Does he have anything against Apple Computer and/or Steve Jobs?
He is basically interested in breaking the 'lock' of 'locked' devices.
If he is focusing on Apple, it may be because Apple and Steve Wonder have released products after products which are completely locked in with them or some other entity like AT&T?? You know... just may be?
>> Watch. When every other person you pass on the street has iPhone, you hillbillys with your half screen half keypad dumb phones will be the laughingstock.
Ah! You mean Sheeple? Laughing at me? I dont mind that.
Right on target. I know very few people who own authentic XP or Office. Microsoft is losing a lot of money there. At the same time, India can really be a very good possibility for Linux desktops to succeed. They are trying to kill two birds at once.
And if they succeed, for India it would be a golden opportunity lost.
So, you call your player (i)Pod automatically, eh? Like there is no other brand out there? And also, you can not listen to the same thing on your computer? Gimme a break. Podcast is the worst of the lot.
Test confirms the generally known (but debatable) points: 1. Not many can detect the improvement of higher kbps 2. Expensive earbuds are way better than the default ones.
But what do you do with this fanboi? "One of the two people who expressed a preference for Apple's product told us "It seemed like I got better kick from the bass."" I hope he was completely deaf.
TFA says "A person familiar with the firm's internal investigation says they may have grabbed as many as 200 million card numbers all told from four years' records."
"due to the fun way the patent system works, introducing that kind of prior art to the USPTO for it to review the validity of Verizon's VoIP patents will take quite a bit of time and effort."
Oh okay. And I thought one of the basic ideas behind creating a dedicated body to examine and grant patents was to create a way to examine all important aspects. Clearly, prior art is not one of them - even if "the concepts in those patents were clearly discussed and published by others prior to the patent being filed. Berninger says that the ideas were discussed at the VoIP forum meeting in 1996 and published in January of 1997. The patents in question were filed after that."
"Should universities (or groups within universities) be allowed to hold patents and intellectual property while at the same time gaining donations and grants as an educational institution -- or for that matter government funds?"
Why not? I would prefer a university to hold a pattern any day than any corporate - at least, they are letting other NPOs and universities use it without charging.
In fact, give them more funding to do more research. Let them grab patterns before corporates get there first.
(IMHO) A circle represents SCO's response to IBM on any one given point.
The number inside the circle represents IBM's claim.
The arrow (including the line) represents SCO's (so called) response.
e.g. the (187) -> (45) in the middle of the image means in response to IBM's claim 187, SCO is redirecting the court to SCO's response to IBM in IBM's claim 45. and so forth.
Its actually a pretty darn interesting ways to represents SCO's bullshit.
well said. Finding a nice well-paying job in NYC has never been a problem for me. But (my) problem is that 90% of them is in financial sector. For a lot of people I know, its very appealing. But not for me. I have wall street firms. For them, technology dept is nothing but a big expenditure, and they treat techies like it. If you are not in business side of work, you are nobody in these financial firms. And some of these business users can be really nasty and snobbish towards tech - technology is just supporting their business.
In short, if you want to work on cutting edge technology and satisfy the nerd/geek in you, don't bother looking at NYC. But if you are the type who wants to move from technology to business (finance of course), and don't mind second rate treatment meanwhile, NYC can be heaven.
well said. The only problem I see as a potential user is this - a water cooler is free, while this site has three tiers out of which two are paid. And that means there are three water coolers - I can use only one if I am not a paying user.
This site may have a good potential, but I am already disappointed.
But if I get it right, all they did was just to show thumbnails of pics tagged with 'wii' from Flickr, actual link still points to flickr. I guess this is not different from a lot of other websites and blogs doing the same using Flickr APIs. Not sure if Yahoo was in the wrong here.
Thanks for that. Yes, I do use CC and will continue to. But then, isn't there a conflict? You 'agreed' to grant them 'rights' to use your images, but the CC you opt for may prevent them.
And no, FUD was not my intent. I was merely replying to somebody's objection over Google's T&C by just pointing out that Yahoo has even more of it.
Oh yeah??? At least they are not going to modify your content. Now check this out from Yahoo: 8. PUBLIC CONTENT POSTED TO YAHOO! (b) With respect to Content you elect to post for inclusion in publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Groups or that consists of photos or other graphics you elect to post to any other publicly accessible area of the Service, you grant Yahoo! a world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish such Content on the Service solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted, or, in the case of photos or graphics, solely for the purpose for which such photo or graphic was submitted to the Service. This licence exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and shall be terminated at the time you delete such Content from the Service.
(c) With respect to all other Content you elect to post to other publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo! the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
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If he is focusing on Apple, it may be because Apple and Steve Wonder have released products after products which are completely locked in with them or some other entity like AT&T?? You know... just may be?
It may well be an iPod - but the one that needs 2 year contract with AT&T!! Fuck your Sweet ipod then.
Yes. If they go and sleep with somebody else, they are going to suck. "It will suck." "It will not work".
I see this as definitely a good thing.
BTW, Magnatune with Amarok is far better deal then iTunes. Just in case somebody is interested.
But do not let me spoil the party - let Apple whoring begin.
How about sheep-people? Does that work for you, sir?
>> Watch. When every other person you pass on the street has iPhone, you hillbillys with your half screen half keypad dumb phones will be the laughingstock. Ah! You mean Sheeple? Laughing at me? I dont mind that.
Right on target. I know very few people who own authentic XP or Office. Microsoft is losing a lot of money there. At the same time, India can really be a very good possibility for Linux desktops to succeed. They are trying to kill two birds at once. And if they succeed, for India it would be a golden opportunity lost.
So, you call your player (i)Pod automatically, eh? Like there is no other brand out there? And also, you can not listen to the same thing on your computer? Gimme a break. Podcast is the worst of the lot.
So, now you can not even see which one was moderated funny? Thanks for confirming my belief that this is example of blatant fanboism.
Only in a Mac Land, the trolls are funny. Way to go Mac Moderators.
Also, in that case, the probability of that user never returning to your site tends to 100%.
Test confirms the generally known (but debatable) points:
1. Not many can detect the improvement of higher kbps
2. Expensive earbuds are way better than the default ones.
But what do you do with this fanboi? "One of the two people who expressed a preference for Apple's product told us "It seemed like I got better kick from the bass."" I hope he was completely deaf.
Nothing to do with MS in this.
MS will be affected only when the wall street firms stop using MS Excel, and that may not happen in my lifetime unfortunately.
TFA says "A person familiar with the firm's internal investigation says they may have grabbed as many as 200 million card numbers all told from four years' records."
Gets better, doesn't it?
What's new here? This was available back in 2005 if I am not wrong.
"due to the fun way the patent system works, introducing that kind of prior art to the USPTO for it to review the validity of Verizon's VoIP patents will take quite a bit of time and effort."
Oh okay. And I thought one of the basic ideas behind creating a dedicated body to examine and grant patents was to create a way to examine all important aspects. Clearly, prior art is not one of them - even if "the concepts in those patents were clearly discussed and published by others prior to the patent being filed. Berninger says that the ideas were discussed at the VoIP forum meeting in 1996 and published in January of 1997. The patents in question were filed after that."
"Should universities (or groups within universities) be allowed to hold patents and intellectual property while at the same time gaining donations and grants as an educational institution -- or for that matter government funds?"
Why not? I would prefer a university to hold a pattern any day than any corporate - at least, they are letting other NPOs and universities use it without charging.
In fact, give them more funding to do more research. Let them grab patterns before corporates get there first.
Er.. correction... Ignore the first line (excluding IMHO)...
(IMHO)
A circle represents SCO's response to IBM on any one given point.
The number inside the circle represents IBM's claim.
The arrow (including the line) represents SCO's (so called) response.
e.g. the (187) -> (45) in the middle of the image means in response to IBM's claim 187, SCO is redirecting the court to SCO's response to IBM in IBM's claim 45. and so forth.
Its actually a pretty darn interesting ways to represents SCO's bullshit.
Typo correction - Second line should read "I hate wall street firms."
well said. Finding a nice well-paying job in NYC has never been a problem for me. But (my) problem is that 90% of them is in financial sector. For a lot of people I know, its very appealing. But not for me. I have wall street firms. For them, technology dept is nothing but a big expenditure, and they treat techies like it. If you are not in business side of work, you are nobody in these financial firms. And some of these business users can be really nasty and snobbish towards tech - technology is just supporting their business.
In short, if you want to work on cutting edge technology and satisfy the nerd/geek in you, don't bother looking at NYC. But if you are the type who wants to move from technology to business (finance of course), and don't mind second rate treatment meanwhile, NYC can be heaven.
well said. The only problem I see as a potential user is this - a water cooler is free, while this site has three tiers out of which two are paid. And that means there are three water coolers - I can use only one if I am not a paying user.
This site may have a good potential, but I am already disappointed.
Very convenient! I was not aware of this.
But if I get it right, all they did was just to show thumbnails of pics tagged with 'wii' from Flickr, actual link still points to flickr. I guess this is not different from a lot of other websites and blogs doing the same using Flickr APIs. Not sure if Yahoo was in the wrong here.
Thanks for that. Yes, I do use CC and will continue to. But then, isn't there a conflict? You 'agreed' to grant them 'rights' to use your images, but the CC you opt for may prevent them.
And no, FUD was not my intent. I was merely replying to somebody's objection over Google's T&C by just pointing out that Yahoo has even more of it.
Oh yeah???
At least they are not going to modify your content. Now check this out from Yahoo:
8. PUBLIC CONTENT POSTED TO YAHOO!
(b) With respect to Content you elect to post for inclusion in publicly accessible areas of Yahoo! Groups or that consists of photos or other graphics you elect to post to any other publicly accessible area of the Service, you grant Yahoo! a world-wide, royalty free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish such Content on the Service solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting the specific Yahoo! Group to which such Content was submitted, or, in the case of photos or graphics, solely for the purpose for which such photo or graphic was submitted to the Service. This licence exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and shall be terminated at the time you delete such Content from the Service.
(c) With respect to all other Content you elect to post to other publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo! the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sub-licensable right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
Yeah, we all know how effective CAN SPAM has been. My mailbox receives only 1000+ more spam emails a week now then before.