Similarly, there was a report that video games make 50% of their sales in the first month and 25% of their sales in the first week with 8% as pre-orders.
That's in no small part because the video game stores/publishers don't keep older product on the shelves, unless it sold extremely well in that first month.
A product won't make more sales over its lifetime if its lifetime is artificially cut short.
They'd be as easily hacked into as the CCTV cameras that they can theoretically replace, while offering up less personal data in the process. They certainly seem more safe in terms of public privacy to me.
(Not to say that all CCTV cameras could/should be replaced by these systems; it's not a substitute for loss prevention cameras in a retail store, for example.)
Just try and actually use all that bandwidth and disk space. See what happens then. Purely marketing bull crap. I haven't gotten near the bandwidth usage, but I've had no problem with my disk space riding right below my cap for months now (since I keep adding more content when the space increases).
Whether they would search you without permission would be a more interesting question. I think the police are well within their rights to pull you over and ask why you're emitting radiation. After all, the constitution doesn't prevent us from being stopped and asked questions.
But there's also nothing obligating us to answer. And the fourth amendment (in theory) keeps them from searching the vehicle without a warrant.
IBM "allowed people to clone their architecture"? Hardly. They tried tooth and nail to have the reverse-engineered BIOSes declared illegal and pulled from the market. Fortunately, they failed, establishing the principle (in the court of law, if not of engineering) of black-box reverse engineering.
Word doesn't guarantee spacing and formatting across printer drivers under Windows; it's hardly fair to expect OpenOffice to magically offer that feature!
Frankly, that depends on how you define "work". From context, I thought he was only talking about the work in question using GPL code, and not all work by that person.
And frankly, after the myriad senseless RIAA rulings, I don't put any stock in what a judge isn't likely to do.
Not their entire product portfolio, no. But if one product uses a GPL library, that entire product becomes GPLed. Even if that library was used without any changes.
There's a difference between "optional when building a disc" and "optional when building a player".
If something is optional for the discs, they'll use it when it's helpful, and not otherwise.
If something is optional in the hardware, then those people mastering the discs can't use it, because they can't rely on it being present. In that case, it might as well not be in the spec.
Non-transferable is one thing. But why should someone have their patent revoked because they don't have the resources to market it? Then companies, etc. have no incentive to work out a deal with the patent holder; they simply have to wait for the patent to expire due to lack of use, and then can produce the product regardless.
Maybe I'm just unlucky in terms of hardware, but it's a hell of a lot easier to get whatever hardware the base OS missed (wireless card, PDA over USB and Bluetooth, phone over Bluetooth, 3D accelerator, sound card under both OSS and ALSA) up and running under Windows than it is under Linux.
It doesn't help any when there's institutions that offer CS programs but not SE; that leads to that blurring you mentioned. Half the faculty at my school focus on the theoretical aspects, and the other half are focused on applied development.
Oftentimes, you never know what you'll get until you show up on the first day of class.
Burning it as Blu-Ray- or HD-DVD-compliant video isn't a valid long-term solution, though; you lose significant amounts of resolution (the resulting disc's resolution would be as small as 1/16th of the original video, if it was a 4000-line source).
It's possible that they could be used for raw data storage, but if we're talking about movies whose size is in the multiples of terabytes, juggling 100+ discs per movie is just a pain.
If it's like most sales taxes, it would theoretically apply to online purchases too but nobody would bother to report it with their annual income taxes like they're supposed to.
But their volume is so high that it's cheaper to replace the occasional disc than it is to pay the extra materials and mailing costs for cardstock envelopes.
33 cents a can? Ouch. Remind me not to move to... uh, wherever you are. (Locally in southeastern Michigan, if you buy the 24-packs on sale the cost is under 21 cents a can, plus refundable deposit; I suppose if you included the deposit, that's reasonable, but otherwise...)
If you read the link, you would see that it allows the machine to bypass normal Sleep and go directly to "Safe Sleep" aka Hibernation. (The default—Sleep then Safe Sleep—would be akin to the Hybrid Sleep mode. But it can be configured otherwise.)
Knowing of the product is a far cry from knowing that infringes. The latter, they'd likely have to acquire, disassemble, and study the product before they could know that it infringes (depending on just what the patent in question was, of course).
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They're not using it to "push" QuickTime; iTunes uses QuickTime to play music/video, so it's a required component.
Now, the recent Safari auto-update antics, that's pushing.
That's in no small part because the video game stores/publishers don't keep older product on the shelves, unless it sold extremely well in that first month.
A product won't make more sales over its lifetime if its lifetime is artificially cut short.
First sale doctrine says you're free to do whatever you want with the physical disc; it doesn't say anything about the licensed content therein.
They'd be as easily hacked into as the CCTV cameras that they can theoretically replace, while offering up less personal data in the process. They certainly seem more safe in terms of public privacy to me. (Not to say that all CCTV cameras could/should be replaced by these systems; it's not a substitute for loss prevention cameras in a retail store, for example.)
Whether they would search you without permission would be a more interesting question. I think the police are well within their rights to pull you over and ask why you're emitting radiation. After all, the constitution doesn't prevent us from being stopped and asked questions. But there's also nothing obligating us to answer. And the fourth amendment (in theory) keeps them from searching the vehicle without a warrant.
IBM "allowed people to clone their architecture"? Hardly. They tried tooth and nail to have the reverse-engineered BIOSes declared illegal and pulled from the market. Fortunately, they failed, establishing the principle (in the court of law, if not of engineering) of black-box reverse engineering.
Word doesn't guarantee spacing and formatting across printer drivers under Windows; it's hardly fair to expect OpenOffice to magically offer that feature!
Frankly, that depends on how you define "work". From context, I thought he was only talking about the work in question using GPL code, and not all work by that person. And frankly, after the myriad senseless RIAA rulings, I don't put any stock in what a judge isn't likely to do.
On a $5 app, they're about 5-7% of the purchase price. I don't think that's "a very small percentage".
Not their entire product portfolio, no. But if one product uses a GPL library, that entire product becomes GPLed. Even if that library was used without any changes.
If you have to choose your hardware around the OS, that hardly counts as simplicity.
That's why I often print to PDF, then print the PDF...
There's a difference between "optional when building a disc" and "optional when building a player". If something is optional for the discs, they'll use it when it's helpful, and not otherwise. If something is optional in the hardware, then those people mastering the discs can't use it, because they can't rely on it being present. In that case, it might as well not be in the spec.
Non-transferable is one thing. But why should someone have their patent revoked because they don't have the resources to market it? Then companies, etc. have no incentive to work out a deal with the patent holder; they simply have to wait for the patent to expire due to lack of use, and then can produce the product regardless.
Maybe I'm just unlucky in terms of hardware, but it's a hell of a lot easier to get whatever hardware the base OS missed (wireless card, PDA over USB and Bluetooth, phone over Bluetooth, 3D accelerator, sound card under both OSS and ALSA) up and running under Windows than it is under Linux.
What chains were those other two stores, though? B. Dalton is owned by B&N, so they probably would have closed the store anyways.
The command-line-only bit is completely normal.
It doesn't help any when there's institutions that offer CS programs but not SE; that leads to that blurring you mentioned. Half the faculty at my school focus on the theoretical aspects, and the other half are focused on applied development. Oftentimes, you never know what you'll get until you show up on the first day of class.
Burning it as Blu-Ray- or HD-DVD-compliant video isn't a valid long-term solution, though; you lose significant amounts of resolution (the resulting disc's resolution would be as small as 1/16th of the original video, if it was a 4000-line source).
It's possible that they could be used for raw data storage, but if we're talking about movies whose size is in the multiples of terabytes, juggling 100+ discs per movie is just a pain.
If it's like most sales taxes, it would theoretically apply to online purchases too but nobody would bother to report it with their annual income taxes like they're supposed to.
But their volume is so high that it's cheaper to replace the occasional disc than it is to pay the extra materials and mailing costs for cardstock envelopes.
33 cents a can? Ouch. Remind me not to move to... uh, wherever you are. (Locally in southeastern Michigan, if you buy the 24-packs on sale the cost is under 21 cents a can, plus refundable deposit; I suppose if you included the deposit, that's reasonable, but otherwise...)
If you read the link, you would see that it allows the machine to bypass normal Sleep and go directly to "Safe Sleep" aka Hibernation. (The default—Sleep then Safe Sleep—would be akin to the Hybrid Sleep mode. But it can be configured otherwise.)
Knowing of the product is a far cry from knowing that infringes. The latter, they'd likely have to acquire, disassemble, and study the product before they could know that it infringes (depending on just what the patent in question was, of course).