If Opera gets rejected, they can start a discussion on how closed app markets may be. The EU might get interested and create a nice set of rules that allows Opera to get in each app market that sells in the EU, if Opera actually ships a good product.
Apple has a monopoly on their own platform. It is a nice gamble of Opera, if Apple accepts it then they are on the Iphone platform. If it is rejected, then it will be a landmark case on how the EU will react.
The EU will eventually come with rules anyway. If a company creates an app for the Iphone and Apple decides to create a similar app and removes the competing app, then it is a matter of time before such a company will ask the EU to put up rules against such behavior. This does not only apply to Apple, but for each company that runs an app store.
You mean WRC rally driver. Jutta Kleinschmidt won the Dakar rally and just as successful of even more successful than Mouton. The Dakar rally is harder and more rallying (no closed down roads) than the WRC and winning the Dakar is quite an achievement.
Android applications are writen in Java, with the shortcomings this brings with it (anybody want to write a game and see how the GC kills the framerate by processing stuff that has nothing to do with your application? it's *really* fun)
When I look at the game Armadillo Roll for Android, I must say that the frame rate is no problem. I was actually quite surprised that my HTC Hero could produce such graphics.
But it is still strange that Brein gets TPB banned in the Netherlands with the argument that TPB is convicted in Sweden, while the site is still up and running in Sweden. If TPB is allowed in Sweden to run the site until their appeal of the case, I would say that in the rest of the EU the site keeps running as well.
I wonder if TPB wins their appeal in Sweden, whether this Dutch conviction needs to trashed.
Something says you only read 1 line from the parliamentary report on copyright. One of the end proposals of the parliamentary copyright committee is that the industry switches to a licensing system and that customers buy a license for usage and download the media in whatever format the customer wants. If that system gets adopted, then the government ants to start punishing illegal downloading (thus without license of usage). The group also argued with such a system the levy on blank media will be abolished.
Why am I responding to an AC? Well I did read the report and it was not bad. The committee actually has a good idea about the problem. However getting the proposals to work, both technically and juridically is something that they have to work on.
The EC would start protesting if BMW sells its cars to customers and with buying the car the customer also has to buy the BMW maps, bags, or whatever item they can but their brand on. Only BMW would not present it this way, you just pay more for the car and get the rest for "free".
The EC has ruled that a browser is a separate part and therefore you should separately buy the OS and the browser.
Well, the EC has not made any demands yet on the issue of bundling browsers with Windows 7. So it is not possible to answer your question with a yes or no.
All the EC is doing is telling a company from another country how they have to create the software they sell.
The EC tells what the rules are if a company wants to sell on the European market. It happens with more then just software, the same applies to cars, electronics, etc.
The EU hasn't decided to remove IE from Windows 7, it is a move by Microsoft. The EU has not yet made a decision on how to deal with the misuse of the Windows monopoly on the browser market. With the Media player verdict of the EU, nothing actually changed and Neelie Kroes will probably come with a solution for the browser market that actually works.
By the way, if Microsoft has the opinion that selling an OS without a browser is not an option, they still have the option not to sell Windows 7 in the EU at all.
They are just leveling the playfield for browsers, giving browsers that are build in the EU a decent change to build up some market share.
The EU just gave their citizens a change to build their own browser and market it, while not being directly crushed by IE.
Does anyone knows how the Swiss law handles a wrongly done bidding? In the Netherlands and probably the rest of the EU, when a bidding was done against the law, the company that won the bidding may not enter the new bidding.
At my old university they had this situation with the coffee machines, there was only one company that had a machine that produced decent coffee and so they won the contract. However a mistake was made in the bidding (the bidding was nationally, instead of European, contracts worth more then a ceratin amount get a European bidding procedure) and the bidding had to be done again, however the only company that could produce decent coffee was excluded and the university got stuck with terrible coffee machines.
That depends in what way the Pirate Bay wins. If they win with the argument that they are not responsible for what their users do (the EU law that has been noted in their defense), then that law will not be changed very easily. Because if that law is being changed so that site admin are responsible, all internet forums in Europe can close down.
However, if the Pirate Bay chooses this defense, the verdict might be that they have to remove torrents that break copyright on request of the copyright holder (a most likely outcome, IMHO).
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Because you should only take software developers serious that have a beard.
If Opera gets rejected, they can start a discussion on how closed app markets may be. The EU might get interested and create a nice set of rules that allows Opera to get in each app market that sells in the EU, if Opera actually ships a good product.
Apple has a monopoly on their own platform. It is a nice gamble of Opera, if Apple accepts it then they are on the Iphone platform. If it is rejected, then it will be a landmark case on how the EU will react.
The EU will eventually come with rules anyway. If a company creates an app for the Iphone and Apple decides to create a similar app and removes the competing app, then it is a matter of time before such a company will ask the EU to put up rules against such behavior. This does not only apply to Apple, but for each company that runs an app store.
the most successful female rally driver to date.
You mean WRC rally driver. Jutta Kleinschmidt won the Dakar rally and just as successful of even more successful than Mouton. The Dakar rally is harder and more rallying (no closed down roads) than the WRC and winning the Dakar is quite an achievement.
No, traditionally a city became an official city after it did receive city rights. These city rights were issued by the monarch or bishop.
Lego normally only had weapons that were more then 100 years old, like the pirate guns.
Android applications are writen in Java, with the shortcomings this brings with it (anybody want to write a game and see how the GC kills the framerate by processing stuff that has nothing to do with your application? it's *really* fun)
When I look at the game Armadillo Roll for Android, I must say that the frame rate is no problem. I was actually quite surprised that my HTC Hero could produce such graphics.
I didn't know that saying no to being bought by Microsoft did count as trolling.
But it is still strange that Brein gets TPB banned in the Netherlands with the argument that TPB is convicted in Sweden, while the site is still up and running in Sweden. If TPB is allowed in Sweden to run the site until their appeal of the case, I would say that in the rest of the EU the site keeps running as well.
I wonder if TPB wins their appeal in Sweden, whether this Dutch conviction needs to trashed.
Something says you only read 1 line from the parliamentary report on copyright. One of the end proposals of the parliamentary copyright committee is that the industry switches to a licensing system and that customers buy a license for usage and download the media in whatever format the customer wants. If that system gets adopted, then the government ants to start punishing illegal downloading (thus without license of usage). The group also argued with such a system the levy on blank media will be abolished.
Why am I responding to an AC? Well I did read the report and it was not bad. The committee actually has a good idea about the problem. However getting the proposals to work, both technically and juridically is something that they have to work on.
You are a bit off with your example.
The EC would start protesting if BMW sells its cars to customers and with buying the car the customer also has to buy the BMW maps, bags, or whatever item they can but their brand on. Only BMW would not present it this way, you just pay more for the car and get the rest for "free".
The EC has ruled that a browser is a separate part and therefore you should separately buy the OS and the browser.
haven't they complied with the EC's demands?
Well, the EC has not made any demands yet on the issue of bundling browsers with Windows 7. So it is not possible to answer your question with a yes or no.
All the EC is doing is telling a company from another country how they have to create the software they sell.
The EC tells what the rules are if a company wants to sell on the European market. It happens with more then just software, the same applies to cars, electronics, etc.
The EU hasn't decided to remove IE from Windows 7, it is a move by Microsoft. The EU has not yet made a decision on how to deal with the misuse of the Windows monopoly on the browser market. With the Media player verdict of the EU, nothing actually changed and Neelie Kroes will probably come with a solution for the browser market that actually works. By the way, if Microsoft has the opinion that selling an OS without a browser is not an option, they still have the option not to sell Windows 7 in the EU at all.
Gambling profits, if you win the lottery you must pay the gambling tax (kansspelbelasting in Dutch). The tax when you inherit something. Owning a dog.
They are just leveling the playfield for browsers, giving browsers that are build in the EU a decent change to build up some market share. The EU just gave their citizens a change to build their own browser and market it, while not being directly crushed by IE.
Does anyone knows how the Swiss law handles a wrongly done bidding? In the Netherlands and probably the rest of the EU, when a bidding was done against the law, the company that won the bidding may not enter the new bidding. At my old university they had this situation with the coffee machines, there was only one company that had a machine that produced decent coffee and so they won the contract. However a mistake was made in the bidding (the bidding was nationally, instead of European, contracts worth more then a ceratin amount get a European bidding procedure) and the bidding had to be done again, however the only company that could produce decent coffee was excluded and the university got stuck with terrible coffee machines.
I'll doubt it is this one. Lynx is a pretty safe browser you know.
Well my posts of today did already make a mess of my posting archive.
Lets hope so.
ME TOO!
Maybe you can cheat on that one. Which probably gives you the achievement The Cheater.
Well the area of Maastricht is the highest we've got.
That depends in what way the Pirate Bay wins. If they win with the argument that they are not responsible for what their users do (the EU law that has been noted in their defense), then that law will not be changed very easily. Because if that law is being changed so that site admin are responsible, all internet forums in Europe can close down. However, if the Pirate Bay chooses this defense, the verdict might be that they have to remove torrents that break copyright on request of the copyright holder (a most likely outcome, IMHO).