It still makes absolutely no sense. The OLPC is not a song or book or creative work of any type, so I fail to see how copyright can possibly be applicable.
Besides, the wording of the article links the patent claim to the supposed copyright-infringement suit. As the grandparent poster points out, this makes no sense.
If you're having kernel panics, you either have some weird haxies left over from Tiger, or you have defective hardware (probably RAM or the hard disk) and should get Apple to replace it. That's almost always the case with OS X, with the rare exception of consistently reproducible kernel panics under unusual circumstances.
We have a few Macs in my house, both Intel and PPC-based, and not a single crash or kernel panic yet.
(By the way, who cares about repairing disk permissions?)
"It's about using two extra shift keys for the non-ASCII characters. On his keyboard, he calls them "Shift2" and "Ng". This is a nice way to do languages that use the latin alphabet with a few abnormal extra characters."
You probably know this, but that's exactly how you type additional Latin characters on a Mac. Option and Option-Shift give you quick access to letters like Ç, ß, Ø, Å, etc.
Prior art? (I think patents are stupid anyway, but still...)
Spiders, humbug. I have a pet crayfish, and they really take the cake -- more legs and pincers and feelers and eyestalks and other weird parts than you can shake a stick at.
Mine's cute, too. When he's in a chipper mood, he spends the day rushing from one side of his tank to the other, spreading his arms and opening his pincers as widely as possible to menace whoever's closest to him in the room.
Forget the Grand Unification Theory, we need a model that will convert values between Libraries of Congress, football fields, Volkswagen vans, and the state of Rhode Island.
Agreed. Language input switching is instant in Leopard (heck, I could never even get it to work right in XP), and those pop-up Japanese dictionaries are invaluable. I use them daily.
I have acrophobia (fear of heights), so I understand completely. When I'm in a phobia-triggering situation, the effect not merely mental. I feel weak and dizzy, with and odd buzzing sensation going down my spine and other parts of my body.
I don't like the idea of prison for this kind of criminal (well, any kind actually). It does no one any good, aside from satisfying the schadenfreude of Slashdot readers.
What he *should* be made to do is to repay every single one of his victims, double his theft plus interest. If that enslaves him to his victims for the rest of his life, so be it. No one benefits from the government collecting some fines, and the fraudster spending the rest of his life behind bars becoming a drug addict or doing whatever else it takes to survive there.
The problem is Photoshop's fundamental interface approach: it's modal, so the program is constantly waiting for tasks to finish or dialog boxes to go away. Maybe that was good enough in the System 7 days, but it's lousy design nowadays. Poor design choices make me grit my teeth and grumble every time I use an Adobe product.
A well-designed app today should not be modal; it should be multi-threaded, be capable of performing multiple tasks at once, and never bug the user with confirmation dialogs when an undo function is sufficient.
'The true, original purpose of trademark law (which I am aware I'm the first to bring up) is to protect the consumer from products that are designed to fool you into believing you are purchasing a product from somebody other than the true source. That is why the touchstone of trademark infringement is "Would a reasonable consumer confuse the two products?'
It's sad, but you almost deserve a medal for pointing that out these days. A lot of people seem to be infected with the idea that a trademark is some "property" that companies race to own first, and use as a basis of lawsuits for keeping competitors from accurately describing their products.
I'm quite surprised... someone in the Linux world finally gets it! I gave up Linux for OS X a long time ago, but it would be nice to see some flavour of Linux adopt a sensible, user-friendly way of installing software.
I could be wrong, but I doubt it's possible to input Nigeria's major languages (Hausa, Yoruba, etc.) under Linux-- certainly not in a default Mandriva installation. (Back when I tried out the distro, I couldn't even get Japanese working.)
It's pretty clear there will never be a process for removing names from the list or auditing the list.
However, if you Americans elect Ron Paul as president, the list will just disappear altogether, along with the secret military prisons and the warrantless wiretaps.
It seems to me that refresh rates are not too important when it comes to the major advantages of electronic paper, namely that (1) it is eventually going to be a great replacement for many uses of normal paper, and (2) it only consumes energy when the image is refreshed, so a single battery charge can be used to view static text and images for a long time.
"It would seem a lot of the logic behind the shuttle was to get the gear and the people there on one transport."
Besides, it's the only current space vehicle that you can realistically do a spacewalk outside of, and then demand that someone open the pod-bay doors for you.
"some security experts such as Bruce Schneier have dismissed steganography as too... conspicuous."
Since being inconspicuous is the very definition of steganography, something tells me Mr. Schneier doesn't have a firm handle on the concept, and if there were many properly-executed uses of steganography in the wild, he wouldn't have noticed them.
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It still makes absolutely no sense. The OLPC is not a song or book or creative work of any type, so I fail to see how copyright can possibly be applicable.
Besides, the wording of the article links the patent claim to the supposed copyright-infringement suit. As the grandparent poster points out, this makes no sense.
A more interesting story might be how Slashdot "scavenges" yesterday's stories for reposting tomorrow!
If you're having kernel panics, you either have some weird haxies left over from Tiger, or you have defective hardware (probably RAM or the hard disk) and should get Apple to replace it. That's almost always the case with OS X, with the rare exception of consistently reproducible kernel panics under unusual circumstances.
We have a few Macs in my house, both Intel and PPC-based, and not a single crash or kernel panic yet.
(By the way, who cares about repairing disk permissions?)
While your post wasn't half bad, I see why you picked that nickname.
"It's about using two extra shift keys for the non-ASCII characters. On his keyboard, he calls them "Shift2" and "Ng". This is a nice way to do languages that use the latin alphabet with a few abnormal extra characters."
You probably know this, but that's exactly how you type additional Latin characters on a Mac. Option and Option-Shift give you quick access to letters like Ç, ß, Ø, Å, etc.
Prior art? (I think patents are stupid anyway, but still...)
Spiders, humbug. I have a pet crayfish, and they really take the cake -- more legs and pincers and feelers and eyestalks and other weird parts than you can shake a stick at.
Mine's cute, too. When he's in a chipper mood, he spends the day rushing from one side of his tank to the other, spreading his arms and opening his pincers as widely as possible to menace whoever's closest to him in the room.
I'm in the same boat as you. I live in Japan and was planning a short 3-day vacation this January, but the fingerprinting thing sucks.
And most of Bush's potential replacements are as bad or worse, it appears. Ron Paul excepted.
Forget the Grand Unification Theory, we need a model that will convert values between Libraries of Congress, football fields, Volkswagen vans, and the state of Rhode Island.
Agreed. Language input switching is instant in Leopard (heck, I could never even get it to work right in XP), and those pop-up Japanese dictionaries are invaluable. I use them daily.
I have acrophobia (fear of heights), so I understand completely. When I'm in a phobia-triggering situation, the effect not merely mental. I feel weak and dizzy, with and odd buzzing sensation going down my spine and other parts of my body.
I don't like the idea of prison for this kind of criminal (well, any kind actually). It does no one any good, aside from satisfying the schadenfreude of Slashdot readers.
What he *should* be made to do is to repay every single one of his victims, double his theft plus interest. If that enslaves him to his victims for the rest of his life, so be it. No one benefits from the government collecting some fines, and the fraudster spending the rest of his life behind bars becoming a drug addict or doing whatever else it takes to survive there.
The problem is Photoshop's fundamental interface approach: it's modal, so the program is constantly waiting for tasks to finish or dialog boxes to go away. Maybe that was good enough in the System 7 days, but it's lousy design nowadays. Poor design choices make me grit my teeth and grumble every time I use an Adobe product.
A well-designed app today should not be modal; it should be multi-threaded, be capable of performing multiple tasks at once, and never bug the user with confirmation dialogs when an undo function is sufficient.
Hm, with the increased squirting potential of high-energy capacitors, I predict the Zune will be one of the first devices to adopt them.
'The true, original purpose of trademark law (which I am aware I'm the first to bring up) is to protect the consumer from products that are designed to fool you into believing you are purchasing a product from somebody other than the true source. That is why the touchstone of trademark infringement is "Would a reasonable consumer confuse the two products?'
It's sad, but you almost deserve a medal for pointing that out these days. A lot of people seem to be infected with the idea that a trademark is some "property" that companies race to own first, and use as a basis of lawsuits for keeping competitors from accurately describing their products.
Yes, but with numerous special letters that require custom keyboard layouts and Unicode fonts.
I'm quite surprised... someone in the Linux world finally gets it! I gave up Linux for OS X a long time ago, but it would be nice to see some flavour of Linux adopt a sensible, user-friendly way of installing software.
I could be wrong, but I doubt it's possible to input Nigeria's major languages (Hausa, Yoruba, etc.) under Linux-- certainly not in a default Mandriva installation. (Back when I tried out the distro, I couldn't even get Japanese working.)
It's pretty clear there will never be a process for removing names from the list or auditing the list.
However, if you Americans elect Ron Paul as president, the list will just disappear altogether, along with the secret military prisons and the warrantless wiretaps.
It seems to me that refresh rates are not too important when it comes to the major advantages of electronic paper, namely that (1) it is eventually going to be a great replacement for many uses of normal paper, and (2) it only consumes energy when the image is refreshed, so a single battery charge can be used to view static text and images for a long time.
"It would seem a lot of the logic behind the shuttle was to get the gear and the people there on one transport."
Besides, it's the only current space vehicle that you can realistically do a spacewalk outside of, and then demand that someone open the pod-bay doors for you.
Not to mention this quote:
... conspicuous."
"some security experts such as Bruce Schneier have dismissed steganography as too
Since being inconspicuous is the very definition of steganography, something tells me Mr. Schneier doesn't have a firm handle on the concept, and if there were many properly-executed uses of steganography in the wild, he wouldn't have noticed them.
Why not? I mean, if you buy or borrow a book from someone, and it has some passages copied from another source, why would you be responsible?
Iraqis?
According to copyright law, whoever took the photo holds the copyright to that photo.
(Note that I think both copyright and trademarks as currently governed by law are stupid.)