agressive, the suit claims they have sent letters already warning him against disclosing their trade secrets, so it's gone past the "talking about it" stage.
That said, I don't see why a rumor site publishing information so soon before the product release date would cause that much damage to revenue. Seems like a fine line between protecting your trade secrets and squashing fans of your products who are desperate to know what the Next Big Thing will be.
I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't know of any law that protects journalists from revealing sources - it's traditionally been more a result of integrity (and wanting to ensure that future sources will confide in you and not your competition) that a journalist protects the source of the information they publish. Also, the article says they're suing for "unspecified damages" in addition to the C&D and revealing his sources.
There's also the issue of trade secrets, which means it's not merely an issue of free speech/free press. As far as I understand, if the court thinks Nick actively encouraged people to divulge trade secrets he might be in some trouble. Of course, I'd prefer someone with some real legal expertise would chime in and correct me if I've got it wrong.
You can get a stylish PC case. You can put an OS on your PC that works, and provided that you know what you're doing and configure it like you should, it will be just as functional as your Mac-based system...
I think you touched on an important point: provided that you know what you're doing and configure it . It's not that OSX is stylish and functional, it's that it's stylish and functional without having to mess with it. You can make other products work, but they don't come out of the box with the same level of functionality and polish that Apple (usually) provides.
It was a panel truck, so not huge, but certainly a lot larger and heavier than the Sentra I was driving. Probably not a good idea to have let one of those barrel into me, regardless of whose fault it would have been.
I once had a truck driver and his passenger bouncing a red laser into my eye off of my rear view mirror as I was driving down the road!! Unfortunately they didn't have a "how's my driving" sticker and their tag was so crud-encrusted I couldn't make out the number. I would've loved to have been able to tell the FHP exactly who to go nail though - it's very scary when you're driving along, minding your own business, and all of a sudden are literally seeing red. Lucky for me, the afterimage only lasted a couple seconds and there was no (apparent) lasting damage.
Bah! Those all had graphics. Sit them down in front of a Commodore 64 with a copy of Zork on a 5.25" floppy. Nine times out of ten, you'd go into a dark room and get eaten by a grue, but that 10th time when you figure out how to get one step farther before going into a dark room and getting eaten by a grue? That really made those hours and hours all worth it!
As for looking forward to the future, the French would say: "The more things change, the more things stay the same."
Except they'd probably say it in French.
It's the rule that says you have to wait until the kid in front of you steps off the bottom of the slide before you push off the top.
The real problem is, where are we going to find sea bass large enough to attach it to? And are they ill-tempered enough?
You mean I can read the data on a smart card just by holding it in front of a bright light?
Is that Slashdot or Backslashdot?
I hear that'll make your mind's eye go blind
Wouldn't a moon-based launch only be about 1/6th more doable? Still, I think you're right - travel through the solar system would be easier if we could establish a safe, reliable moon base first. Though, I don't know if the savings from launching from the moon outweigh the cost of building an assembly and launch complex on the moon in the first place.
Do you have a source for this quote? I'm not trying to troll, I'm genuinely curious...
If your imagination is so poor that it's so difficult for you to come up with a story that can entertain a 3-year-old, you probably should die childless.
As an off-topic tip, have you tried printing to a pdf instead of saving the page? I don't know if it meets your requirements (do you need to still be able to get to the HTML or images?) but it might be worth looking into. Back on topic, I agree with your comment about Camino's cookie management. I'd love for Safari to have a better method of management than what it's currently got.
Wasn't the X-wing graphic in Vader's targeting computer also CG?
I'd MUCH rather watch that "whiny melodrama" in AOTC than all the slashdot posts whining about it.
You can, you just can't see it.
The plasma coils can handle the strain just fine. The real problem is all the stress on the primary EPS manifold. But by adjusting the phase discriminators to a setting of 0.29 you can funnel the extra energy through the secondary transducers and out the lateral sensor array in a stream of coherent anti-gravitons, thus disrupting the energy field that's slowing the probe and allowing it to continue unhindered. And you call yourselves engineers...
If only we had the technology to use this as a front-end to some kind of housecleaning robots. You could get thousands upon thousands of teenagers to pay you to do your housework! Why people enjoy monotony when it's disguised as a game, I don't understand. Maybe because it's optional monotony...
So "mindless and unquestioning" is not flaming, but "fucktard apple fanboy" is? I guess it's a fine line...
Seriously, fuck you.
Kudos. I was on the fence before, but that part really swayed me to your side of the argument.
That's funny, I don't remember being required to buy anything with my last iPod firmware upgrade. And please, do tell, how is this next firmware update going to "cripple" my iPod? Oh, I get it - you're trying to make it sound like I'm being treated poorly as a customer because someone isn't giving away free new features.
/. crowd seems to feel the need to attack anything they percieve as popular or mainstream. You like your player better? Fine, I honestly could care less. I didn't buy an iPod to impress you, I bought one because it matched the feature set I was shopping for. Try to keep in mind that your preferred feature set isn't the same as everyone else's, and if you're really that happy with your iRiver then quit being so smug and enjoy your music.
If Apple "just gave away anything useful" then Apple wouldn't be in business anymore, and I wouldn't be able to have any of Apple's useful products. I think that, for the most part, Apple does a decent job balancing support for existing users and charging for the latest and greatest new features. Problem is, there's a rather vocal percentage of the
...ten years on windows is still the easiest most intuitive and compatible. although I've only ever tried fed linux as an alternative...
Hooray for unsubstantiated claims! If you've only ever tried one alternative, how do you know Windows is still the easiest most intuitive and compatible OS? It could be that it's easiest to use for you because you've been using it and not another product. Or it could be that it's actually not the easiest to use, you just haven't tried enough alternatives to know.