"Because there aren't clear boundaries for what constitutes fair use and an original work"
Actually, that's pretty clear. It's a problem in how you have to defend the issue in court, but fair use isn't confusing. Fair use is also explicitly clear in that programs like VLC do not even get involved with copyright.
"accident", yes, that's it. Because VLC matches the terms of an HBO show.
Except in reality, where it's not an accident but straight up incompetence, which also doesn't prevent people from finding the link. It makes it *easier*. Need to find out if a file may be legitimate? Well, if it's blocked there's probably better chance that it is. Not only that, but now you can just view the DMCA claim to find your link.
okay, so you're only looking at "apple's total $$" and not "how much are they actually worth". Those are different. This isn't "market manipulation" or magic to show that Apple's value is (and has been) trending downwards and not upwards.
Having free cash just typically highlights how much tax avoidance is going on + company decision and has no true bearing on how well a company is actually doing. Which is why lots of free cash makes a company attractive for a buyout.
What part of the apple exception is that? Their sales hit a giant bubble and since then have gone on a slow but perpetual downhill. Growth is not strong, anymore. It's almost hilarious when people think a gigantic cash hoard is a sign of success, when all they did was got lucky with marketing.
MS makes false "positive move" towards investing in a company, company goes downhill. news at 11. It's a shame borders fell to that scheme, and amusing that facebook is on a downhill so fast. Usually it takes a while to go through a slow downhill while going out of business.
I don't think you understand phone sizes. Too big to hold is referring to functionality not "can you put it in your hand". The question is, can you palm a basketball? if so, this phone is fine. If you can't? I'd be guaranteeing that this phone is probably too big for one hand thumb operation.
So while I'm sure you can support a device of any size in your hand beyond what is reasonable, whether you can operate it 1 handed is another story altogether. Phone have been getting wider and wider, although apparently you think only people with enormous hands pick up phones or something.
However, not everyone can comfortably hold a 3.46" wide phone that is 6 inches high, as that begins to get unwieldy. It's not a "simply incapable" issue. The previous generation of phones was around 65mm wide (~2.5 inches) - So that is a pretty significant difference.
wha? His analogy was exactly correct, even the ratios are almost exact. 15/23 vs 4/6.3. By math alone, he basically made your analogy comment incorrect.
I'm not suggesting a 6.1" screen - I think it's too big to hold, but I will say that the 4.7" HTC one (larger than my previous HTC rezound/SGS/droid/razr) is visually a lot better than the 4" and smaller preceding phones, as referenced. However, even 4.7 is hard enough to use with one hand, which is a staple of most mobile devices - 6.1" would make that a guarantee in that it would be impossible to do so.
Once you have a larger size phone, it's really, really hard to go back. The difference in UI real estate and functionality is substantial.
Your nonsequitur, however, is not accurate. Nobody is implying you're putting a 23" monitor in your pocket, dumbass.
If anyone knows something about how to make a resilient private service, it's probably the TPB crew. Considering how strong the site is running even though countries around the world (namely the US) are going to great lengths trying to take it down.
yeah, in your imagination maybe. You can troll better than that. Remind me what nexus devices come with "Advertising widgets"? the play books app and/or play magazines app are not advertising widgets, they are functional.
you can't ban rooted phones from accessing exchange. Even the policy will not be able to prevent accepting the security settings merely because you're rooted.
Selling support works for a very large amount of software. Even *microsoft* does it. So your argument is invalid. Meanwhile, I can easily tell you why businesses want proprietary.
On a basic level it's an impulse fear/fear aversion to a lack of control. they think that OSS is going to get them sued, or that they can't control what happens with it so they may lose something.
Slashdot Mirror
"Because there aren't clear boundaries for what constitutes fair use and an original work"
Actually, that's pretty clear. It's a problem in how you have to defend the issue in court, but fair use isn't confusing. Fair use is also explicitly clear in that programs like VLC do not even get involved with copyright.
"accident", yes, that's it. Because VLC matches the terms of an HBO show.
Except in reality, where it's not an accident but straight up incompetence, which also doesn't prevent people from finding the link. It makes it *easier*. Need to find out if a file may be legitimate? Well, if it's blocked there's probably better chance that it is. Not only that, but now you can just view the DMCA claim to find your link.
okay, so you're only looking at "apple's total $$" and not "how much are they actually worth". Those are different. This isn't "market manipulation" or magic to show that Apple's value is (and has been) trending downwards and not upwards.
Having free cash just typically highlights how much tax avoidance is going on + company decision and has no true bearing on how well a company is actually doing. Which is why lots of free cash makes a company attractive for a buyout.
I disagree about apple. see: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/06/25/big-apple-bigger-google/
What part of the apple exception is that? Their sales hit a giant bubble and since then have gone on a slow but perpetual downhill. Growth is not strong, anymore. It's almost hilarious when people think a gigantic cash hoard is a sign of success, when all they did was got lucky with marketing.
MS makes false "positive move" towards investing in a company, company goes downhill. news at 11. It's a shame borders fell to that scheme, and amusing that facebook is on a downhill so fast. Usually it takes a while to go through a slow downhill while going out of business.
I'm fairly sure that the actual cost for an MRI is nowhere near 11k.
I agree - this is to a degree what 3.5" wide phones basically end up as - they are too big for thumbwork.
I don't think you understand phone sizes. Too big to hold is referring to functionality not "can you put it in your hand". The question is, can you palm a basketball? if so, this phone is fine. If you can't? I'd be guaranteeing that this phone is probably too big for one hand thumb operation.
So while I'm sure you can support a device of any size in your hand beyond what is reasonable, whether you can operate it 1 handed is another story altogether. Phone have been getting wider and wider, although apparently you think only people with enormous hands pick up phones or something.
However, not everyone can comfortably hold a 3.46" wide phone that is 6 inches high, as that begins to get unwieldy. It's not a "simply incapable" issue. The previous generation of phones was around 65mm wide (~2.5 inches) - So that is a pretty significant difference.
wha? His analogy was exactly correct, even the ratios are almost exact. 15/23 vs 4/6.3. By math alone, he basically made your analogy comment incorrect.
I'm not suggesting a 6.1" screen - I think it's too big to hold, but I will say that the 4.7" HTC one (larger than my previous HTC rezound/SGS/droid/razr) is visually a lot better than the 4" and smaller preceding phones, as referenced. However, even 4.7 is hard enough to use with one hand, which is a staple of most mobile devices - 6.1" would make that a guarantee in that it would be impossible to do so.
Once you have a larger size phone, it's really, really hard to go back. The difference in UI real estate and functionality is substantial.
Your nonsequitur, however, is not accurate. Nobody is implying you're putting a 23" monitor in your pocket, dumbass.
I find bing to continually be less accurate than even yahoo searches. That says a lot, considering yahoo searches are inaccurate.
what do you expect? it's bing. Since when did people believe a microsoft-based search is privacy friendly? "anonymous" is just a hilarious misnomer.
I realized that Napolitano is basically the Margaret Thatcher of the US. Hated, and people will be much happier when she's dead.
yeah, because that has a lot to do with their focus which is getting support with their data center plans. yeah, that must be it.
the amount of this article that has to do with android is somewhere around 0%.
that may be, but Napolitano didn't save any money. She increased costs substantially, caused economic turmoil for the country with the policies she supported, and spent over 200 million bucks on those scanners which have saved us approximately $0. Did I mention the amount of tourism lost because people were like "Fuck this country" over things like claiming we can randomly stop people in 3/4 of the country. You may think it's a TSA thing, but TSA and DHS go hand in hand. Plus DHS harassing the shit out of foreigners, as well.
So does that mean she's working gratis? sadly, no.
If anyone knows something about how to make a resilient private service, it's probably the TPB crew. Considering how strong the site is running even though countries around the world (namely the US) are going to great lengths trying to take it down.
57 was fermented whale semen (that's why it was green). Whatever floats your umm....algae, I guess.
yeah, in your imagination maybe. You can troll better than that. Remind me what nexus devices come with "Advertising widgets"? the play books app and/or play magazines app are not advertising widgets, they are functional.
you can't ban rooted phones from accessing exchange. Even the policy will not be able to prevent accepting the security settings merely because you're rooted.
how is having an icons in a folder = advertisement? they aren't even visible. that's not an advertisement, fool.
we're almost heading towards freefall. so, that's a yes.
nah.
this is just pre-acquisition movement, the same as nokia and every company that MS has ever done a big deal with. It'll be a few years.
this is hilarious.
why do they even have to bother with google or MS if they already have taps at the source?
the "Especially gamers" part has become less and less true with linux steam, android and other things on the way.
Selling support works for a very large amount of software. Even *microsoft* does it. So your argument is invalid. Meanwhile, I can easily tell you why businesses want proprietary.
On a basic level it's an impulse fear/fear aversion to a lack of control. they think that OSS is going to get them sued, or that they can't control what happens with it so they may lose something.