It would be equally unreasonable to demand that a student buy a particular model./blockquote?And it would be EXTREMELY unreasonable to demand that a student drop a hundred bucks on a CRIPPLED model.
Damn.. the FBI needs some better web designer. The site looks like crap and could cause a seizure.
Ah, I can see it now. The guy who ran the torrent site sues the FBI for putting up a webpage that caused him to have a seizure, and he wins twenty million dollars in damages...
How useful will this be, really? Say you want to do some banking online. Even if you've replaced your Cat5 with diamond cable, you still need to go through other routers, providing multiple chances for people to intercept your transmissions. Unless everyone is going to install a diamond line from their homes to their bank, what use is this, really?
I don't. As far as I know, the XP left start menu bar doesn't have a scrolly bar on it. I find that to be ghastly. I've had enough fun looking at all of the stupid bloat that people have put in there - and with me always thinking that was for things you used OFTEN AND COMMONLY (I *really* doubt you use that 'Anti-Virus' thing or the 'Free AOL!' thing very often), this just provides more reason for people to cram loads of crap in there. Wouldn't it just be easier to get rid of the second bar and save some screen space? It isn't like anyone uses the Programs folder anymore. They just cram every little thing into the root menu!
Perhaps if TPB was hosting anything that actually infringed upon Apple's copyright. But they only maintain a bunch of torrent files, and unless you're trying to imply that the filename or the checksum are infringing upon Apple's copyright, they have no case.
As I said, if there was anything that could be done, it would have been done already.
I think one can be sued under the DMCA for facilitiating copyright infrigement or something stupid like that if you're running a tracker. But as TPB has pointed out in several of their other replies to legal threats, they're Swedish and they have sane copyright law. There is nothing Apple can do to shut them down, short of haxx0ring their boxen and rm -rf'ing, otherwise Dreamworks or someone would have gotten them shut down by now.
The only difference is that people do not use Google products to run their companies. Sure, the suits may like Google Maps for finding their meetings, but they can live without those. If the HR server goes down, no one gets paid, and the rioting starts...
Microsoft officials told BetaNews they are trying 'to find a way that companies can implement these technologies in code that would get distributed with open source products, but the source code wouldn't be published itself.'"
Because not being allowed to distribute code is totally opensource.
If we give it another year or two, we may find that an easy way to update your cellphone's OS will be neccessary. If viruses are being released for these sorts of things, devs will release patches.
And how cool would it be to download the latest version of Snake onto your brand-new phone?
I don't know if I'd really consider it a choice. You need to go through all of the effort of getting a Nero license, downloading it, and installing it.
Although I haven't checked the download out, I'll bet you that they only support a very finite number of distros. Probably just RedHat and SuSE, and they'll just provide an RPM. The people who don't use RPM get screwed. It isn't as convinient.
Perhaps Nero won't be like this, but that's the general experience I have with all of the closed-source stuff companies try to provide me with. It takes a significant amount of effort to get it to work on anything besides what they deem 'Supported'. It just isn't the same.
If you're after a tabletop game, I'd suggest Warhammer 40k. It's set in the distant future, when the Imperium of Man is going up against all sorts of weird alien/evil creates.
You get to choose an army (you can pick from space marines, bugs, eldars, necrons, and a handful of other things), then you buy a whole load of models, assemble them, then paint them. After you have a sexxxellent army painted up, you find yourself an opponent and fight with a complex-as-all-hell rule system.
These games can take anywhere from two hours to days, depending on how many models you and your opponent take to the field.
The game is pretty involving. The only downside is that the models/books are *very* expensive. The prices have always been a point to moan about on forums dedicated to it.
Alternatively, you could play one of GamesWorkshop's similar games, Warhammer Fantasy or a Lord of the Rings game. Fantasy is more medievil (nights, skavens, dragonsessessess, and the like), and LOTR speaks for itself.
Whatever happened to learning for learning's sake? What ever happened to just expanding your own mind, and your own understanding of the world?
Because you see, the world is all about money. And spending millions of dollars to get kids to 'learn for the sake of learning' when they are constantly trying to skip out of school just doesn't work. Not only is it a waste of time and money on everyone's part, but it doesn't put food on their tables or pay the rent.
Learning is great, but when we're trying to force it down people's throats when they don't want it, it causes problems.
This article is written by SharePro of ES5 -- the same fellow who was threatening to post pictures and personal information about the bloke who found the 'remote file deletion' utility in the ES5 p2p program awhile back.
Take whatever this man says with a grain of salt and call me in the morning...
Your beetle example doesn't tranfer over to this very well. See, when you buy the car, you're getting a car from the seller - something that was totally owned by the seller. There were no contracts with Volkswagon. In this case, Blizzard has a contract with the user, and they have provided (broken, as it seems) provisions for transfering it. Blizzard is involved, Volkswagon isn't.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Al Queda probably uses GPG or some other form of strong encryption in their e-mails.
What the hell do you mean, finally? The last update to Woody was April 16th of this year.
Unless you know what you're talking about, please don't try to troll. It just makes you look bad.
Ah, I can see it now. The guy who ran the torrent site sues the FBI for putting up a webpage that caused him to have a seizure, and he wins twenty million dollars in damages...
1 millifootballfield == .122173591659265 Space Shuttle's of Fuel.
Then it isn't for us Americans, now is it? It may be able to move Brits or Canadians around, but certainly not us.
And I reject your rejection of the US's rejection of Canada's rejection! So ha!
How useful will this be, really? Say you want to do some banking online. Even if you've replaced your Cat5 with diamond cable, you still need to go through other routers, providing multiple chances for people to intercept your transmissions. Unless everyone is going to install a diamond line from their homes to their bank, what use is this, really?
I don't. As far as I know, the XP left start menu bar doesn't have a scrolly bar on it. I find that to be ghastly. I've had enough fun looking at all of the stupid bloat that people have put in there - and with me always thinking that was for things you used OFTEN AND COMMONLY (I *really* doubt you use that 'Anti-Virus' thing or the 'Free AOL!' thing very often), this just provides more reason for people to cram loads of crap in there. Wouldn't it just be easier to get rid of the second bar and save some screen space? It isn't like anyone uses the Programs folder anymore. They just cram every little thing into the root menu!
Perhaps if TPB was hosting anything that actually infringed upon Apple's copyright. But they only maintain a bunch of torrent files, and unless you're trying to imply that the filename or the checksum are infringing upon Apple's copyright, they have no case.
As I said, if there was anything that could be done, it would have been done already.
I think one can be sued under the DMCA for facilitiating copyright infrigement or something stupid like that if you're running a tracker. But as TPB has pointed out in several of their other replies to legal threats, they're Swedish and they have sane copyright law. There is nothing Apple can do to shut them down, short of haxx0ring their boxen and rm -rf'ing, otherwise Dreamworks or someone would have gotten them shut down by now.
The only difference is that people do not use Google products to run their companies. Sure, the suits may like Google Maps for finding their meetings, but they can live without those. If the HR server goes down, no one gets paid, and the rioting starts...
Because not being allowed to distribute code is totally opensource.
Really, wtf are these people on?
If we give it another year or two, we may find that an easy way to update your cellphone's OS will be neccessary. If viruses are being released for these sorts of things, devs will release patches.
And how cool would it be to download the latest version of Snake onto your brand-new phone?
I don't know if I'd really consider it a choice. You need to go through all of the effort of getting a Nero license, downloading it, and installing it.
Although I haven't checked the download out, I'll bet you that they only support a very finite number of distros. Probably just RedHat and SuSE, and they'll just provide an RPM. The people who don't use RPM get screwed. It isn't as convinient.
Perhaps Nero won't be like this, but that's the general experience I have with all of the closed-source stuff companies try to provide me with. It takes a significant amount of effort to get it to work on anything besides what they deem 'Supported'. It just isn't the same.
If you read the blog post, you'll know that they didn't provide the source until the Miranda team shouted at them for violating the GPL.
They *did* change the source, silly. How do you think they managed to change everything that said PearPC to CherryOS?
There is a god. This guy was a bad slashdot troll, I'm telling you...
If you're after a tabletop game, I'd suggest Warhammer 40k. It's set in the distant future, when the Imperium of Man is going up against all sorts of weird alien/evil creates.
You get to choose an army (you can pick from space marines, bugs, eldars, necrons, and a handful of other things), then you buy a whole load of models, assemble them, then paint them. After you have a sexxxellent army painted up, you find yourself an opponent and fight with a complex-as-all-hell rule system.
These games can take anywhere from two hours to days, depending on how many models you and your opponent take to the field.
The game is pretty involving. The only downside is that the models/books are *very* expensive. The prices have always been a point to moan about on forums dedicated to it.
Alternatively, you could play one of GamesWorkshop's similar games, Warhammer Fantasy or a Lord of the Rings game. Fantasy is more medievil (nights, skavens, dragonsessessess, and the like), and LOTR speaks for itself.
Or since they don't make any money off of Acrobat, they could just, ya know, put it on their opensource site and let us take care of ourselves...
Learning is great, but when we're trying to force it down people's throats when they don't want it, it causes problems.
This article is written by SharePro of ES5 -- the same fellow who was threatening to post pictures and personal information about the bloke who found the 'remote file deletion' utility in the ES5 p2p program awhile back.
Take whatever this man says with a grain of salt and call me in the morning...
Your beetle example doesn't tranfer over to this very well. See, when you buy the car, you're getting a car from the seller - something that was totally owned by the seller. There were no contracts with Volkswagon. In this case, Blizzard has a contract with the user, and they have provided (broken, as it seems) provisions for transfering it. Blizzard is involved, Volkswagon isn't.
Sorry, but wouldn't a working key be part of what Blizzard sells in the store? I'm pretty sure the key is part of that game material.