And if you really care about the content you can then pay to get it, and if not, nothing of value is lost.
Plus, if you actually pay for the content, you are an actual customer, not the product being sold. Additionally, as a paying customer, you have a stronger legal basis if the company in question sells, leaks or loses your personal data.
Don't forget that the internet itself is a storage device. Assuming speed-of-light transfer (that's pessimistic) and 10Gbps transfer rates, we have a storage of about 33 kbit per kilometer of cable.
What Apple did was merely to see a business opportunity. They did not invent any enabling technology. They just figured: hey, if people can use a small form-factor computer without a keyboard, that would be useful. Then they hyped that idea.
I do not think patents should be rewarded for these business opportunities. It obstructs the free market. Patents should, at most, be rewarded for the underlying hard science.
I was just going to post the same. I bet it happens here and there (not necessarily by Amazon themselves, but perhaps by independent authors/sellers), but how serious is it compared to the problems Google has with SEO?
Hmm, I know it sucks, but couldn't they just ask the user to select _all_ files related to the movie? And then figure out which one is the movie and which one is the subtitles?
Perhaps we can now start a project to match new popular music against this database, and figure out that all new music is just a shameless copy/basic rewrite of existing classical music.
The solution is simple: we should all have our computers infected with a botnet, so that we can put the blame on it whenever we have copyright-infringing material on our computers.
It's not as easy as plugging in a thumb drive or popping an extra disk in there. If it really were, do you think the rocket scientists at NASA would have thought about that before they shot a billion-dollar robot into the sky?
You're forgetting that scientists have this insuppressible itch to try to find increasingly complicated methods to do everyday-life things.
Perhaps the piece of code responsible for replacing the firmware is heavily reviewed by a group of smart mathematicians. Security protocols requiring multiple round-trips are probably not used extensively, but perhaps they are used for setting up a session efficiently. Possibly the thing uses one-time passwords to control access. Etc. etc.
And I forgot, please do not give me any lock-in, walled gardens, crystal prisons, DRM, UEFI or any of that crap the other vendors try to shove up my rear end.
You're right, but that would be speculative. Also, don't forget about possible migration of data from the old to the new system. That may take considerable effort too. And testing (the old system has gone through 10+ years of testing).
200k isn't something you're going to rewrite in a couple of weeks. I think the absolute maximum you could get (for one very skilled person) would be about 5k-10k per week. Rewriting would take on the order of half a year.
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You should have used the wheel as an example. Car analogies work best.
It's the combination of elements that Apple has (design)patented. See here:
http://peanutbuttereggdirt.com/e/custom/Apple-vs-Samsung-1-Hardware-Design.html
And if you really care about the content you can then pay to get it, and if not, nothing of value is lost.
Plus, if you actually pay for the content, you are an actual customer, not the product being sold. Additionally, as a paying customer, you have a stronger legal basis if the company in question sells, leaks or loses your personal data.
Don't forget that the internet itself is a storage device. Assuming speed-of-light transfer (that's pessimistic) and 10Gbps transfer rates, we have a storage of about 33 kbit per kilometer of cable.
Are they going to forbid the internet?
I'm not sure about the flip-flops part, but one day, space travel will be pretty much like this.
Ecuador should just change its ambassador to a blond guy who looks like Assange.
What Apple did was merely to see a business opportunity. They did not invent any enabling technology. They just figured: hey, if people can use a small form-factor computer without a keyboard, that would be useful. Then they hyped that idea.
I do not think patents should be rewarded for these business opportunities. It obstructs the free market. Patents should, at most, be rewarded for the underlying hard science.
Touchscreens still suck. There is no tactile feedback, and my fingers are too big for the virtual keyboards on smartphones.
I was just going to post the same. I bet it happens here and there (not necessarily by Amazon themselves, but perhaps by independent authors/sellers), but how serious is it compared to the problems Google has with SEO?
I don't want clouds! I want sun!
Is the trademark "Sun" free already?
And Linux might mean *gasp* learning something new.
The only way out is to make Linux better than OSX. So, start coding...
Hmm, I know it sucks, but couldn't they just ask the user to select _all_ files related to the movie? And then figure out which one is the movie and which one is the subtitles?
Or in other words: never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
Perhaps we can now start a project to match new popular music against this database, and figure out that all new music is just a shameless copy/basic rewrite of existing classical music.
The solution is simple: we should all have our computers infected with a botnet, so that we can put the blame on it whenever we have copyright-infringing material on our computers.
QR codes are a scam by domain registrars to sell domain names with cute-looking QR codes.
It's not as easy as plugging in a thumb drive or popping an extra disk in there. If it really were, do you think the rocket scientists at NASA would have thought about that before they shot a billion-dollar robot into the sky?
You're forgetting that scientists have this insuppressible itch to try to find increasingly complicated methods to do everyday-life things.
Perhaps the piece of code responsible for replacing the firmware is heavily reviewed by a group of smart mathematicians.
Security protocols requiring multiple round-trips are probably not used extensively, but perhaps they are used for setting up a session efficiently.
Possibly the thing uses one-time passwords to control access.
Etc. etc.
Dear Acer,
And I forgot, please do not give me any lock-in, walled gardens, crystal prisons, DRM, UEFI or any of that crap the other vendors try to shove up my rear end.
Thanks!
Me
I'm not so sure. According to MS, it will be the year of the notebook with a stand to keep the screen from falling flat on the table.
Nice to see Apple losing their prime advantage: looks.
Now we just have to wait until Intel comes with DIY phones.
Actually, I don't understand why electronics manufacturers don't do this all the time. It would make devices much more resistant against water.
You're right, but that would be speculative. Also, don't forget about possible migration of data from the old to the new system. That may take considerable effort too. And testing (the old system has gone through 10+ years of testing).
200k isn't something you're going to rewrite in a couple of weeks. I think the absolute maximum you could get (for one very skilled person) would be about 5k-10k per week. Rewriting would take on the order of half a year.
Next question: is that a "human" or a "robot"?