Whether this lock out is legal and how it is achieved is legal is a matter for the court.
well, what if that lockout was mandated by the record labels, and not Apple? Then why is Apple being sued for this? Apple has the superior design. Most people are happy with it, and its lockins/lockouts/limitations, some imposed by Apple and definitely some imposed by the RIAA.
Through the use of patents, Ford and Gillette can keep others from making replacement parts. i.e. the water pump on a Focus is a completely new design.
Or, Ford only authorizes the subcontractors that make the water pump to sell it through Ford dealer service shops for some period of time. Eventually, there will be a rebuilt Ford Focus water pump market, and it won't matter at that point, because you won't be able to buy a new Genuine Ford Focus water pump, but only a reconditioned one, even through a dealer.
The better way that the automakers do this is to design SSTs (Special Service Tools) that are required to install the part at some point. Think Torx screws (used to be you could only get the Torx-head drivers if you were a GM shop). Or, they single-source certain parts like heater hoses, etc., and refuse them to be sold outside of dealers or authorized mechanics.
hat said, I didn't really believe Microsoft had a monopoly during their antitrust trial days... consumers had the choice of MacOS, or BeOS, or Linx, etc. f
Except for the Mac, you had (still have to mostly) to buy a computer that had Windows pre-installed on it before you could use other OSs on them, and you paid for it whether you used it or not. It was not possible for IBM, for example, to sell x86-based AIX machines, for example, because they still would have paid Microsoft for the Windows license because it was an x86-based computer.
Yes, it is the asbestos (ok, particular kind of) *FIBERS* that are small enough that they can pass through cell walls and because they're inert, aren't really picked up by the immune system beforehand, either. Because they're so small, yet still glass (i.e., sharp), they then cause mechanical damage at the nanoscopic scale.
There is nothing to suggest that a macroscopic blob of glass will cause any problems whatsoever. Look at how long glass lasts in the environment, for example. It does not break down due to chemical actions (unless it's raining hydrofluoric acid).
And don't forget to factor in weird cubicle acoustics, you know, where you can hear someone's in-cube conversation 6 or 8 cubes away as if they're inside your head.
The Red Cross, as an organization, yes, is supposed to be color-blind, as it were. But military medics, wearing the Red Cross on White Background, are not Red Cross members, they're just medics. And if you're respecting the Geneva Conventions at that time, you don't shoot at them. Of course, that didn't stop medics from deliberately getting shot at (i.e., snipers) in every war.
Go into a US military hospital, and the main hallway will probably have plaques for CMH recipients, of whom more than a few were medics or corpsmen who did amazingly valiant things in the line of fire while carrying out their duties above and way beyond their job descriptions.
I'd be shocked if Google isn't moving hundreds of TB's of bandwidth a day at least. Their bandwidth and electrical fees must be unbelivable. But...doesn't Google pay for its internet connections like everyone else does? Hmm...methinksso. They probably already pay extra for extra double plus good connections to various points (but not up to the telcos' doors) that ensure availability of bandwidth and connectivity.
Google either goes out when it's spidering websites, or it waits for users to hit google.com.
Because the telco's don't own Google's access points (i.e., host their OC3 connections), the telcos are pissed?
No one is forcing the telcos to expand their infrastructure (except the cable companies). They are making a business investment, but why do they need to be guaranteed a profit in the current market?
Did this start because SBC bought AT&T, and now they own a good chunk of interstate network backbone?
Wild Weasels came to be during the Viet Nam war. Originally they were F105 Thunderchiefs fitted with the electronics necesary to sniff out and identify various air defence radars being used by the NVA (other F105s in the package carried bombs or Shrike missiles), and flew in before the rest of the attack package.
The F4G versions were developed in the latter stages of US involvement in Viet Nam, and were operational through until the early 1990's.
Nevada Air Guard had one of the few remaining units at the Reno airport. So that was 93-94 or so that I saw them there.
...which is why you get a job in the computer services department. Staff & academic research accounts are treated far differently than the accounts given to students.
The code to implement it could be rigorously analysed to identify ranges over which the inputs would be accepted and correct outputs given.
But, don't you still want to test it against inputs which aren't acceptable, to make sure that the code deals with the situation appropriately (throws a handled exception, etc)? So, you're still writing tests to verify expected inputs are handled correctly (i.e., return correct value), and incorrect inputs are handled gracefully.
Plus, unlike the phone, I don't have to call up and pay for some sort of external service (besides my computer) to actually get the digital photo where I can use it... How many camera phones let you hook up the phone to a USB or other interface and suck the phones off, vs having to e-mail the photos to yourself at $x.xx per photo?
No. Such phages have been used as a medical treatment in Russia and Eastern Europe for quite some time. There have been several popular press (Natl Geographic, SciAm, Discover) articles about the science behind them. They basically go out to a pond or other standing body of water, and bioassay the water to see what kills the bacteria they want killed. Then they try to reduce it to the active material (i.e., phage) that does it, and they go from there. It is suprisingly developed.
These are naturally occuring phages, not genetically engineered super bugs or whatnot. Of course, they are unpatentable in the US, so no one will research them here, although the patent would be unenforcable. "We go out to so-and-so pond, centrifuge the water, isolate phage EB517, dry it and package it into gelatin capsules". Well, just about any grad student could do the same thing.... No bioreactors required, etc.
The US way will be of course to identify a phage that attacks, say, E. Coli H:0157 (and ONLY Ec H:0157! There are too many other beneficial subtypes of E. coli in human guts that shouldn't be killed off...), and then try to do some genetic engineering to it to deliver not only the phage's package but also say a clusterbomb of penicillin or some other antibiotic, to make it "more effective". Then they could generalize from there and get a patent for using the phage for attacking E. Coli bacteria, or even for using phages as antibiotics in humans and livestock. That might get them around the lack of novelness of using phages against bacteria, which already happens in nature.
Yes, and then I think of all the other ones that offer little caveats in the small print on these so-called "price protections". The concept is sort of good in a retail environment, but if you went one day and filled your gas at $2.959/gal, and a couple of hours later, the price was down to $2.799/gal, do you think that if you go in with your receipt that the vendor is going to give you the difference back? Bah.
Some stores do it as a customer-friendly measure, but they leave themselves wiggle room, or have to have wiggle room in order to sell certain product lines, etc.
Lessee. OK, I have "unlimited" dialup. At about 1 MB/hr download rates, that's not too much fun. Remember when it used to cost extra to use a 14.4kbps modem vs 9600?
Now, I have 768kbps wireless SDSL, but there's still physical limits to how much I can download. But at least what I usually download daily (e-mail, AV updates, etc) is much faster than dialup.
If I wanted faster, then I'd have to move, but buying a T1 or higher dedicated line is always an option, too.
The telcos have in the past put on daily or monthly max download caps on DSL as well, which seems fine to me, except then they should not then get to market it as "unlimited" service. Just like "unlimited" DSL service that you are expected to "logout" when you're not using it or it logs you out after N hours of inactivity.
Hmm... I'd argue that at the time the only difference between the Unix "academics" and "hobbyists" was their location. Hobbyists worked at home, and the academics in their labs.
White, commercial cornish cross chickens are grown in big buildings. They live in/on their shit for 6-8 weeks. Doesn't matter if the chicken is going to KFC or to your grocery store. Fundamentally not very different at all. Unless you *KNOW* where the chicken you eat is coming from, despite whatever advertisements are on the packaging, you should assume that all of it, even that high-priced "free range" organic chicken is raised the same way.
At their designated day to meat their destiny, they're loaded up on the floor into a conveyer beltish device, and stuffed 6-8 at a time into a rack of cages. The cages are loaded onto a semitruck trailer.
Depending on the weather, some will die on the way to the plant (either too cold or too hot). Some will have broken legs (some of the chickens I caught had pretty soft bones), broken wings, bruises, etc. They're not treated all that gently.
When I caught chickens ('84-'87), you walked in, grabbed 3 birds (held them each by one leg) in each hand, and walked them up to the truck, where the loaders stuffed them into the cages on the truck. Sometimes the birds pissed you off (chicken wings flapping against your radius/ulna kind of hurts. have someone do it to you with a broomstick if you're a doubter), so you did some "inhumane" things to them. Yeah, I worked with a few bastards who did things like "hey, watch me step on this chicken's head. Isn't that funny?". Fuck that, at the very least, why are you taking the time to do that sick shit when there's 30,000 more birds to pack out?
Once at the plant, they're manually unloaded from the cages and hung onto the shackles of the processing machine. Part of that process sprays them off with water before dipping them into a tank of water with AC current in it to stun them, then their necks are cut by the machine (but the heads stay on, as they flap around much less than if their spinal cord is severed). For the smart ones that keep their necks out of the water and miss the knife, someone is there to cut it for them.
Next, they're dipped into hot bleachy water, and then they go into a drum plucker. The entrails are removed, the gizzard, heart and liver separated, and their shanks are removed. From there they either get cut into pieces, wrapped whole, or whatever else is deemed appropriate. Mechanical separator? Maybe...mmm chicken nuggets.
Sorry, I can't fault KFC anymore than I can fault Popeye's, Chick-Fil-A, McDonald's, Wendy's, or anyone else that sells chicken meat product. While KFC might contract with Perdue, Foster's, or whomever to get X tons of chicken meat a month, it's the GROWER and PROCESSOR who is responsible, not KFC.
But in an industry that goes through millions of animals a month, at a high rate, and is itself pretty hard on its employees, well...some bad things are going to happen.
Which is worse, Perdue locking all the emergency doors in its processing plants, prohibiting line workers from taking breaks (to the point where they just pee their pants), etc. (NC Perdue plant that caught on fire, where emergency exits were locked and several workers were killed because they couldn't get out...) or the occaisional chicken where someone gets all medieval on for some sick pleasure?
...and before that, nothing from the Republicans during Clinton's reigh was anything more than "not Clinton", to the point they actively tried to remove him from office.
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Whether this lock out is legal and how it is achieved is legal is a matter for the court.
well, what if that lockout was mandated by the record labels, and not Apple? Then why is Apple being sued for this? Apple has the superior design. Most people are happy with it, and its lockins/lockouts/limitations, some imposed by Apple and definitely some imposed by the RIAA.
Through the use of patents, Ford and Gillette can keep others from making replacement parts. i.e. the water pump on a Focus is a completely new design.
Or, Ford only authorizes the subcontractors that make the water pump to sell it through Ford dealer service shops for some period of time. Eventually, there will be a rebuilt Ford Focus water pump market, and it won't matter at that point, because you won't be able to buy a new Genuine Ford Focus water pump, but only a reconditioned one, even through a dealer.
The better way that the automakers do this is to design SSTs (Special Service Tools) that are required to install the part at some point. Think Torx screws (used to be you could only get the Torx-head drivers if you were a GM shop). Or, they single-source certain parts like heater hoses, etc., and refuse them to be sold outside of dealers or authorized mechanics.
hat said, I didn't really believe Microsoft had a monopoly during their antitrust trial days... consumers had the choice of MacOS, or BeOS, or Linx, etc. f
Except for the Mac, you had (still have to mostly) to buy a computer that had Windows pre-installed on it before you could use other OSs on them, and you paid for it whether you used it or not. It was not possible for IBM, for example, to sell x86-based AIX machines, for example, because they still would have paid Microsoft for the Windows license because it was an x86-based computer.
Yes, it is the asbestos (ok, particular kind of) *FIBERS* that are small enough that they can pass through cell walls and because they're inert, aren't really picked up by the immune system beforehand, either. Because they're so small, yet still glass (i.e., sharp), they then cause mechanical damage at the nanoscopic scale.
There is nothing to suggest that a macroscopic blob of glass will cause any problems whatsoever. Look at how long glass lasts in the environment, for example. It does not break down due to chemical actions (unless it's raining hydrofluoric acid).
And don't forget to factor in weird cubicle acoustics, you know, where you can hear someone's in-cube conversation 6 or 8 cubes away as if they're inside your head.
The Red Cross, as an organization, yes, is supposed to be color-blind, as it were. But military medics, wearing the Red Cross on White Background, are not Red Cross members, they're just medics. And if you're respecting the Geneva Conventions at that time, you don't shoot at them. Of course, that didn't stop medics from deliberately getting shot at (i.e., snipers) in every war.
Go into a US military hospital, and the main hallway will probably have plaques for CMH recipients, of whom more than a few were medics or corpsmen who did amazingly valiant things in the line of fire while carrying out their duties above and way beyond their job descriptions.
Hmm... I think I'd lump Ruby in more with Haskel & Lisp (you know, Ruby does have a lambda method...) It is far more functional than Python is...
I'd be shocked if Google isn't moving hundreds of TB's of bandwidth a day at least. Their bandwidth and electrical fees must be unbelivable.
But...doesn't Google pay for its internet connections like everyone else does? Hmm...methinksso. They probably already pay extra for extra double plus good connections to various points (but not up to the telcos' doors) that ensure availability of bandwidth and connectivity.
Google either goes out when it's spidering websites, or it waits for users to hit google.com.
Because the telco's don't own Google's access points (i.e., host their OC3 connections), the telcos are pissed?
No one is forcing the telcos to expand their infrastructure (except the cable companies). They are making a business investment, but why do they need to be guaranteed a profit in the current market?
Did this start because SBC bought AT&T, and now they own a good chunk of interstate network backbone?
Actually, the launching of the D21 off of an SR71 was canceled, yes. But they were dropped off of B52's a lot during the Vietnam War.
Wild Weasels came to be during the Viet Nam war. Originally they were F105 Thunderchiefs fitted with the electronics necesary to sniff out and identify various air defence radars being used by the NVA (other F105s in the package carried bombs or Shrike missiles), and flew in before the rest of the attack package.
The F4G versions were developed in the latter stages of US involvement in Viet Nam, and were operational through until the early 1990's.
Nevada Air Guard had one of the few remaining units at the Reno airport. So that was 93-94 or so that I saw them there.
Develop an aircraft that a human passenger could program with a destination and the plane delivers them without human assistance.
It's called GlobalStar. Oh, it doesn't have a passenger compartment. OK, so strip the electronics out and put them in a Gulfstream V.
Yes, PostGres SQL is much closer to standard ANSI-92 SQL than is MySQL SQL...
Angband is a derivative of Moria. Diablo is probably the ultimate realization of nethack/rogue/dungeon.
...which is why you get a job in the computer services department. Staff & academic research accounts are treated far differently than the accounts given to students.
The code to implement it could be rigorously analysed to identify ranges over which the inputs would be accepted and correct outputs given.
But, don't you still want to test it against inputs which aren't acceptable, to make sure that the code deals with the situation appropriately (throws a handled exception, etc)? So, you're still writing tests to verify expected inputs are handled correctly (i.e., return correct value), and incorrect inputs are handled gracefully.
Yeah, but a lot of CCDs can capture near-IR that the human eye cannot see, so not all information is lost...
Plus, unlike the phone, I don't have to call up and pay for some sort of external service (besides my computer) to actually get the digital photo where I can use it... How many camera phones let you hook up the phone to a USB or other interface and suck the phones off, vs having to e-mail the photos to yourself at $x.xx per photo?
That must be why microscope lenses are so crappy.
They are unless you're taking macros from no more than 1mm away, or it's dark.
The Arizona Highways magazine started taking digital photos from people with digital film planes for medium format cameras...
No. Such phages have been used as a medical treatment in Russia and Eastern Europe for quite some time. There have been several popular press (Natl Geographic, SciAm, Discover) articles about the science behind them. They basically go out to a pond or other standing body of water, and bioassay the water to see what kills the bacteria they want killed. Then they try to reduce it to the active material (i.e., phage) that does it, and they go from there. It is suprisingly developed.
These are naturally occuring phages, not genetically engineered super bugs or whatnot. Of course, they are unpatentable in the US, so no one will research them here, although the patent would be unenforcable. "We go out to so-and-so pond, centrifuge the water, isolate phage EB517, dry it and package it into gelatin capsules". Well, just about any grad student could do the same thing.... No bioreactors required, etc.
The US way will be of course to identify a phage that attacks, say, E. Coli H:0157 (and ONLY Ec H:0157! There are too many other beneficial subtypes of E. coli in human guts that shouldn't be killed off...), and then try to do some genetic engineering to it to deliver not only the phage's package but also say a clusterbomb of penicillin or some other antibiotic, to make it "more effective". Then they could generalize from there and get a patent for using the phage for attacking E. Coli bacteria, or even for using phages as antibiotics in humans and livestock. That might get them around the lack of novelness of using phages against bacteria, which already happens in nature.
Simply disliking the asshattedness of Monsanto w.r.t. GE seed around the world is not silly.
Yes, and then I think of all the other ones that offer little caveats in the small print on these so-called "price protections". The concept is sort of good in a retail environment, but if you went one day and filled your gas at $2.959/gal, and a couple of hours later, the price was down to $2.799/gal, do you think that if you go in with your receipt that the vendor is going to give you the difference back? Bah.
Some stores do it as a customer-friendly measure, but they leave themselves wiggle room, or have to have wiggle room in order to sell certain product lines, etc.
You pays your money, you takes your chances.
Lessee. OK, I have "unlimited" dialup. At about 1 MB/hr download rates, that's not too much fun. Remember when it used to cost extra to use a 14.4kbps modem vs 9600?
Now, I have 768kbps wireless SDSL, but there's still physical limits to how much I can download. But at least what I usually download daily (e-mail, AV updates, etc) is much faster than dialup.
If I wanted faster, then I'd have to move, but buying a T1 or higher dedicated line is always an option, too.
The telcos have in the past put on daily or monthly max download caps on DSL as well, which seems fine to me, except then they should not then get to market it as "unlimited" service. Just like "unlimited" DSL service that you are expected to "logout" when you're not using it or it logs you out after N hours of inactivity.
Hmm... I'd argue that at the time the only difference between the Unix "academics" and "hobbyists" was their location. Hobbyists worked at home, and the academics in their labs.
White, commercial cornish cross chickens are grown in big buildings. They live in/on their shit for 6-8 weeks. Doesn't matter if the chicken is going to KFC or to your grocery store. Fundamentally not very different at all. Unless you *KNOW* where the chicken you eat is coming from, despite whatever advertisements are on the packaging, you should assume that all of it, even that high-priced "free range" organic chicken is raised the same way.
At their designated day to meat their destiny, they're loaded up on the floor into a conveyer beltish device, and stuffed 6-8 at a time into a rack of cages. The cages are loaded onto a semitruck trailer.
Depending on the weather, some will die on the way to the plant (either too cold or too hot). Some will have broken legs (some of the chickens I caught had pretty soft bones), broken wings, bruises, etc. They're not treated all that gently.
When I caught chickens ('84-'87), you walked in, grabbed 3 birds (held them each by one leg) in each hand, and walked them up to the truck, where the loaders stuffed them into the cages on the truck. Sometimes the birds pissed you off (chicken wings flapping against your radius/ulna kind of hurts. have someone do it to you with a broomstick if you're a doubter), so you did some "inhumane" things to them. Yeah, I worked with a few bastards who did things like "hey, watch me step on this chicken's head. Isn't that funny?". Fuck that, at the very least, why are you taking the time to do that sick shit when there's 30,000 more birds to pack out?
Once at the plant, they're manually unloaded from the cages and hung onto the shackles of the processing machine. Part of that process sprays them off with water before dipping them into a tank of water with AC current in it to stun them, then their necks are cut by the machine (but the heads stay on, as they flap around much less than if their spinal cord is severed). For the smart ones that keep their necks out of the water and miss the knife, someone is there to cut it for them.
Next, they're dipped into hot bleachy water, and then they go into a drum plucker. The entrails are removed, the gizzard, heart and liver separated, and their shanks are removed. From there they either get cut into pieces, wrapped whole, or whatever else is deemed appropriate. Mechanical separator? Maybe...mmm chicken nuggets.
Sorry, I can't fault KFC anymore than I can fault Popeye's, Chick-Fil-A, McDonald's, Wendy's, or anyone else that sells chicken meat product. While KFC might contract with Perdue, Foster's, or whomever to get X tons of chicken meat a month, it's the GROWER and PROCESSOR who is responsible, not KFC.
But in an industry that goes through millions of animals a month, at a high rate, and is itself pretty hard on its employees, well...some bad things are going to happen.
Which is worse, Perdue locking all the emergency doors in its processing plants, prohibiting line workers from taking breaks (to the point where they just pee their pants), etc. (NC Perdue plant that caught on fire, where emergency exits were locked and several workers were killed because they couldn't get out...) or the occaisional chicken where someone gets all medieval on for some sick pleasure?
...and before that, nothing from the Republicans during Clinton's reigh was anything more than "not Clinton", to the point they actively tried to remove him from office.