"Mixing up static links that I explicitly placed with dynamic links publishde by a 3rd party is crazy"
Live bookmarks arent a replacement for regular bookmarks! In firefox if I want to bookmark a page statically I just right-click and hit "bookmark this page". This is a static bookmark. If I want a live bookmark, theres a little orange icon in the bottom right corner that appears if the site has an RSS feed, which I click and press "subscribe to $NAME_OF_RSS_FEED", which makes a bookmark which is dynamic. I agree that a sidebar would be better though, and I'm pretty sure an extension exists to do that already anyway.
Does the screen of the laptop come with a EULA saying if you don't agree with the terms, return it for a refund? Does your SATA connectors come with a EULA saying if you don't agree with the terms, return it for a refund?
Well here, they say that "According to Google, the 1U Linux box can handle 60 queries a minute...", although a quick look at the google appliance site doesnt say its a Linux box, although the article is over 3 years old.
I'm definatly not opposed to buying using an online system, I'm opposed to buying using an online system that won't obey what I tell it to do (on two different machines I tried, Steam kept sucking my bandwidth dry by downloading something even when it was set to never download updates). Hell I even recently paid for a CD key for an expansion to the MMORPG I subscribe to online and downloaded it, because it was quicker than waiting a week for it to be dispatched and come in the post - in that way online distribution was much more convenient than offline distribution.
Won't stop them charging insane amounts though... for example I bought a second hand Nokia N-gage which was missing the USB cable. Asked someone in Carphone warehouse how much they were, they typed it in on their computer at the desk (didn't have any on display) and it came up £29.99 (That's about $60!!), for a damn usb-device port to normal USB type A. Came home, looked on the net and found one for £1. I pity anyone who bought the £29.99 official one.
Not that I disagree with you (hell, I agree with you, what are they worried about? The music being shared online... oh like it is now?), but I doubt Napster have a choice - the media cartels like the RIAA probably won't license them to sell the music unless they put DRM on it.
In that case I'd better patent adblock for brains!
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Unfortunatly depending upon their contracts with their record label, the artist's "taping policies" can be meaningless, as their label could technically own the music meaning it's not the artist's to give away.
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I'm not sure but I think your thinking of MorphOS (or at least they have done the same thing), which is sort of an unofficial AmigaOS on PPC which runs "Classic Amiga" code. MorphOS also seems to be violating the GPL (not releasing sources to their modified GCC versions).
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IIRC its because I have bad memory. IIRC anyway.
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Probably getting so much coverage because CherryOS made absurb claims first of all (IIRC they claimed G5 emulation at 100% speed, which IIRC due to the alvitec unit makes pretty much impossible), now is so blatently commiting copyright infringement on PearPC's code (IIRC the first clue came from a screenshot of CherryOS' boot screen displaying a line of nonsense text which the PearPC team put in, and binary comparisons on the demo have backed that up), while claiming that they wrote the whole thing and dismissing claims in an absurd way (claiming it was entirely a coinsidence that the text mentioned earlier was the same) and constantly changing their story (IIRC first they said one person did it, then they said a dev had been fired who used GPL code and the code removed, then denied all accusations of GPL code completely).
Basically it gets so much coverage because it's so unbelievable how stupid they are.
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By the way, what does this have to do with Apple? They're both PowerPC emulators, the fact that it will run OSX is incidental."
Correct, however CherryOS specifically says on their web site that it is there in order to run OSX on x86 hardware. PearPC gives instructions on how to run OSX but doesn't really claim that it's whole purpose is to do so, which CherryOS does.
Ads fund most sites, but all ads aren't pop ups. If Firefox was to include adblock as default with a large configuration file for it I'd probably agree with you (to a certain extent anyway), but this just blocks pop-ups which are among the most annoying ads on web sites (only more annoying I can think of is the ones which make noises and don't have a mute button).
Now don't get me wrong, all those things are definatly a PITA, but the thing that annoys me the most is that unless the person who created the flash animation has been kind enough to include a mute button, you can't disable the sound without turning down the speakers altogether, or using some kind of audio firewall and muting the web browser.
I don't think the *AA have sued anyone for just downloading yet, just uploading - which essentially is distributing copies of it, but yeah I'd say downloading copies of the stuff you already own for convenience is a good point. The issue gets even more cloudy though if you use a protocal that you effectively don't have a choice about uploading on (like BitTorrent, where you either upload or get less than snail speed).
Depends how it's done though, if it just plain PDF but with javascript as has been suggested so far, then you are correct.
However, if for example the document is encrypted and they key is on a server which the PDF points to (and the server logs all IP addresses connecting to it to retrieve the key) then it will work at least for the first time you open it (unless of course we create another server or even p2p network with the keys on it for ebooks which the PDF viewer visits instead).
Dunno about mainland Europe, but here in the UK the only phones which I've heard are crippled are the ones the manufacturer has done - which I've only heard of happening with Sharp phones.
Well if RedHat had a monopoly on Operating Systems they'd be right to do so. IIRC anti-trust laws in Europe say that you cannot use a monopoly to attempt to gain a monopoly in another area - so they can't for example use a monopoly on their OS to gain a monopoly on media players, or web browsers.
When this trial in the EU started I thought it was pointless too - people want a media player with their OS, but recently I've realised that it was the correct thing to do - I don't know about the rest of Europe or the US, but here in the UK a lot of online media stores have sprung up, and guess who's DRM they use? Microsoft's, Microsoft's , Microsoft's and Microsoft's.
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Doh nevermind I thought you meant that the live bookmarks were a replacement for regular bookmarks.
"Mixing up static links that I explicitly placed with dynamic links publishde by a 3rd party is crazy"
Live bookmarks arent a replacement for regular bookmarks! In firefox if I want to bookmark a page statically I just right-click and hit "bookmark this page". This is a static bookmark. If I want a live bookmark, theres a little orange icon in the bottom right corner that appears if the site has an RSS feed, which I click and press "subscribe to $NAME_OF_RSS_FEED", which makes a bookmark which is dynamic. I agree that a sidebar would be better though, and I'm pretty sure an extension exists to do that already anyway.
Does the screen of the laptop come with a EULA saying if you don't agree with the terms, return it for a refund? Does your SATA connectors come with a EULA saying if you don't agree with the terms, return it for a refund?
Well here, they say that "According to Google, the 1U Linux box can handle 60 queries a minute...", although a quick look at the google appliance site doesnt say its a Linux box, although the article is over 3 years old.
I'm definatly not opposed to buying using an online system, I'm opposed to buying using an online system that won't obey what I tell it to do (on two different machines I tried, Steam kept sucking my bandwidth dry by downloading something even when it was set to never download updates). Hell I even recently paid for a CD key for an expansion to the MMORPG I subscribe to online and downloaded it, because it was quicker than waiting a week for it to be dispatched and come in the post - in that way online distribution was much more convenient than offline distribution.
Won't stop them charging insane amounts though... for example I bought a second hand Nokia N-gage which was missing the USB cable. Asked someone in Carphone warehouse how much they were, they typed it in on their computer at the desk (didn't have any on display) and it came up £29.99 (That's about $60!!), for a damn usb-device port to normal USB type A. Came home, looked on the net and found one for £1. I pity anyone who bought the £29.99 official one.
Not that I disagree with you (hell, I agree with you, what are they worried about? The music being shared online... oh like it is now?), but I doubt Napster have a choice - the media cartels like the RIAA probably won't license them to sell the music unless they put DRM on it.
In that case I'd better patent adblock for brains!
Unfortunatly depending upon their contracts with their record label, the artist's "taping policies" can be meaningless, as their label could technically own the music meaning it's not the artist's to give away.
I'm not sure but I think your thinking of MorphOS (or at least they have done the same thing), which is sort of an unofficial AmigaOS on PPC which runs "Classic Amiga" code. MorphOS also seems to be violating the GPL (not releasing sources to their modified GCC versions).
IIRC its because I have bad memory. IIRC anyway.
Probably getting so much coverage because CherryOS made absurb claims first of all (IIRC they claimed G5 emulation at 100% speed, which IIRC due to the alvitec unit makes pretty much impossible), now is so blatently commiting copyright infringement on PearPC's code (IIRC the first clue came from a screenshot of CherryOS' boot screen displaying a line of nonsense text which the PearPC team put in, and binary comparisons on the demo have backed that up), while claiming that they wrote the whole thing and dismissing claims in an absurd way (claiming it was entirely a coinsidence that the text mentioned earlier was the same) and constantly changing their story (IIRC first they said one person did it, then they said a dev had been fired who used GPL code and the code removed, then denied all accusations of GPL code completely).
Basically it gets so much coverage because it's so unbelievable how stupid they are.
" By the way, what does this have to do with Apple? They're both PowerPC emulators, the fact that it will run OSX is incidental."
Correct, however CherryOS specifically says on their web site that it is there in order to run OSX on x86 hardware. PearPC gives instructions on how to run OSX but doesn't really claim that it's whole purpose is to do so, which CherryOS does.
Ads fund most sites, but all ads aren't pop ups. If Firefox was to include adblock as default with a large configuration file for it I'd probably agree with you (to a certain extent anyway), but this just blocks pop-ups which are among the most annoying ads on web sites (only more annoying I can think of is the ones which make noises and don't have a mute button).
Now don't get me wrong, all those things are definatly a PITA, but the thing that annoys me the most is that unless the person who created the flash animation has been kind enough to include a mute button, you can't disable the sound without turning down the speakers altogether, or using some kind of audio firewall and muting the web browser.
Well, technically you can copy it, but it doesn't mean the copy will work.
I don't think the *AA have sued anyone for just downloading yet, just uploading - which essentially is distributing copies of it, but yeah I'd say downloading copies of the stuff you already own for convenience is a good point. The issue gets even more cloudy though if you use a protocal that you effectively don't have a choice about uploading on (like BitTorrent, where you either upload or get less than snail speed).
Depends how it's done though, if it just plain PDF but with javascript as has been suggested so far, then you are correct.
However, if for example the document is encrypted and they key is on a server which the PDF points to (and the server logs all IP addresses connecting to it to retrieve the key) then it will work at least for the first time you open it (unless of course we create another server or even p2p network with the keys on it for ebooks which the PDF viewer visits instead).
Well, I've got a USB powered cup warmer! Even has a through-port to another device.
"Is it criminal in the UK? How does that work, someone tells the police you copied their software so they arrest you? That sounds kind of scary."
IANAL but I think it's only criminal if you do it in large enough quantities and/or do it for profit, or something like that in the UK.
Ok now I'm wondering how the hell I forgot about them...
Well he did do the mini-series Taken, but that's about the only thing that springs to mind at the moment.
Both web site and tracker working for me at the moment.
Dunno about mainland Europe, but here in the UK the only phones which I've heard are crippled are the ones the manufacturer has done - which I've only heard of happening with Sharp phones.
Well if RedHat had a monopoly on Operating Systems they'd be right to do so. IIRC anti-trust laws in Europe say that you cannot use a monopoly to attempt to gain a monopoly in another area - so they can't for example use a monopoly on their OS to gain a monopoly on media players, or web browsers.
When this trial in the EU started I thought it was pointless too - people want a media player with their OS, but recently I've realised that it was the correct thing to do - I don't know about the rest of Europe or the US, but here in the UK a lot of online media stores have sprung up, and guess who's DRM they use? Microsoft's, Microsoft's , Microsoft's and Microsoft's.
And why do they use MS's DRM?
" We recommend Microsoft Windows Media Player for this, as it generally comes pre-loaded on new PCs"
"The Windows Media Player has been shipped with Windows-based PCs since 1997".
If this isn't using one monopoly to push another, I don't know what is.